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Austin-East dance company members perform a moving routine to “Glory” during the Knox County Schools magnet school showcase held at The Standard.

Company member Samiya Allmon dances with fl owing lines and grace during the piece. More showcase pictures are featured on page 6. Photo by R. White

Craft fairHandmade crafts will be

featured in a fair at Alice Bell Baptist Church on the weekend of October 23-24.

The fair opens on Friday from 4-8 p.m. Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will be staged in the church ministry center at 3305 Alice Bell Road.

Vendors already signed up for the fair will sell walking sticks, knitted items and other handmade crafts, as well as Avon products and PhotoGem jewelry. A food court will also be available.

Vendors interesting in show-ing at the fair can get more information from the church offi ce at 865-522-0137. Pro-ceeds will benefi t the church building fund.

– Bill Dockery

To page 3

By Betsy PickleThe difference between

open and closed seems, well, open and shut. But even though Open Streets Knoxville this Sunday will close down – to motorized vehicles – a mile of Central Street, businesses along the corridor are looking forward to the expected infl ux of cyclists and pe-destrians.

“I’m very excited about it,” says Peggy Hambright, owner of Magpies Bakery, 846 N. Central St. “I think it’s going to be great for this corridor.

“It’s a great way to get people down here to see all the new stuff that’s been popping up in the last year or two.”

Jay Nations, co-owner of Raven Records & Rari-ties, 1200 N. Central St., says that having the street fi lled with pedestrians means his store has a good

Businesses open to concept of

Jay Nations and Jack Stiles, co-owners of Raven Records

& Rarities, hope Open Streets Knoxville will benefi t busi-

nesses as well as bicyclists.

Open Streets

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chance to make an impres-sion.

“People tend to poke their head in a shop if they’re walking by more than if they’re in a car,” says Nations, tongue only halfway in cheek.

Open Streets, which takes place 1-4 p.m. Sun-

day, was organized by Bike Walk Knoxville and in-spired by similar cyclist/pedestrian events that have taken root in cities across the United States and throughout Europe. More than a street festival, it aims to encourage physi-cal activity and consider-

ation of alternative trans-portation, share safety tips and promote local busi-nesses.

Many businesses will have special activities in addition to their regular goods and services.

There will be plenty of room to move, along with

guidance in doing so, with everything from a bike ro-deo and bocce ball to Tai Chi demos and yoga class-es. Several vendors will have bikes for rent.

Most activities will be family friendly, and nearly

By Sandra ClarkWhat happens when 102,000-

plus UT football fans tweet or IM or email their unique perspective on a scoring play or game-saving stop? Why it goes right through for AT&T customers thanks to the company’s recent enhance-ments to the Dis-tributed Antenna

System (DAS) at Neyland stadium. With approximately 194 anten-

nas spread throughout the stadium, connectivity at Neyland is roughly equivalent in size to cover a city the size of Morristown, says Alan Hill, AT&T’s regional director for exter-

nal affairs. He spoke last week to the Farragut Rotary.

“Smartphones are now an essen-tial part of the game-day experience for fans,” said Hill, a UT alum.

“We know that being able to send photos and texts and check scores from around the country is impor-tant to fans in the stands.” Engi-neers continue to tweak the system, which was installed this fall.

A DAS is a network of several small antennas designed to en-hance wireless service within an area or building. DAS technology helps improve customers’ wireless service by shortening the distance a call or text must travel.

Hill talked about AT&T’s work during the NCAA basketball play-offs. “You know how they bring in

those raised fl oors? Well, we in-stalled antennas under them when the Final Four was held in Dallas.”

Other facts shared by Hill: ■ In 1952, AT&T had just 21

outdoor phones in Knoxville. ■ In 1954, special circuits were

installed to bring teletype feeds to the News Sentinel.

■ In 1962, the fi rst UT game on TV was broadcast nationally. AT&T was involved, and the oppo-nent was Alabama.

■ At one point nationally, about 450,000 customers per month were switching away from tradi-tional land lines.

■ There’s been a 100,000 per-cent increase in mobile data traffi c in the last eight years on the AT&T mobile network.

■ AT&T will use $26 million in Connect America Funds per yearover the next six years to supple-ment efforts to expand ruralbroadband in Tennessee.

■ By 2020, AT&T’s vision is to lead in mobilizing the world usingwearable technology, and by con-necting homes, cars and cities.

■ Business opportunities are plentiful in this mobile world.

“So, what did you learn?” askedHill at the meeting’s end.

Gulp! “Uh, you talked so fast itwas hard to take notes, but I cameaway believing AT&T is dynamic –leading the technology curve. Buystock!” I answered.

Hill awed the folks at FarragutRotary. He’s a great speaker for yourcivic group (Alan.L.Hill@att.com).

AT&T means business, wires Neyland

Alan Hill

It’s Alabama weekDon’t choose Saturday as

your wedding day. Try not die between now and then. The preacher might not be avail-able.

This is Alabama week.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 4

Fourth and Gill to host ARToberfest

The Historic Fourth and Gill neighborhood invites the community to ARToberfest 2-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. The celebration takes place on Morgan Street, between Gratz Street and Third Avenue near Central United Methodist Church.

Designed to engage the whole family, the festivities include a showcase featuring over 50 art vendors, live music by the Knoxville Polka Kings, Misty Mountain String Band, and Uptown Stomp, artistry by the Cattywampus Puppet Council, a chalk walk, geocach-ing, and the Tennessee at Ala-bama game on the big screen.

The standard fare is brats (meat and vegetarian), beer, wine and non-alcoholic bever-age options.

Tickets cost $10, and an advanced ticket purchase comes with one free beverage of choice; kids 12 years old and under are admitted free of charge.

Tickets at artoberfestknox.com or Three Rivers Market, 1100 N. Central Street; Bliss, 24 Market Square; Bliss Home, 29 Market Square and 7240 Kingston Pike; or K Brew, 1328 N. Broadway, prior to the event.

Profi ts go toward public art, ARTreach (a nonprofi t that provides creative opportunities to youth), and maintenance and beautifi cation in Fourth and Gill.

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health & lifestyles

You care, but you’re not sure how to show it. That’s how most people feel when they learn that someone they know has cancer.

You don’t have to be elo-quent, and it’s not your job to make everything better. Just offer encouragement, speak from the heart, and express your concern.

Here are some examples of appropriate things to say:

■ I’m so sorry you’re going through this. ■ I’m here for you. ■ How are you? ■ How can I help? ■ If you ever want to talk, I’m here. ■ You are in my thoughts and prayers. ■ I’m not sure what to say, but I want you to know that I care.Avoid � ippant remarks

that may come across as dis-missing the seriousness of the disease, and instead of initi-ating humor, take your cues from her. Only share the news of her diagnosis with others if you have her permission. Re-spect that it’s her story to tell.

Yes, you really do need a mammogramOctober is Breast Cancer

Awareness Month, and the color pink is everywhere as a symbol of the importance of � ghting the most common kind of cancer in America. Yet with all the efforts to raise awareness about breast can-cer, and the importance of getting a yearly mammogram starting at age 40, many women still won’t.

Gayle Roulier, MD, a fellow-ship-trained mammographer, thinks the main reason women still resist getting those mam-mograms is because of plain and simple fear. “It’s unfortunate that many women do not come for an-nual screening mammograms be-cause they’re afraid,” says Roulier.

“Some people are afraid of the results, some people are afraid it’s going to be a painful process,” Roulier explains. “It can be un-comfortable for some women, especially if they originally have tender breasts; maybe they have cyclic tenderness, but it’s a very important thing to do, annually.”

Roulier practices at Thompson Comprehensive Breast Center, a department of Fort Sanders Re-gional Medical Center. She empha-sizes that the earlier breast cancer is diagnosed, the more successful treatment will be. Mammography can detect cancer before it’s clini-cally evident – before a patient can feel it.

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know it’s there,” Roulier says. “Mammography allows us to di-agnose breast cancer at an earlier stage, and treatment can be more successful because of that.”

Roulier admits there is some discomfort involved in a mam-mogram, but it only lasts for a few seconds. Those few seconds of dis-comfort can make a big difference in the course of a woman’s life.

“It’s over pretty quick, and most women don’t have a problem with it at all,” Roulier says.

The three screening methods most commonly used are mam-mography, ultrasound, and MRI. Roulier says mammography is still the best method of screening for most women. An MRI may be rec-ommended for a woman who has a

higher risk of breast cancer, and it is used in addition to mammogra-phy for a closer look.

Ultrasound traditionally has been more of a problem-solving tool. When something out of the ordinary shows up on a mammo-gram, there’s no way to tell if it’s � uid or solid. Fluid masses in the breast are called “cysts,” and cysts are not cancer.

“So when we see something on the mammogram, and we don’t know if it’s � uid or solid, ultimate-ly ultrasound helps us solve that problem, because an ultrasound can help us distinguish a � uid mass from a solid mass.”

Roulier says more women are beginning to use ultrasound as a screening tool, especially with the legislation that’s been passed in Tennessee and other states requiring mammographers to make women with dense breasts aware of their options. “Basical-ly, the law says that if a woman has dense breast tissue, we are, by law, obligated to inform her that her tissue is dense, and that cancer may be harder to detect,” Roulier says, so some women opt for getting both a mammogram and ultrasound upfront.

One thing Roulier wants ev-ery woman to know is that she and the other fellowship-trained mammographers with Covenant Health are committed to screen-ing processes that are in the best

Appropriate responses to cancer

What do I say?

Early detection is the key

Finding breast cancer early is important for suc-cessful treatment. The American Cancer Society has several recommendations for early breast cancer de-tection:

■ Breast self-exam (BSE): Most health care providers recommend women start doing this monthly in their 20s, although it’s important to realize many women � nd lumps accidentally as well. Look for lumps, bumps, skin irritation or dimpling, nipple pain or retraction, redness or scaling of the nipple, or discharge. Tell your health care provider about any changes, but remember, most breast changes do not mean cancer.

■ Clinical breast exam: Have this done once a year by a trained clinician.

■ Mammogram: Most doctors still recom-mend an annual mammogram after the age of 40, although some recent recommendations say it may be safe to wait longer. Mammograms can detect cancerous lumps too small to feel. Talk to your doctor about the bene� ts and limitations of mammograms.

Risks for breast cancer:

According to the American Cancer Society, some women have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. These include women who have the following:

■ A close relative (mother, sister) who had the disease.

■ The BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, or have a close relative who has the gene.

■ Radiation therapy to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30.

■ Certain rare medical disorders. ■ A personal history of breast cancer. ■ Extremely dense breasts or unevenly dense

breasts when viewed by mammograms.

interest of each individual wom-an.

“There is no normal mammo-gram. There is no normal breast,” Roulier says. “Every woman is built differently, and each woman has a unique pattern.”

Thompson Comprehensive Breast Center provides complete breast health services, including breast health education, screen-ing, diagnostics and treatment planning. The breast center is certi� ed by the American College of Radiology as a Breast Center of Excellence.

These services are only avail-able in certi� ed facilities that have received FDA approval to offer them. For more information, or to schedule a mammo-gram, call Thompson Cancer

Survival Center at (865) 541-1450, or log on to thompson-cancer.com/breastcenter.

Can I Aff ord It?Another reason some women

may hesitate about scheduling anannual screening mammogrammay be a fear that it will be too ex-pensive. But the cost of screeningmammograms is covered by mostinsurance, without copayments ordeductibles, and a doctor’s referralis not required. Talk to your insur-ance provider to con� rm cost andcoverage.

If you are a woman age 40 orolder, Medicare will pay for annualscreening mammograms. It pays forone baseline mammogram for fe-male bene� ciaries between the agesof 35 and 39, with no deductible.

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Open Streets From page 1

everything but food is free.“We’re going to set up a

tent and have some games,” says Hambright. She’s thought of “a cupcake walk where you have to hold it in a spoon or an old-fashioned cakewalk and give away some stuff.”

For those who want calo-ries to burn off, restaurants from the Old City to Happy Holler – even ones usually closed on Sundays – will be open, and a number of food trucks will set up along the route.

Not surprisingly, Mat-thew Kellogg, president of the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club, which meets monthly at Central Flats & Taps, says the AMBC is fi red up about Open Streets.

“We are going to basical-ly do a big arts and crafts project,” he says of their “Urban Forest” site, near the railroad tracks in the Old City.

“We’re going to bring some of the forest to the streets and encourage peo-ple to stop with us for a little bit on their journey up and down Central Street.”

Kellogg hopes this isn’t a one-time event.

“We’d love to see it hap-

pen more often,” he says. “We think it’s good for folks, and we think it’s good for business.

“We’re really, really proud of Bike Walk Knox-ville for all that they’ve done in the past year, pulling the (Tennessee) Bike S ummit together and also getting this on the schedule and making it happen. It’s huge. It’s great.”

It’s also just one step in Knoxville’s quest to become a bike-friendly city.

“I think it’ll take a while to change the minds of all the people who aren’t used to driving around bicycles,” says Hambright. “And it scares me, the sort of ag-gression of some vehicle op-erators against bikers, like they don’t have a right to be on the road.”

Jack Stiles, Raven’s other co-owner, says he’s looking forward to Open Streets and is in favor of promoting cy-cling.

“If I lived in a city that was gridded out and it was comfortable to ride a bike back and forth, I’d do it in a heartbeat,” he says.

He defi nitely sees the need for alternative trans-portation and “public trans-

portation that makes sense.”“We’re going to have to

get away from fossil fuels eventually,” he says.

Info: openstreetsknoxville.com

Northgate Terrace and The Manor at Northgate are happening places these days. The party started Oct. 7 with an outdoor picnic and fundraiser. The community was invited to join residents for lunch and shopping. Fellowship North Church volunteers served food and helped with set-up.

Partyall week

Cindy Taylor

Housecall Medical of-fered free blood-pressure checks, and other business-es were present to share info with seniors.

Goodwill Industries set up a clothing booth to make shopping for clothes easy for residents, and Renee Singh put together a jewelry booth with earrings, brace-

Fellowship North church mem-

ber Grayson Rossini puts on a

dance show for Northgate resi-

dents.

Northgate residents Susie Payne and Island Hansard do the

twist.

lets, necklaces and much more.

Funds from the lunch and shopping event go to supplement supportive services at The Manor at North-gate.

Later in the week, Fellowship North Church hosted a rock-in’ party with food and music in the back courtyard. AM Station band was on site with

swingin’ oldies. Residents danced the night away with songs like “Rock Around the Clock” and “Only You.”

Decorations were fall themed and lent a festive air to the beautiful evening. Volunteers from the church brought plenty of snacks and drinks to keep resi-dents warm and fed. Volun-teers from Fellowship North Church and Fountain City United Methodist Church offered their services to

work on walkers that need-ed repair.

“This is a great party,” said one resident. “It was so much fun to hear some oldies and have a chance to dance with each other and some of the

church members.”Nearby neighborhood

residents dropped in when they heard the great music, then stayed to listen and join the fun. Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.

com.

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: 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 Neighbor-

hood 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

w.emmert@att.net.

■ First District Democrats meet

each fi rst Monday, Burlington

Branch Library, 4614 Asheville

Highway. Info: Harold Middle-

brook, haroldmiddlebrook@

gmail.com; Mary Wilson,

marytheprez@yahoo.com.

■ Historic Fourth & Gill

Neighborhood Organization

meets 6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, Central UMC, 201

Third Ave. Info: Liz Upchurch,

898-1809, lizupchurch1@

gmail.com.

■ 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.

■ 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.

■ 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

mjp1101@aol.com.

■ Town Hall East. Info: Eston

Williams, 406-5412 or eston_

williams@yahoo.com

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dent Demassi Wilson shows

off a book purchased from

the school book fair. Photos by R. White

By Ruth WhiteCommunity Hero Night

at Green Magnet Academy wasn’t quite what I was ex-pecting when I attended. I was thinking everyday people dressed in hero cos-tumes. What I saw was su-perheroes dressed as every-day people.

The night kicked off with students and parents being able to drop by the library and check out the school book fair. Librarian Tommie Branscum was on hand to assist and ring up purchas-es for students. Branscum loves the book fair because of the excitement it gener-ates among students. “It re-ally makes me happy to see kids so excited about books and reading,” she said. The excitement often trickles down to the parents as they remember experiencing the book fair when they were children.

Guests gathered in the gym for a special night to celebrate individuals who once attended Green. Prin-cipal Dexter Murphy, al-though not a Green alum-nus, attended college at the University of Tennessee with P.J. Alexander. They

What’s your superpower?

Green Magnet Academy principal Dexter Murphy and friend/former Green student P.J. Alexan-

der play for the group during a Community Heroes celebration.

Knox County math supervisor

Gary Petko attended (then)

Green School.

met in band where Alexan-der helped Murphy learn the ropes.

Alexander attended the school when it was Green School and remembers a man from Knoxville Col-lege bringing instruments to the school for students to try. Alexander’s father was a trumpet player, and he wanted to do well to im-press his dad. Learning to

play the trumpet at Green set Alexander on a path that would lead to a future fi lled with music.

Knox County Schools math supervisor Gary Petko also attended Green School. He fondly remembers his math teacher, Mrs. Scott, who comforted him on the fi rst day of school, telling him that everything would be OK. He showed the group

a green Matchbox car he received for good behavior while at Green. Petko se-lected the car after earning tokens. He has kept the car for 45 years to remind him

of the impact Scott and the school made on him. His hope is to have the same positive impact on someone that his math teacher had on him.

Murphy plans to host other community hero events to focus on the posi-tive learning environment at Green.

4 • OCTOBER 21, 2015 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERSThe Knoxville Challenger, set for Nov. 8-15 at

the UT Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center, is calling for volunteers to help with the region’s largest professional tennis event. Must be 15 or older; hours are fl exible. Event benefi ts Helen Ross McNabb. Info/registration: knoxchallenger.com.

CALL FOR VENDORSChrist UMC is seeking vendors for its fall arts and

crafts festival, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Info/application: bsstair@comcast.net or Sherry, 776-1100.

CALL TO ARTISTSThe Knoxville Watercolor Society is

currently accepting membership applications for artists who work in watercolor and other water mediums. Applications for jurying process are due Oct. 27. Info/applications for jurying process: knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

THROUGH SATURDAY, OCT. 24Tickets on sale for the Hoot ’N Holler Autumn

Express train excursions. Schedule: 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 24 and 31; 1 and 4 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. Info/tickets: threeriversrambler.com.

THROUGH SATURDAY, OCT. 31Costume shop inventory reduction sale, 2-7

p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 2-5 p.m. Saturdays, Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge. Full costumes, partial costumes, vintage, formal, bridal, holiday and many one-of-a-kind items available. Nothing over $15. Info: 482-9999 or orplayhouse.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21Healthy U: Women’s Health, 2 p.m., Humana

Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/RSVP: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, OCT. 22“Getting Your House in Order,” 10-11 a.m.,

Tennova Health & Fitness Center, 7540 Dannaher Drive. Free end-of-life planning seminar. Limited space; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.

FRIDAY, OCT. 23Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub &

Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009

Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 23-24Craft fair, 4-8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, Alice Bell Baptist Church, 3305 Alice Bell Road. Jewelry, handmade items, sport cards and collectables, and more. Info: alicebellbaptistchurch.org.

Friends Mini Used-Book Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: knoxfriends.org.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 23-252015 Knoxville Horror Film Fest. Friday and

Saturday, Regal Downtown West; Sunday, Market Square’s Scruffy City Hall. Weekend passes: $60. Info: knoxvillehorrorfest.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 23-NOV. 8“Quoth The Raven: Tales Of Poe,”

Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays; 1 p.m. show only on Halloween. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 24Community carnival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Highland

Baptist Church, 6014 Babelay Road. Games, food, prizes. Everything free. Info: 216-2974 or 742-4184.

Craft fair, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Fountain City Lions Club building. Handmade items, quilt items, jewelry, wreaths, crocheted and embroidered articles, candy bouquets and more. Info: 689-9647.

Craft sale/fall fest/trunk or treat, Trinity

UMC, 5613 Western Ave. Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. features bake sale, homemade vegetable beef soup to go, hot tamales and chili, home canned items, holiday crafts and decorations; fall fest, 4-7 p.m. featuring games, hamburgers and hot dogs, music; trunk or treat, 7 p.m.

“Don’t Treat Your Soil Like Dirt: Prep Now for Your Spring Planting,” 10:30 a.m.-noon, Demonstration Garden at All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Speakers: Master Gardener Barbara O’Neil. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-2340.

Fall gift and craft fair hosted by the Powell and Halls Lions clubs, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Powell Auto Auction, 6729 Pleasant Ridge Road.

Free day of cartoons, costumes and tours, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Children 12 and under are invited to come dressed in family-friendly Halloween costumes. Info: tennesseetheatre.com.

Harvest festival, 5-7 p.m., Emerald Avenue UMC, 1620 N. Central Ave. (Oakwood Community). Turkey Dinner, baked goods, used book sale. Info: 523-7150.

Kick-off event for the new Thunder Road Wine Trail, noon-5 p.m., Spout Spring Estates Winery and Vineyard, 430 Riddle Lane, Blaine. Featuring: classic cars, corn-hole games, free wine tasting, local food from Cruze Dairy Farms and Jason’s World Famous Bar-B-Que, local artisans. Info: ThunderRoadWineTrail.com.

Singing, 7 p.m., Ailor Dale Baptist Church, 351 Beard Valley Road, Maynardville. Featured singers: Crossroads and Rogers Memorial Baptist Church. Everyone welcome.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25Fall festival, 5-7 p.m., Salem Baptist Church, 8201

Hill Road. Historic Parkridge Home Tour, 1-6 p.m., Historic

Parkridge Neighborhood. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 day of the event, children under 12 free. Parking: Ashley Nicole Park, 620 Winona St. Tickets: K-Brew, Saw Works Brewery, Three Rivers Market, parkridgecommunity.wordpress.com. Info: historicparkridge@gmail.com or 951-6614.

Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or community@narrowridge.org.

TUESDAY, OCT. 27 “Autumn in Appalachia” cooking class, 6:30-

8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/registration: 922-9916; avantisavoia.com.

“Earring Extravaganza!,” 6-9 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Kathy King. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

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Sandra Clark

Marvin West

Don’t choose Saturday as your wedding day. Try not die between now and then. The preacher might not be available. This is Alabama week.

This is another opportu-nity for Tennessee to dis-cover who it is. The game obviously means more to us than them. The Crimson Tide leads the series by 14.

Just guessing, but the Vols probably think they can again stun the world. Well, maybe. Just guessing that Lane Kiffi n sees Ten-nessee weaknesses that will lead to sure touchdowns.

We don’t know how it will turn out but we know how it has been. Nick Saban is 8-0 against Tennessee. His teams have won by a combined 283-95. During this little streak, Alabama has more national titles than Tennessee has winning seasons.

Alabama remains a big deal

Here’s the real rub: Ten-nessee still measures itself against Alabama. Robert Neyland started that yard-stick stuff, saying he could never tell about a young Vol-unteer until he had played against Alabama.

With just a little help from Butch Jones and the orange, white and gray, this could again be an interesting rivalry. There are priceless landmarks, generations of respect, victory cigars, table dances and the infamous Memphis market which led to a federal conviction and bitter Alabama probation.

Heroes of what used to be the Third Saturday of Octo-ber: Gene McEver, George Cafego, Snake Stabler, Al-bert Dorsey, Steve Kiner, Johnnie Jones, Dale Jones, Peyton Manning, Peerless Price, Jay Graham, Casey Clausen and Phillip Fulmer (11-5 record).

Not so good: Gary Wright, Condredge Holloway.

■ Tidbits to rememberKicking contest, 1932:

On a very wet Saturday, Be-attie Feathers averaged 48 yards on 21 punts. Johnny Cain averaged 48.1 on 19 – using the same soaked, slippery football. Eventu-ally Cain misfi red. Feathers scored. Tennessee won, 7-3.

Famous ’39 run: John-ny Butler twice reversed his fi eld and unraveled a ser-

pentine 56-yard touchdown that remains one of the best ever on Shields-Watkins Field.

Battered but un-bowed: Alabama all-American Harry Gilmer took a terrible beating from Tennessee tackle Dick Huff-man in 1946. Gilmer fi nally limped off the fi eld – to a standing ovation from UT fans.

Tipoff: Alabama scouts claimed 1956 guard Bill Johnson tipped off Tennes-see plays. Tide defense was told to watch foot alignment for clues. Alas and alas, Johnson suffered a sprained ankle in practice and did not play. Tennessee won, 14-0.

Clock stopper: Kenny Stabler’s 1965 famous spike saved just enough time for Alabama to have won with a fi eld goal. There was a catch. Snake’s spike was

If legislative Democrats suggested raising taxes, ev-ery Republican would jump up to vote no.

But since the GOP now controls every branch of state government, the re-sponsibility to run the state falls on them. And their in-experience shows.

There’s a crisis that’s get-ting worse fast in the state’s method of funding roads. Led by state Sen. Jim Tracy, legislators met in Knoxville last week to review con-cerns with local offi cials and the public.

Tennessee is a pay-as-you-go state for road con-struction – one of just fi ve states with no road debt. That’s great.

But the TDOT budget is fu-eled by a 21.4-cent-per-gallon

fourth down.Unusual punishment:

Gary Wright, Tennessee kicker from Hefl in, Ala., missed a short fi eld goal, leaving the Tide to celebrate an 11-10 win in Knoxville. The cruel and heartless remember Gary as “Wide Wright.”

Big beginning: Ala-bama grad Bill Battle, Ten-nessee coach at 29, led a romp over the Tide and leg-endary Paul Bryant in 1970. Vols picked off eight passes. That never happened again.

Fumble: Tennessee dominated 58 minutes in 1972 but Alabama struck for two late touchdowns. Big play was a Holloway fumble.

“Fumbling against Ala-bama was the worst of bad times,” said Peanut. “I re-member Coach Battle tell-ing me a man wasn’t really a man until he had made a fool of himself in front of 70,000 or so. I suppose that was the day I became a man.”

Bad block: In 1990,

Tennessee’s late fi eld-goal try was blocked. The ball rolled so far in the wrong direction, Alabama gained position for a winning fi eld goal.

Foul play: David Palmer scored a two-point conver-sion with 21 seconds left to give the Tide a dramatic 17-17 tie. Alabama subsequent-ly forfeited the game for us-ing an ineligible player.

Shockers: Manning and Kent once combined for an 80-yard touchdown on the opening play. Vol tail-backs Johnnie Jones and Jay Graham had very long TD runs. Peerless Price re-turned a kickoff 100 yards and changed the tense 1998 game into a rout.

Miracle: It was fourth and 19 in the 2003 second overtime when Clausen con-nected with CJ Fayton and allowed the Vols to fi ght on. They won in fi ve overtimes.

No miracles lately.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

Knox County Commissioner Brad Anders

talks with state Sens. Jim Tracy (left), Randy

McNally (right) and Susie Alcorn, executive

director of Tennessee Infrastructure Alli-

ance. Photo by S. Clark

Road costs soar while revenue stalls

tax on gasoline (18.4-cents-per-gallon on diesel fuel). The 21.4 cents yields $657.8 million per year.

Cities and counties share 7.9 cents. “This is how counties are funding their roads,” said Bill Moore, a former chief engineer for TDOT.

“Ten years ago it cost about $35,000 per mile to repave a county road; now it costs $100,000 per mile.”

Do the math.Moore said TDOT has ap-

proved 250 projects state-wide, estimated to cost $6 billion. Of these, 80 per-cent of the design work and right-of-way acquisition is completed. All that’s left to fund is construction, about 75 percent of the cost of each project.

Examples include three Knox County projects:

South: An estimated $271 million to improve Alcoa Highway, a heav-ily traveled and treacher-ous road. “That project (12.5 miles from Cherokee Trail at the University of Tennessee Medical Center to the Knoxville airport in Blount County) has been di-vided into seven parts to ac-commodate funding,” said Moore. Alcoa Highway car-ries 57,000 vehicles per day.

North: A fairly simple project to widen Highway 33 from Halls to the Knox/Union county line, now un-der construction, is costing $30 million. The project’s next phase (Knox/Union county line to just south of Maynardville) will cost another $32.5 million. The highway serves 13,000 ve-hicles per day.

West: Western Avenue (SR 62) has a widening project now underway. The next phase is reconstruc-tion of a .08-mile section in downtown Knoxville at an estimated cost of $19.2 mil-lion. The road carries about 19,000 vehicles per day.

A motorist driving 15,000 miles per year will pay about $160 in gasoline tax. As cars become more

fuel effi cient and electric/hybrid vehicles become more popular, a funding mechanism based on gal-lons of gasoline purchased

will stall or decrease. And these road projects will be pushed further into the fu-ture.

Do the math.

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The dance fl oor was jam-packed with Democrats at Carleo’s the night of the fi rst presidential debate, and no-body was dancing. Bernie Sanders ruled the night, or maybe it just seemed that way because his support-ers were louder than Hill-ary Clinton’s crowd. Mostly younger, too.

By Betty BeanMagpies Bakery owner

Peg Hambright showed up at the October Board of Zoning Appeals with more than 50 supporters and an argument against the city’s ruling that the dancing egg and a stick of butter she wants to put on her roof are advertising, not art.

Rooftop advertising is banned under the new sign ordinance, but Hambright’s position is that Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter are covered by a clause exempting art from the prohibition.

She was dead in the wa-ter before she opened her mouth.

BZA member Charlie Van Beke delivered the pre-emptive coup de grace with an announcement that pub-lic discussion of the issue has been based on media error:

“It doesn’t matter what’s been in the newspapers. The question is, is it adver-tising? It doesn’t matter if it’s art.”

Van Beke’s pronounce-ment contradicted the ex-planation provided this summer by Plans Review and Inspections Director Peter Ahrens when he de-nied the Magpies applica-tion.

“It came down to wheth-er the sign was art or just advertising. As we looked

■ Indya Kincannon, former chair of the Knox County school board who

now works for Mayor Rogero, is back in Knoxville after she and her family lived for a year in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Her husband, Ben Barton, a University of Tennessee law professor for 14 years, was on a Fulbright Scholar-ship at the University of Ljubljana teaching com-parative law.

Over coffee at Old City Java we discussed her exciting year in Slovenia, formerly a part of Yugosla-via. She taught Spanish, writing and history at the international school there.

Their two daughters, Dahlia, 14, and Georgia, 12, were with them. The family visited 14 countries while in Europe, including Poland, Italy, Croatia, Austria and Hungary. They had visits from 17 Knoxvillians over the year there. The children attended a K-12 school with just 110 students.

Kincannon said she would not run for the school board and feels that Tracie Sanger is doing a good job and is “an inde-pendent voice.”

She said it is too soon to decide whether to seek another offi ce, but she likes public service, which she is doing by working at the City County Building for $60,000 a year.

■ Forbes is out with the 400 richest Americans, and the list includes several Tennesseans. Heading the list at No. 54 is Nashville’s Thomas Frist at $8.7 bil-lion; next is Martha Ingram at $4.3 billion; then Fred Smith at $3.5 billion; Knoxville’s Jimmy Haslam at $2.8 billion; Brad Kelley of Franklin at $2.2 bil-lion; Jeffrey Lorberbaim of Chattanooga at $2.2 billion; Forest Preston of Cleveland at $2.1 billion; and Gov. Bill Haslam at $2.1 billion, which is No. 327 on the list of 400.

Kincannon

Kincannon won’t seek school board seat

■ Susan Shieh, owner of Shay Properties, died May 10, but at her request there was no mention in the local media. In addition to being fl uent in Mandarin and English, she was fl uent in Japanese.

She championed Knox-ville’s sister-city program, especially with Muroran in Japan, which she visited. The Shiehs made a major capital gift for the 30-foot Pagoda at Tiger Forest. It will be a dramatic focal point for visitors at the Knoxville Zoo.

■ Derrick Schofi eld probably has a limited future as corrections com-missioner in the Haslam cabinet. With all the management issues arising around our prisons and legislative inquiries grow-ing, the buck stops with him or the governor. Since he works for the governor, he is likely to go fi rst.

Issues with the Correc-tions Department seem only to worsen. How much water can this ship take on before the governor decides to throw the captain (Scho-fi eld) overboard? He has become an issue as much as other issues facing the Cor-rections Department, which are very serious.

Former wardens and guards have boldly stated he told them to change their stories when talking to the media. If true, this is grounds for dismissal.

■ Early voting for the Nov. 3 city elections contin-ues to be low. If one wants to avoid this in the future then moving the date of the elections is the only viable option to increase voter participation.

■ Tennessee Clean Water Network, led by Renee Hoyos, has a new website that is much im-proved at tcwn.org. Check it out. This writer serves on the TCWN board.

Democrats choose sides, but seem ready to unite

Amanda Kruel is all in for

Sanders.

Anthony Perry and Kyle Bobisch sneered in the gen-eral direction of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, pointing out that he’s never been elected to anything, while their man Sanders is the longest-serving con-gressional independent in U.S. history and was re-turned to offi ce with 70 per-cent of the vote last election.

Are they worried about polls suggesting that it’ll be tough to sell a self-de-scribed socialist in a general election?

“He polls great with me,”

Bobisch said.A couple of tables away

Cheri Siler declared herself undecided. She said the debate might infl uence her vote.

(Contacted afterward, she said she thought Clin-ton “won” the debate, but she was still undecided and wants more specifi cs from both frontrunners. She’s waiting to hear from Vice President Joe Biden, too.)

Former state legislators Bill Owen and Bob Booker are bullish for Hillary. Owen said he was the fi rst commit-ted Clinton super delegate in 2008 and didn’t change his vote until he got a call from Hillary on the conven-tion fl oor asking him to vote for frontrunner Obama. He said he once again considers himself Hillary’s fi rst com-mitted super delegate (as-suming that the state execu-tive committee, of which he is no longer a member, will allow him to keep his seat on the Democratic National Committee).

Neither Owen nor Booker seemed worried about the prospect of Biden jumping into the race. Owen said

Biden should stay on as vice president in the next Clin-ton administration. Booker said the movement to draft Biden reminds him of Fred Thompson’s abortive presi-dential run.

“It’s the same kind of stuff the Republicans did when they decided to go dig up old gray Fred Thompson, who really had no desire to run for president.”

Longtime party activist Sylvia Woods is again sup-porting Clinton but said she’s delighted to see so many young people getting involved, no matter whom they support.

Longtime social-justice activists Fran Ansley and Jim Sessions said they are keeping their options open, but Ansley was carrying a petition to get Sanders on the ballot for the Tennessee primary.

Amanda Kruel, one of Sanders’ highest-profi le lo-cal supporters, appeared to be having more fun than anybody at the debate. She predicted that Democrats will come together once the nomination battle ends.

“Both sides are excep-tionally enthusiastic about our respective candidates, but more than anything I think we all want what’s best for our country, and at this point the fact is we all see any Democrat as better than any Republican. May-be I prefer chocolate cake, but if I can’t have it, I’ll glad-ly have apple pie – especial-ly if the only alternative is a swift kick in the pants.”

Magpies owner Peg Ham-

bright, left, speaks to sup-

porters before last week’s

Knoxville BZA meeting. Photo by Betty Bean

BZA to Magpies: No butter and eggs for you!

at their website, it almost seemed that the egg and the butter became a logo, almost like a Nike ‘swoosh.’ Where you see the butter and egg dancing, you think of Magpies, and that’s how they are trying to brand their business. That would be considered advertising,” Ahrens said.

Hambright said she sup-

ported the new sign or-dinance and believed the exemption for works of art would allow the fi gures she designed to mount on the 13-foot-tall metal scaffold-ing that was on the roof when she bought the build-ing seven years ago.

She said she contacted all her neighbors – several of whom came to the BZA meeting to support her – and made the rounds of nearby neighborhood and business associations to ex-plain her plan.

“It was so heartening to see so many people from my community in their red T-shirts come in the middle of a Thursday afternoon and pay to park downtown.”

Her proposal drew op-position from former City Council member Carlene Malone, representing Foun-tain City Town Hall and Community Forum, and from Joyce Feld, a board member of Scenic Knoxville

and a member of the task-force that crafted the sign ordinance.

Both Malone and Feld said it was tough to oppose a request from a respect-ed business owner who is considered an asset to the community, but both were adamant that the sign or-dinance should not be in-terpreted to accommodate Hambright’s request.

“Knoxville cannot be gov-erned by winks and nods,” Malone said. “What’s next, dancing forks and knives? Dancing bottles?

“The defi nition of adver-tising is not new … What is new is the recent prohibi-tion against roof signs.”

Feld said the task force was unanimous about pro-hibiting rooftop signs.

Hambright said she and her husband, Scott Carpen-ter, are deciding whether to appeal the BZA decision to City Council.

GOSSIP AND LIES

■ U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan held his own with the WBIR-

TV pundits who tried to pin

the ills of the national Repub-

lican Party onto his shoulders.

■ Duncan opined that “not all

Republicans can be as conser-

vative as I am.”

■ That acceptance of diversity

is a shrewd diss of extremists

who are willing to shutter

government if they don’t get

their way.

■ Doug Harris, school board

chair, says a return to six class

periods each day for high

schools can be phased in so

no teachers are laid off .

■ Jim McIntyre, superintendent,

says the change could save

the system $6 million a year.

■ As Sam Anderson always said,

with 85 percent of the KCS

budget going to person-

nel, signifi cant cuts will hit

personnel.

■ Attrition used to mean a

teacher retiring after 30 years;

in today’s environment attri-

tion can mean showing up at

a school board meeting in a

red T-shirt.

■ “The question is, is it ad-

vertising? It doesn’t matter if

it’s art,” said a BZA member

of Peg Hambright’s dancing

eggs and butter.

■ If the city didn’t mean to

exempt art from the sign

ordinance, then why is the

exemption there? And who

decides what is art?

■ Bureaucrats are better at

reading rules than seeing art.

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Web: www.NewBeverly.org

I-640 to Exit 8, Go North onto Washington Pike

to red light at Greenway Rd (Facing Target). Turn

Left. Church is ¼ mile on right.

UPWARD SPORTS Award Celebration

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Monday Night, October 26

6:30 pm

Gene’s shows carry a powerful message of the gospel. Children of all ages and all family members encouraged to attend!

with special guest ventriloquist Gene Cordova

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Vine Middle students show some of the artwork created by students during the magnet showcase. Pictured are the student

council sponsor, Karen Horton, with student council members Malaya Nuňez, Jayla Tharpe, Janasia Slade and Michael Douglas.

Prospective students and families talked with staff members at a recent mag-net school showcase, and students had the chance to show the community what they have learned as part of a magnet program.

Showcase highlights magnet schools

Career Magnet

students Savannah

Keck, Dareece Blue

and Heidi Brady

show a drone at

the school’s booth

during the magnet

showcase last week.

Career Magnet

Academy off ers

four career paths,

including Teach-

ing as a Profession,

Homeland Security,

Advanced Manufac-

turing and Sustain-

able Living.

FulCom students Trey Jones, Graham Baer and Sarah Emory get ready to go live on radio during

the magnet showcase.

Green Magnet Academy students Jarvis Sullivan, Jazzlyn Hinton and Shiasia Calhoun demonstrate several robots during the

showcase. This is the fi rst year that the school will be part of the First Lego League and will be competing locally in December.

Each of the magnet schools, whether at the el-ementary, middle or high school level, offers a unique variety of learning opportu-nities for students, includ-ing media, arts, STEAM or STEM courses.

Throughout the event, students were able to dem-onstrate highlights from their school. Sarah Moore Greene student ambas-sadors assisted FulCom

HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS

■ BOO! at the Zoo, 5:30-8 p.m.

Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 22-25,

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville

Zoo Drive. Info/tickets: 637-

5331; knoxvillezoo.org; zoo’s

ticket offi ce during regular

zoo hours.

■ Ghoulishly Goodwill Costume Contest accepting

photo submissions through

Sunday, Oct. 25. Info/rules:

goodwillknoxville.org or any

of the Goodwill Industries-

Knoxville social media sites.

■ Halloween Pancake Break-fast hosted by the Farragut

Middle School cheerleaders,

8-10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31,

at Aubrey’s, 102 S. Campbell

Station Road. Cost: $5.

■ Trunk or Treat, 6-9 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30, Alder Springs

Baptist Church’s new church

site on Hickory Star Road,

Maynardville.

■ Halloween shows by Smoky Mountain Storytellers,

2-4 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 24

and 31, Sweet Fanny Adams

Theater, (Light #3) 461 Park-

way, Gatlinburg. Suggested

donations: $7 at door, $5

for seniors, students and

groups. Info: Gatlinburg.com;

smokymountaintellers.com;

429-1783 or 984-0246.

Fulton crowns homecoming royaltyCaLeah Smith and Kentel Williams were crowned Fulton

High homecoming queen and king prior to the Falcons’

matchup against Union County on Friday night. Fulton de-

feated Union County, 73-0. Photo by R. White

student Courtney Rader with the emcee duties for the evening. FulCom radio students were in the lobby broadcasting live on WKCS and conducting interviews throughout the event.

Green Magnet and L&N STEM Academy kicked off the night with a robotics demonstration. L&N fea-tures a strong robotics pro-gram while Green is prepar-ing for its First Lego League competition debut in De-cember. Career Magnet students demonstrated a robot that was able to stack and pick up large containers through computer prompts.

Vine Middle Magnet cho-rus entertained the crowd with Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror,” and the dance troupe performed an entertaining swing-style routine. Austin-East Mag-net dance group closed the evening with a beautiful performance of “Glory.”

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Carter Senior Center:

9040 Asheville Highway932-2939Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; exercise programs;

arts and crafts; Spanish

classes; movie matinee

each Friday; Senior Meals

program Wednesdays. The

Knox County Veterans Ser-

vices will provide one-on-

one assistance to veterans

and family members 11:30

a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Register for: Humana:

Medicare Open Enrollment,

11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21;

Lunch Bunch at Aubrey’s,

noon Monday, Oct. 26.

■ Corryton Senior Center:9331 Davis Drive688-5882knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-FridayHours vary

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; card games;

billiards; Senior Meals

program, 11 a.m. each

Friday; Haunted Dominoes

Costume Party, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Register for: Rutherford

Memorial’s “Resource Day,”

9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Oct.

22, includes a variety of

free services and a USDA

distribution day (RSVP:

933-5593).

■ Larry Cox Senior Center3109 Ocoee Trail

546-1700

Monday-Friday

Hours vary

Off erings include: exercise programs; bingo;

arts and crafts classes.

Register for: Fall

Covered Dish “M” Bingo,

noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

22; surprise trip, Wednes-

day, Oct. 28.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center:611 Winona St.523-1135Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

There are parts of the Church who maintain that Jesus was an only child; that Mary remained a vir-gin her entire life.

However, it is possible to read the Christmas sto-ry as proof that Jesus was not an only child, because he is clearly identifi ed as Mary’s “fi rstborn,” not simply her “son,” which implies that there were subsequent births.

Jesus refers to his “brothers,” (Matthew 13:55). The same passage refers to “all his sisters.”

So, Jesus had siblings, and as the eldest, I am sure he did his share of child care. He knew how to hold a child on his lap.

The story of Jesus blessing the children made me begin to won-der. And imagine.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, during the Sermon on the Mount, a baby got restless, hungry or tired. Did Jesus take him onto

People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little chil-dren come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

(Mark 10: 13-14 NRV)

A little child

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his lap, rock him, soothe him, let him drift off to sleep, then hand him back to his mama? Did that start a line of children coming to be cuddled?

What a lovely thought!Earlier in Mark’s Gos-

pel, Jesus provided food for one crowd. Why not child care?

Imagine Jesus bounc-ing a toddler on his knee while he taught the peo-ple “many things” (Mark 6:34)! I hope, with all my heart, that some of those children remem-bered that day as long as they lived, and that some of them grew up to be preachers, teachers, and apostles!

By Cindy Taylor Partners for Children

(PFC) child care has been housed in the Inskip United Methodist Church building for more than 19 years. PFC provides an opportunity for low- to median-income families to afford high-quality day care and school-ing for their children ages 12 months to 5 years.

PFC’s annual fundraiser on Oct. 10 provided an op-portunity for the commu-nity to support the effort to bring quality child care and teaching to local families. PFC director Cindy Dalton has been with the program since it moved to the cur-rent location.

“A lot of our families re-ceive a voucher from the state for child care,” said Dalton. “Not every facility accepts those, but PFC does.

For only $5 for adults and $3 for children, guests were treated to a meal of homemade chili or petros with a dessert and drink. The event included a cake-walk and silent auction. The

Stock Creek Bluegrass Band onstage at the PFC fundraiser: banjo Steve Breeding, singers Terry Williams, Hannah Hickman, Patti

Haun, lead guitar Bobby Dykes and on bass Danny Dalton. Not pictured: mandolin player J.W. Smith. Photos by Cindy Taylor

PFC child-care worker Corinne Jackson

and PFC director Cindy Dalton serve chili.

Chili for children

Stock Creek Bluegrass Band entertained throughout the evening.

The PFC program was originally set up for chil-dren of textile workers who were union members. As textile businesses closed, the program was opened up to others.

PFC is a licensed facility and has held a three-star rating, the highest award-

ed, for more than 10 years. Many teachers are degreed. Children are given training to be ready to start school through a Kindergarten Readiness Curriculum.

The center also provides scholarships for those who still cannot afford quality child care even with gov-ernment vouchers. Money raised from the annual event helps support the

Football atMorning Pointe Morning Pointe of Lenoir City residents

hosted an energetic pep rally at the

assisted-living community before a

recent University of Tennessee game.

Eight residents were cheerleaders who

led the entire community in Vol cheers

and “Rocky Top.” Pictured are: (back)

Rose Inman, Joan Hardwick, Nelle Nap-

pier, Willie Fair, Betty Brown, Vera Mosey;

(front) June Terrell, UT intern Harper

Bruens, Evelyn Deason and life enrich-

ment director Lori Zepeda.

■ Open House at Elmcroft of HallsStaff and residents of

Elmcroft Assisted Living of Halls will host an open house 5:30-7 p.m. Thurs-day, Oct. 29, to introduce the new administrator, Chris Tharp, and medical director, Dr. Jeff Summers.

Several health-care and other senior-focused pro-viders will set up informa-tion booths to introduce their services. Samantha Beals said 10 professionals or companies are confi rmed including three home health-care providers, a sit-ter service, two hospice pro-viders and attorney Monica Franklin, who will discuss veterans’ benefi ts and set-ting up a power of attorney.

“It’s open to the com-munity to gather informa-tion about senior care,” said Beals. Refreshments will be served.

■ Sale at SummitAmazing jewelry, paint-

ings, pottery, singing, danc-ing, food and fun is prom-ised for the community room at Summit Towers 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. Start your holiday shop-ping early. Summit Towers is at 201 Locust St. down-town, just a couple of blocks from Market Square. Items will include cross-stitch, paintings, original jewelry, baked goods, original pot-tery, stuffed dolls and cro-chet.

■ NeurobicsExercise your brain 6:30

to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Morning Pointe of Lenoir City. Neurobics is the use of multisensory stimu-lation to keep your brain active, allowing a person to grow more brain ma ss. RSVP to Jenna Massa at 865-988-7373.

FAITH NOTES

Lavonda Cantrell of Beverly Park Place, bingo guy Wayne Sutphin and Samantha Beals prepare

to start a bingo game at Elmcroft of Halls.

Music at Morning Pointe Jazz musician Kelle Jolly, shown here with her niece, Maggie Johnson, and entertaining for resi-

dents of The Lantern at Morning Pointe of Powell, arranged a donation of two iPods and two

sets of headphones from the Ukulele Club of Knoxville so residents can experience iPod Music

Therapy. Millie Odle invited Jolly to entertain residents, and she promised to return.

Fall activities abound

scholarships.The scholarship pro-

gram is funded completely by grants and lo-cal donations. PFC is also supported through the United Methodist Church. Parents of any child in the accepted age range are welcome to apply. Enrollees are still being accepted, but space is limited. Info: partnersfor children@comcast.net or 689-9516.

■ South Knoxville Church of God, 5623 Magazine

Road, will host its fall festival

3-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.

Hayrides, infl atables, candy,

food, drawing for two bikes.

Free admission. Everyone

welcome.

■ Alice Bell Baptist Church,

3305 Alice Bell Road, is ac-

cepting vendor applications

for a craft fair to be held

Friday-Saturday, Oct. 23-24.

Registration fee: $25. Fees go

to church building fund. Info/

registration: alicebellbaptist

church.org, click on “Activities

& Events,” then “Craft Fair.”

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak

Ridge Highway, is seeking

vendors for the annual Craft

Fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 21 in the family

life center. Spaces: $40. Bring

your own table or rent one

for $10. Info/reservations:

690-1060.

■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

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By Tom KingWorld Rotary & Po-

lio Day in K nox v i l le , in the Unit-ed States and around the world is Saturday, Oct. 24.

T h e seven Ro-tary clubs

in Knoxville will celebrate Purple Pinky Day this week. This is a major part of Rota-ry’s “End Polio Now” cam-paign. In India when a child receives the polio vaccine, his or her pinky fi nger gets a purple stain to show that they’ve been vaccinated.

Knoxville Rotarians will have a polio informa-tion booth on Market Square on Saturday, Oct. 24, and for a $5 donation people can get their pinky fi ngers colored purple to sup-port this effort. The money raised will help fi ght polio.

On Friday, Oct. 23, past District Gov. Jack Bailey of Oak Ridge and District 6780 Gov. Beth Stubbs of Knoxville will be on the Hal-lerin Hilton Hill radio show (which airs 5:30-10 a.m. on NewsTalk 98.7), to discuss Rotary’s fi ght against polio and to promote the Purple Pinky Day booth in Market Square.

■ Rick Barnes to speak on Oct. 27UT’s new head basketball

coach, Rick Barnes, will speak at the Oct. 27 meeting of the Rotary Club of Knox-ville at noon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Parking is free. Lunch is $11, payable in cash or check at the door. You must RSVP by email-ing the club’s offi ce at kxro-tary@bellsouth.net by noon Friday, Oct. 23.

End Polio Now

Tom King

By Sherry WittSummer may have ended

on Sept. 23, but local p r o p e r t y sales and m o r t g a g e l e n d i n g maintained a sizzling pace right t h r o u g h the end of

the month. The 30-day period ending on Sept. 30 produced 1,063 land trans-fers in Knox County. That topped the August output by 37 sales and easily best-ed last September’s total of 844 transfers.

It was a busy month for both commercial and resi-dential activity. The total value of land sold during September was $262.4 million, far surpassing Au-gust’s aggregate of $198 million and making Sep-tember the second-largest month of the summer. By comparison, about $223 million worth of real estate was transferred in Knox County during September 2014.

On the lending side,

there were fi ve mortgage loans of more than $15 million recorded in Sep-tember – easily the most of any month so far in 2015. The total amount borrowed against real estate in Knox County for the month was a robust $415.6 million – over $90 million more than the amount loaned last September.

The largest property sale recorded during the month involved a commercial de-velopment located near the intersection of Kingston Pike and Concord Road, and better known as Farragut Pointe. The property sold for $11,875,000 .

The largest lending transaction was a loan to Woodstream Corporation against commercial prop-erty at 5360 National Drive and secured by a Deed of Trust in the amount of $27.68 million.

The fi rst three quarters of 2015 have produced data that show clear, positive signs for real estate sales and mortgage lending. Last month was the largest Sep-tember for both local mar-kets since 2007.

Strong end to summer for real estate market

Witt

News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds News from the Rotary Guy

End-of-life care partnership forms

Brown Mixer

Even though hospice care has been available in the U.S. for more than 40 years, many rural families lack knowledge about end-of-life care options and the role of hospice care.

Faculty members in the UT College of Nursing are addressing this need through a Community Partnership for End-of-Life Care.

The three-year project – developed by faculty mem-bers Sandy Mixer and Mary Lynn Brown – establishes a community-academic part-nership with church and community leaders and res-idents in Scott County to in-crease families’ knowledge and use of end-of-life care services.

“Hospice care attends to the patient and family using an interdisciplinary health care team to assist with pain and symptom management, psycho -socia l-spir it ua l care, medical equipment, medications and bereave-ment support,” said Mixer, assistant professor of nurs-

ing. “We’re honored to have the privilege of working with and serving the people of Scott County to help fam-ilies understand how these services can assist them in caring for their loved ones at the end of their life.

“We discovered the best way to increase their knowledge was through their churches and commu-nity members,” said Mixer. “Their residents have rich cultural values, strong fam-ily ties, a love of mountains and an especially strong faith – which is why mem-bers of the faith-based com-munity are playing such a key role in this effort.”

BIZ NOTES ■ Rick Pope has joined Joseph

Construction as a project

manager.

With nearly 20

years of sales

and opera-

tions experi-

ence, Pope

most recently

was the build-

ing services

manager at

Ruby Tuesday

Inc. He holds

a bachelor’s degree from UT

and has worked at Lowe’s and

The Home Depot.

■ Nate Naugle, director of

Cole Neuroscience Center at

UT Medical

Center, has

received the

American

College of

Healthcare

Executives

Early Career

Healthcare

Executive

Regent’s

Award during

the ACHE Awards Breakfast

at the Tennessee Hospital

Association’s annual meeting

in Nashville. He holds an MBA

from UT.

■ The son of missionary par-

ents, Naugle spent most of

his childhood in England and

South Africa. He is an active

member of the Temple Bap-

tist Church in Powell where he

and his family are involved in

various ministry activities.

■ He and his wife, Mary Eliza-

beth, have been married for

16 years and reside in Powell

with their fi ve sons, Ethan,

Ben, Noah, Simon and Luke.

■ R. Brent Harbin, D.P.M., podi-

atrist, has joined the medical

staff of Ten-

nova, based

at Turkey

Creek Medical

Center. Dr.

Harbin has

been in pri-

vate practice

in Maryville

since 2004.

He provides

comprehen-

sive surgical and non-surgical

care for a wide variety of

foot and ankle problems. He

specializes in the treatment of

sports-related injuries, defor-

mity correction and diabetic

foot care, with an emphasis

on amputation prevention.

Harbin

Naugle

Pope

■ Smoak wants to watch SmoakDavid Smoak, Farragut

town administrator and a member of Farragut Rota-ry, is dialed into the Major League Baseball playoffs.

His younger brother, Justin, is a fi rst base-man for the Toronto Blue Jays, who are playing the Kansas

City Royals for the American League title.

David wanted to know why he could not watch the games at his offi ce on cable channel FS1. “I asked Allison Myers (the town’s budget of-fi cer) why I couldn’t watch it on cable, and she said, ‘Well, because you cut cable TV out of the budget.’ ”

■ Newsy notesNorth Knoxville Rotary

will not meet at Litton’s for lunch on Thursday, Oct. 22. Instead, the club will have a cookout after work (same day) at the home of Chris and Robin Rohwer in Halls. … David Dooley just wrapped up another successful golf tourney for North Knox Rotary, raising some $15,000 for the club’s signature project, the Ce-rebral Palsy group home in Fountain City. Tom King is retired from Scripps Howard

and worked at the News Sentinel from

1974 to 1987. He is a 25-year Rotarian

and past president of the Rotary Club of

Farragut.

AREA FARMERS MARKETS ■ Dixie Lee Farmers Market,

Renaissance|Farragut, 12740

Kingston Pike. Hours: 9 a.m.-noon

Saturdays through Oct. 31. Info:

dixieleefarmersmarket.com; on Facebook.

■ Ebenezer Road Farmers Market,

Ebenezer UMC, 1001 Ebenezer Road.

Hours: 3-6 p.m. Tuesdays through late

November. Info: on Facebook.

■ Knoxville Farmers Market, Laurel

Church of Christ, 3457 Kingston Pike.

Hours: 3-6 p.m. Fridays through late

November.

■ Lakeshore Park Farmers Market, 6410

S. Northshore Drive. Hours: 3-6 p.m. every

Friday through Nov. 20. Info: on Facebook.

■ Market Square Farmers Market,

60 Market Square. Hours: 11 a.m.-2

p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturdays through Nov. 21. Info:

marketsquarefarmersmarket.org.

■ Maryville Farmers Market: Church Avenue. Hours: 9 a.m.-sellout, Saturdays

through Nov. 17.

■ New Harvest Park Farmers Market,

4700 New Harvest Park Lane. Hours: 3-6

p.m. Thursdays. Info: on Facebook.

■ Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Historic

Jackson Square, 281 Broadway Ave. Oak

Ridge. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays;

8 a.m.-noon Saturdays through late

November. Info: on Facebook.

■ UT Farmers Market, UT Gardens,

Neyland Drive. 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays

through Oct. 21. Info: vegetables.

tennessee.edu/UTFM.html; on Facebook.

Additional information at

ShopperNewsNow.com.

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts of West Knoxville will be hosting several free events Saturday, Oct. 24, designed for children, women and families of all ages. The fa-cility is at 9111B Executive Park Drive. All are invited.

■ Women’s Self-De-fense and Empower-ment Seminar: This pro-gram starts at 9:30 a.m., lasts for 60 minutes and will be taught by Kaitie Kurdizel, Tiger-Rock world Taekwondo champion, and Josh Hazelip, criminologist and senior 4th Degree Black Belt.

The program is designed to teach basic self-defense as well as different empow-erment strategies exclusive-ly for females ages 13 and

older. ■ Breaking Boards

for Breast Cancer: This seminar will start at 11 a.m. and last for approximately 60 minutes. Kids and adults of all ages can break a “pink” board for breast cancer.

Instructors will teach students how to break boards safely. This is a free seminar, but boards cost $2.50 (or fi ve for $10) with all proceeds going to a local charity that supports Breast Cancer Awareness.

■ Halloween Party:The annual party is 6-9 p.m. with prizes for best costume, best creative Halloween-themed food dishes, and dance-off contest. Info or to register: WestKnoxTigerRock@gmail.com

Tiger-Rock off ers free events

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By Betsy PickleKnoxville Horror Film

Fest 7 will have plenty of screams, but it will also show fi lms that are “light-hearted” and “fun.”

That’s the word from festival director William Mahaffey and fest producer Nick Huinker.

“A lot of people aren’t into horror fi lms,” says Ma-haffey. “A lot of the fi lms we’re showing are more lighthearted or comedy. We try to balance it out.”

The festival opens at 6:30 p.m. Friday and con-tinues at noon Saturday at Downtown West. At 6 p.m. Sunday, it moves to Scruffy City Hall for screenings of vintage horror fi lms “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Death Spa.” The event wraps up with an after-fest party complete with an ’80s horror costume contest, a scream queen contest and the awards ceremony.

Several fi lmmakers will attend and do question-and-answer sessions.

One of the fest’s most

A UT graduate student will play all 35 roles in a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play at the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Carousel Theatre.

Brian Gligor will present “I Am My Own Wife” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 and 24, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Carousel.

“I Am My Own Wife,” by Doug Wright, tells the true story of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, an East Ber-

lin antiques collector and transgender person who endured both the Nazi and Communist regimes. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wright began a series of interviews with Von Mahlsdorf and found himself quickly entranced by her fascinating and con-troversial story.

Gligor received a $10,000 grant from the College of Arts and Sciences for the project, which is his master’s thesis.

‘Post-Electric’ play“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” will be performed

in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre Oct. 28 to Nov. 15. Because the Lab Theatre seats only 125, pa-trons should purchase tickets quickly as performanc-es do sell out.

In “Mr. Burns,” strangers bond by recreating an ep-isode of “The Simpsons” in a contemporary America without power, and memories of Marge and Homer become the basis for shaping a new society as the play travels decades into the future.

Two previews for “Mr. Burns” are Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 28-29, followed by opening night Fri-day, Oct. 30. Info: 865-974-5161 or clarencebrownthe-atre.com.

‘Steve Jobs’Michael Fassbender plays the late CEO of Apple in “Steve

Jobs,” a biopic that goes behind the scenes to reveal the

trials and triumphs of the tech genius. Danny Boyle direct-

ed the fi lm, which also stars Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen.

“Steve Jobs” opens Friday in local theaters.

“Deathgasm”

will screen at

the open-

ing night of

Knoxville

Horror Film

Fest 7.

Prize-winning play at UT Gligor met people who knew Von Mahlsdorf and was able to visit the country home that she renovated into a museum, which acts as the setting for the play.

Tickets are free to the public but should be re-served in advance. Res-ervations can be made by emailing IWifeKnoxvill e@gmail.com. After they are distributed to patrons with reservations, tickets will be available on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.

Info: iwifeknoxville.com

but not totally blackHorror Fest’s back

popular attractions is the Grindhouse Grind-out, a timed fi lmmaking competi-tion in which teams create grindhouse-style trailers in an assigned genre.

Twelve teams, including one from Murfreesboro, turned in fi lms.

“One of the reasons we started the Grindhouse Grind-out is that we never

get a lot of local fi lms, and we wanted to generate that more,” says Mahaffey. “And people really like to do the contests here … It’s become one of our most popular things.”

Including the Sunday lineup, seven features will be screened.

Friday night will include “Tales of Halloween,” an

anthology fi lm, and “Death-gasm,” a horror fi lm from New Zealand.

“It’s like a splatter com-edy, like early Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi fi lms,” says Mahaffey. “It’s about a black metal band that conjures a demon accidentally.”

Saturday’s fi lms include “Sun Choke,” starring ’80s scream queen Barbara

By Carol ShaneHalloween approaches,

and costume parties are in the planning. But the main event of the night is always trick-or-treating, and the main participants are the kids.

It’s only fi tting, then, that the Knoxville Chil-dren’s Theatre will present “Quoth the Raven: the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe,” a story drawn from the stories and poems of the original king

of horror, beginning this Friday.

KCT artistic director Dennis Perkins wrote the script for the production, which is “a story loosely drawn from Poe’s life that incorporates three of his stories – ‘Hop-Frog,’ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ – and fi ve poems – ‘The Raven,’ ‘Annabel Lee,’ ‘The Con-queror Worm,’ ‘The Bells’ and ‘Song.’

The Knoxville Children’s Theatre gets creepy with their produc-

tion of “Quoth the Raven: the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe,” which

runs through Nov. 8. Photo submitted

‘Nevermore’ “We weave all the works into the story as a part of the action, and most of the poems work that way, too.”

The story is told through a series of memories, fl ash-backs, dreams and night-mares as well as events in the play’s present time, roughly 1840. “The plot, if you can call it that, moves back and forth through time, in and out of Edgar’s memories to create an un-derstanding – fi ctional, of course – of what gave Poe his macabre bent.

“Was he vengeful, warped by emotion or drink or was he just mad? That’s what the play explores. It’s a theatrical piece that’s often a little creepy and has a few good scares for Halloween.”

An education-based non-profi t, The Knoxville Children’s Theatre pro-duces professional plays for children, by children. The organization is committed to providing opportunities for children to acquire and hone skills that enhance creative thinking, public speaking, project manage-ment, personal responsi-

bility, leadership and teamwork. KCT fosters a creativeatmosphere where imagi-nation thrives, self-esteemdevelops, and studentslearn the many life lessonsthat creative dramatics canteach.

“We’re currently in re-hearsal to try and send ashiver up your spine!” saysthe organization’s Facebookpage and indeed, what bet-ter time of year is there forsuch an ambition?

“Quoth the Raven: theTales of Edgar Allan Poe”will be performed at 7 p.m.this Friday, Oct. 23, at 1 and5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24,and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25.Subsequent performanceswill follow this format:Thursday and Friday at 7p.m., Saturday at 1 and 5p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.,with the last performanceon Sunday, Nov. 8. All per-formances take place at theKnoxville Children’s The-atre, 109 East ChurchwellAvenue in Knoxville.

Info: 865-208-3677 orknoxvillechildrenstheatre.com. Send story suggestions to news@shop-

pernewsnow.com.

Crampton. Mahaffey de-scribes it as “kind of a psy-

cholog ic a l horror fi lm.”

Mahaffey and Huinker are both ex-cited about s h o w i n g “Inter ior,” the debut feature from d i r e c t o r

Zachary Beckler of Orlando. They’ve shown two of his shorts at previous festivals.

“All of his fi lms tie in together,” says Mahaffey. “They’re all in the same uni-verse and involve the same haunting at this house, but they’re three different per-spectives to it.

“It’s really good. It’s very low budget, but it’s really scary. It’s one of the scarier horror films I’ve seen recently.”

Saturday will also bring “Turbo Kid,” “which is kind of like ‘Mad Max.’ It’s set in a post-apocalyptic future. It’s more lighthearted. It man-ages to balance tones re-ally well because it’s a really

heartfelt fi lm and you bond with the characters watch-

ing it. But it’s insanely gory, like a Troma fi lm.”

M o r e than 150 short fi lms were sub-mitted for the festival, and the or-

ganizers say it was tough to pare them down. Some will show before features and the grind-out; others will be screened in blocks.

Huinker and Mahaffey both worked at Downtown West years ago, and they’re happy to be able to pres-ent shorts there, especially since most people only get to view them online.

“It’s great to sit there with an audience and watch them,” says Huinker.

Day and weekend passes are available at knoxville-horrorfest.com and via a link from the fest’s Face-book page. Tickets for in-dividual screenings will be available at the theater.

Mahaff ey Huinker

He used part of the money to travel to Berlin to conduct research on Von Mahlsdorf.

10 • OCTOBER 21, 2015 • Shopper news

By Sandra ClarkIf it’s fall it must be time

for the Oakes Farm Corn Maze. This North Knox County attraction gets bet-ter every year.

First, it’s much more than a maze.

For the youngest kids there are sand piles, swings and a room-sized box of shelled corn to play in. We spotted one kid trying to do the backstroke in the corn. For the toddlers to school-aged youngsters there’s a huge bouncy pillow, king of the hill in sand and tractor tires, and a neat petting zoo.

Teenagers can get lost in the 9-acre corn maze. You can hear others, but can’t see them through the dense vegetation. Then, when you think it’s hope-less, you come to a check-point with ad ad for the lawyers Ogle, Elrod and Baril. Good grief. They’re everywhere!

Grownups will enjoy the fresh air and squeals from their kids as they test mus-cles and experience life on a working farm. There are plenty of tents for shade, a centrally located “out-house,” and refreshments of all types. We even saw a food inspector from the health department. They, too, are everywhere.

At night, Oakes Farms takes a turn for the spooky with its fl ashlight corn maze and the Trail of Doom. Little kids should stay home when the vamps and vampires come out after dark to ter-rorize all those who enter.

The Trail of Doom has special pricing. It features a haunted corn fi eld, haunted woods and breath-taking surprises.

Regular admission is $10.95 for those 11 and old-

er; $8.95 for kids 3-10; and free admission for those two and younger. Add $5 for a pumpkin of your choice. (Just remember, when grab-bing the biggest one in sight, you’ve got to carry the thing to your car.)

Of course, that handy hay ride to and from the pump-kin patch drops you off at the parking lot. So save this adventure for last. You’ll appreciate the chance to sit awhile, even if it’s on a hay bale. And keep an eye out for a deer or fox as you ride through the woods, past a lake and into the pumpkin patch.

Now in its 15th year, Oakes Farms Corn Maze continues to amaze.

Special events: Sun-day, Nov. 1, is Praise Day from 1-6 p.m. with special guest, former UT football standout Inky Johnson,speaking at 5. Admission is $6 with proceeds donated to the Corryton Food Pan-try. This event is targeted at teens and youth ministries.

Thursday, Oct. 29, is Light up the Night with a pumpkin carving contest to benefi t Alzheimer’s Tennes-see. Register for $10 and get a free pumpkin.

The Oakes Family has been involved in farming for three generations in the Corryton community. After years of growing tobacco and raising beef cattle, the family began growing day-lilies, a hobby which has grown into a nationwide mail-order nursery, Oakes Daylilies. Paradise Garden, a specialty nursery, was added in 2004. It is located on Corryton Road between Emory Road and Tazewell Pike. Info on dates, times and special deals: 865-688-6200 or oakesfarm.com

This panorama from a

bridge in the corn maze

shows the multiple

games and exhibits at

Oakes Corn Maze. This

was a mid-afternoon

shot, after the school

buses had left but be-

fore the evening crowd

arrived. Photos by S. ClarkOakes Farm is better

than ever

Congressional goats: With one headed left and the other head-

ed right on a narrow ramp, there can be no good outcome

here. Photo by S. Clark

Touring Oakes Farm are kids from Gibbs Elementary School:

Landon Dobbins, Amie Wood, Layla Hill, Levi Dunlap and

Dimitri Dima.

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4225 Chapman Highway • 573-8000 • Mon-Thur 8-8; Fri & Sat 8-9; Sun 10-6

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