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APRIL 25, 2011
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By Valorie Fister
If you want to know what it was like to work at one of the largest train maintenance sites in the South, ask James “Jimmy” Eding-ton. The Powell resident’s 37-year career as a car repair technician, included 24 at Coster Shop before it closed in the 1990s after more than 100 years in operation.
The buildings along I-275 in North Knoxville were eventually demolished to make room for a business park. But Edington, now retired, still has a commemora-tive brick he displays on a hall-way shelf at his home. And he has many memories.
“It’s dangerous work,” Edington said. “I’m surprised there were not more killed over there than what there were.
“We didn’t have to have a hard hat, safety glasses, ear plugs, steel-toed boots,” Edington said of his early days. “I used to put tissue paper into my ears if I was working in under a car. Someone outside would be using a sledge hammer.”
Edington worked first at Coster Shop and then at the John Sevier Terminal.
As a railroad welder, Edington modifi ed and repaired rail cars. He cut down outdated boxcars and converted them into trailers. And he inspected and tested brake lines in trains that stretched for miles.
Once he twisted his ankle on the job. Another time a piece of slag hit him in the eye. He wore an eye
Powell resident James “Jimmy” Edington holds a piece of history from his rail-
road days. He once worked at Norfolk Southern’s Coster Shop rail yard in North
Knoxville which was closed in the 1990s. Photo by Valorie Fister
Remembering Coster Shop
patch for a while after that accident, and his eye eventually healed.
And then he ran into a train with a truck.
“That’s something not a lot of people have done … and lived to tell
about it,” Edington said. “On a side back road, the front end came right out of the truck and it turned toward a train and ran right into it. Of course, it didn’t do anything to the train.”
Edington explained railroad dirt
and gravel roads can easily wear out a truck’s front end.
“The trucks, after awhile, are in bad shape,” he said. “It hit a chuck hole and that was the last chuck hole that wheel wanted to have any-thing to do with.”
Edington remembers many events from his working days.
His wife, Janice Edington, is retired after 32 years at Frontier Communications. She enjoys hear-ing her husband’s railroad stories.
“We change the names to protect the innocent,” Janice said laughing.
“There was one engineer who stopped his train on a trestle over a bridge over a $20 bet that he couldn’t swim over to a boat and back,” Jimmy said. “He swam over to the boat, but he was wore out and couldn’t get back.”
“There was a supervisor on the train who got scared that he would get in trouble, so he started the train,” Jimmy said. “The engineer told the people in the boat ‘You aren’t going to believe this, but I’m the engineer in that train!’ ”
Jimmy said the boaters drove him to a bank where he could get back to his engine.
The Edingtons both laughed. And they enjoy retirement, which they both started at age 60.
They thought about working part time. But with a second home purchase in Florida, Janice said it’s impossible.
“We’d have to take off work to go someplace,” Jimmy said.
because Ray and the commit-tee members displayed the kind of creative approach to Midway which has been in short supply at TDC and the Chamber.
Ray initiated the brainstorm-ing by soliciting suggestions for ways to “build out” what she called a “Health and Lifestyle Center.” Noting that Tennessee claims the unenviable top ranking in the U.S. for incidence of obesity, and that baby boomers are taking a greater interest in their health, Ray began by sketching out what the main fa-cility at the center might contain. A workout center and a pool were ob-vious choices, and for those look-ing for more pampering, a spa was suggested.
Branching out, retail spaces might include a restaurant serving vegetables grown from an on-site garden and a meat market featur-ing local products. A golf course and trails for hiking, biking and horse riding would provide oppor-tunities for outdoor activities.
By Larry Van Guilder
She may be “G.R,” not GE, but Gloria Ray is inspiring some bet-ter ideas for making use of The De-velopment Corporation’s 380-acre tract in the Midway community.
Ray, president and CEO of the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Cor-portation, is leading an 18-mem-ber committee as it explores alter-native uses for the property. The committee met for the second time last week.
“It’s always important to man-age expectations,” Ray said, kick-ing off the discussion. “We’ve done such a good job of this that no one expects us to accomplish any-thing.”
Ray’s observation was deliv-ered tongue-in-cheek, but her wit doesn’t mask the skepticism with which some view the committee’s efforts to fi nd a solution for Midway satisfactory to TDC and those in the community opposed to aggres-sive development. And if last week’s gathering is a reliable indication, even some of the major players in this dialogue are lukewarm about the committee’s prospects.
Rhonda Rice, executive vice president of the Knoxville Cham-ber, departed midway through the meeting. TDC’s executive vice president, Todd Napier, was a no-show and Roger Osborne, chair of TDC’s board of directors, arrived more than an hour into the meet-ing. All of which is unfortunate,
Gloria Ray
Analysis
A better idea for Midway PHS Band motorcycle runThe PHS Band boosters
club will hold its second an-nual motorcycle run Saturday, April 30, at Knoxville Harley Davidson on Clinton Highway.
Registration begins at 11 a.m., lunch is at noon and the ride starts at 1 p.m. The ride is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
All proceeds go toward a trip to Hawaii for the March-ing Panthers this fall. They will be representing the Powell community at the 70th an-niversary observance of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Powell Elementary to host carnival
The Powell Elementary school carnival will be held 4-8 p.m. Saturday, April 30. The community is invited to attend an evening of fun, games, food, vendors, DJ, dance, magician, basket auction and a cake walk. The event is hosted by Powell PTA.
Knox North Lions plan ‘Patriotic Pet’ contest for July 4th parade
The Knox North Lions Club will host a “Patriotic Pet” contest in conjunction with the Powell 4th of July parade. Bring your pet decked out in their best patriotic regalia for the contest. Winners will be determined by popular vote. It’s free to enter and votes are $1 each. The contest will be held at the post-parade festivi-ties at Scarbro fi eld.
An educational unit for class-rooms and demonstration projects would be complemented by rustic “cabins” for visitors who came for an extended stay. Jeff Christian, an ORNL energy effi ciency expert, suggested a dual purpose solar panel sound barrier.
Besides service jobs, Ray fore-saw possibilities for teachers and even doctors. That sparked discus-sion about the shortage of nurse practitioners, and Tom Ballard of ORNL suggested that the educa-tion unit might grow into a school for the specialty.
“It may be a great service and a great idea,” Ray concluded, “but can it sustain itself from a business standpoint?”
Elaine Clark thinks it could with the right approach.
“We have to learn how to part-ner with different industries,” she said, such as hospitals, schools and utilities.
Ray’s “Headquarters Hill” con-cept generated even more ideas. Taking a cue from Indianapolis’ claim as the “amateur athletics capital of the world,” Ray envi-sioned Knoxville as the energy ef-fi ciency capital of the world, draw-ing on the technical expertise at ORNL and UT.
Even Osborne was impressed – with a caveat.
“I like this concept. It’s a good concept for Knoxville. … But, whether Midway is the right place to put it, I don’t know.”
Ray plans to convene the com-mittee again in May with the aim of developing a consensus proposal.
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Running isn’t everythingBut winning is,
according to the late
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and concluded that
her slim prospects of
winning had taken the
fun out of running.
See Editor’s Corner on page A-2
PBPA welcomes ■
new membersThe Powell Business and
Professional Association held its quarterly New Mem-ber Reception last Monday at the Heiskell Community Center.
New members pres-ent were Jan Gudes, Sage Kohler, Ron Jenkins and Mary Cunningham.
Powell resident ■
receives NEA Teacher of Excellence AwardCongratulations go out to
Powell resi-dent Kath-leen DeWi-ne Benedict. She was p r e s e n t e d with the prestigious N a t i o n a l E duc at ion A s s o c i a -
tion Teacher of Excellence Award at the group’s gala held in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11.
The event, known as the “Academy Awards of public education,” is a celebration of the men and women who work in America’s public schools.
Her award recognizes her 41-year teaching career in Anderson County, including the founding 15 years ago of a high school program for at-risk students, the 21st Century Workplace Pro-gram, that has maintained a 98 percent graduation rate for 15 years.
The award states that Benedict is honored for “outstanding professional practice, community en-gagement, leadership in professional development and attention to diversity.”
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Running isn’t everythingBut winning is, according to the late Vince Lombardi. Last
week Knoxville mayoral candidate Marilyn Roddy took coun-sel of her fears and concluded that her slim prospects of win-ning had taken the fun out of running.
Now Roddy has her sights set on the state Senate seat soon to be relinquished by Jamie Woodson. That race portends to be a great deal more rough and tumble than the mayor’s race, but we wish her well.
With Roddy dropping out, there’s already speculation about who might drop in. We thought it would be more fun to consider who won’t be running for mayor.
Donald Trump: The Trumpster already has his hands full as a faux candidate for president. Besides, that hairdo won’t pass muster in Knoxville’s more refi ned circles.
George W. Bush: Now that the former president has had time to refl ect on his Crawford, Texas, ranch, the decisionizer could succumb to the siren song of politics again. However, he’s pretty busy plugging his autobiography, and there’s that bothersome residency requirement. As much as we yearn to hear “mission accomplished” one last time, the only Bush brother in these parts will be canning beans.
Tim Burchett: Knox County’s mayor will not be trying to pull off the exceedingly rare feat of occupying both may-oral seats simultaneously. This ugly rumor has its origins in the county fee offi ces, where some of the offi ceholders accuse Burchett of making a “power grab.”
Sarah Palin: With her numbers slipping as a potential Republican presidential candidate, the Knoxville mayor’s job might be the best match between Palin’s ambition and her ability. Daughter Bristol would be a sure draw in the local version of “Dancing with the Stars,” and there’s enough Tea Party sentiment around here to make Mom feel at home. But the city’s budget could never bear the strain of keeping Sarah fashionably attired.
Mike Hamilton: UT’s beleaguered athletic director has enough problems.
Bruce Pearl: Only if Mike Hamilton runs.Phil Fulmer: Ditto.There you have the most comprehensive list of those cur-
rently not running for mayor of Knoxville you’ll fi nd this side of the Pecos. If you’re not running for mayor and would like to be included on the next roster, drop me an email. Meanwhile, enjoy this week’s edition of the Shopper-News. Check us out online at www.shoppernewsnow.com.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].
Cast set for ‘The Curious Savage’Auditions have been held
and the cast for the Powell Playhouse’s inaugural pro-duction has been set.
Powell Playhouse holding rehearsals
Benedict
Carmen Iwanski and Kristin Umberger from Emory Family Prac-
tice and Summit Medical Group discuss diabetes issues with
the Heiskell seniors April 14.
The Powell Business and Professional Association welcomed new members Jan Gudes, Sage
Kohler, Ron Jenkins and Mary Cunningham last Monday at the group’s New Member reception
at the Heiskell Community Center.
Adam Hill as Jeff rey and Lynette Brown as Florence rehearse the fi rst act of the Powell Play-
house’s fi rst production “The Curious Savage” last week. Photos by Greg Householder
The production, John Pat-rick’s “The Curious Savage,” will be performed June 3 and 4 at the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Show times are ten-tatively set for 7:30 p.m. The Playhouse has tentatively planned a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on June 5.
The cast members in order of appearance are Lynette Brown as Florence, Tyler Smith as Hannibal, Consuela Silva as Fairy May, Adam Hill as Jeffrey, Carolyn Wells as Mrs. Pad-dy, Chuck Denney as Titus, Hoyt Lansdell as Samuel, Terri Pendergrass-Watson as Lily Belle, Molly Durr as Ethel, Courtney Woolard as Miss Wilhemina and Jamie Speed as Dr. Emmett.
While the cast has been selected, the group still needs supporting personnel such as stage hands, set builders, stand-ins, lighting and sound people, and playbill ad and ticket sales people.
I have had the privilege of sitting in on a couple of the readings and rehearsals and I can tell you the talent level is impressive. Under the di-rection of Nita Buell Black, longtime Powell High drama teacher, the group is rapidly putting away the script. As she told the group on the fi rst day of rehearsals, “You can-
not act until you get rid of the script.”
It’s going to be a great show.
Rehearsals are being held at Sharon Baptist Church on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If you would like to help in any way with this community production, contact Black at 947-7427.
Heiskell seniors ■
learn aboutdiabetes careThe Heiskell seniors
learned valuable informa-tion about a common topic for older folks – diabetes.
Folks from the Orange Pearl Salon in Powell came and talked about foot care and offered to examine feet and clip toenails.
Staff members from Em-ory Family Practice were on hand to talk about the medi-cal aspect of diabetes and offer information on diet and nutrition.
On Tuesday, April 26, the Heiskell seniors take to the road for a bus trip to Pigeon Forge. The group will leave the Ingles parking lot in Powell and have lunch at the restaurant at Applewood Farms before catching the show at the Country Tonight Theater.
The Heiskell Community Center will hold its annual Plant and Rummage Sale on May 7. Anyone with a dona-tion that needs to be picked up should contact Janice White at 548-0326 or Liz Jett at 938-8845. The only items not wanted are adult clothing. Everything else is fair game for the sale.
The May 12 seniors meet-ing will focus on senior safety and will be presented by the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
The community cen-ter’s “Beans and Bluegrass” fundraiser will be held July 16.
The Heiskell School re-union will be held Aug. 6.
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The Easter bonnets de-signed by the staff of Young-Williams Animal Center for its sixth annual contest weren’t necessarily the kind one would wear to a sunrise service.
The top hat decorated with vampire bunnies might scare the children, and the spaceship bonnet could po-tentially block the view of an entire row of congregants. The hat with the layer cake on top would, however, be popular at any venue.
But average Easter bon-nets can’t be expected from an above-average staff. The center hosts the bonnet contest and a luncheon to thank employees who are underpaid and often under-appreciated, says executive assistant David Bolton.
“They do good work. No-body thinks about the guy shoveling the poop.”
In addition to lunch, Bol-ton secured donated door prizes for the 43 employees who work at the center lo-cated next to John Tarleton Park on Division Street and
A beautiful bunch of bonnets
the Young-Williams Animal Village at 6400 Kingston Pike. Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, Brazeiro’s Brazilian Steakhouse and Dollywood were among the local retailers who pro-vided prizes for the bonnet contest.
Celebrity judges were Ryan Cox of the Tennessee Smokies; Julya Johnson of WATE-TV; Allison Bur-chett, wife of Knox County
Mayor Tim Burchett; and Mike Witcher of WBIR-TV.
First place winners were Bobbie Hensley, for most creative; Annette Myers, for funniest; Jennifer Holzke, for ugliest; and David Bol-ton won the judge’s award for his layer cake bonnet.
Young-Williams employ-ees put together giant Eas-ter baskets to donate to East Tennessee Children’s Hos-pital. The hospital regularly
donates old toys to the ani-mals at the center, so it was appropriate for the center to return the generosity, Bolton said. Kroger donated toys and goodies for the baskets.
The Young-Williams Ani-mal Center is the offi cial an-imal shelter for Knox Coun-ty and the city of Knoxville, and turns no animal away. The nonprofi t is supported through public and private donations.
Lots of talent on display
By Greg Householder
It was billed as “A Bar-bershop Extravaganza,” and an extravaganza it was.
Powell High School cho-ral teacher Jim Kennedy did it again. As usual, he and his kids put on a whale of show.
The boys chorus kicked things off with “Honey, Little ‘Liz Medley” fol-lowed by “Aura Lee” and “Bill Grogan’s Goat” which included a fine solo by Wil-liam Jones.
The girls quartet Simply UnFOURgettable, Aubrey Collins, Kayla Gentry, Les-lie Truan and Taylor Wa-ters, performed “Orange Colored Sky.”
The girls quartet of Here Comes Treble, Corbyn Skeen, Erika Swafford, Jessica King and Makayla Morton, sang “Danny Boy.”
The Singsations, Carly McLain, Emily Morrow, Fredda Marlow and Shelby Moses, performed “Lean on Me.”
The girls chorus took the stage and performed “Sh-Boom,” “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “One Voice” and “We Go Together.”
The boys quartet Three and a Half Men, Caleb Brewer, Dean Nipper, Ja-cob Hodges and Noah Muncy, sang “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The girls quartet No Fifth Wheels, Karyn Padgett, Keylee Bishop, Krista Jeffers and Saman-tha Major, performed “One Fine Day.”
The girls quartet Encore, Ashley Spangler, Brenna Featherston, Erin Parks and Tori Palmer, sang “Candle on the Water.”
No Fifth Wheels and Encore joined forces to be-come The Crazy Eights and performed “Rock Around
Student director senior JoJo Mahler leads the Powell High School Concert Choir last Tuesday at the spring concert, “A Barber-
shop Extravaganza,” held at the school. Photo by Greg Householder
Panthers’ spring choral concert is an extravaganza
the Clock.”The concert choir under
the direction of student di-rector senior JoJo Mahler
performed “Heart of My Heart,” “Drivin’ Me Crazy,” “Down Our Way,” “The New Ashmolean March-
ing Society and Students Conservatory Band,” “Fun in Just One Lifetime” and “Irish Blessing.”
The combined choruses closed out the show singing “America the Beautiful” with the audience joining in.
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Halls’ Class of ‘71Halls High Class of 1971 will hold its 40th reunion
Saturday, May 7, at Beaver Brook Country Club. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and feature heavy hors d’oeuvres and desserts and a cash bar. Cost is $30 per person. Make checks payable to HHS Class of 1971 and mail to Gene Parrott, 4410 Cabbage Road, Knoxville, TN 37938. Info: Hugh Wolfe, 922-8452.
Benefi t to help survivors of house fi reMount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley
Road, will host a benefi t singing 7 p.m. Saturday, April 30. Proceeds will benefi t Sharon Roberts and Andrew Rus-sell, who lost all their possessions in a house fi re.
Scout ‘Camporee’The annual Echota District Scout Spring Camporee will
be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Victor Ashe Park, 4901 Bradshaw Road.
This is an opportunity to learn what it’s really like to be involved in the Scouting program. Troops from all over Knox County will be participating and offering activities, including monkey bridge and rope making, refl ective cook-ing, water rockets and outdoor games. Admission is free.
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Labor organizer and Knox County Election Com-mission member Cameron Brooks will be leaving town in a couple of weeks, but fi rst he’s going to have to cast a vote for a new administrator of elections. He says he got a call from a job applicant two weeks before there was a vacancy.
At some point when we had our backs turned, it be-came fashionable in certain circles of Knox County gov-ernment to decry openness. “Transparency” became an oath upon the lips of some occupants of the fee offi ces particularly and the “consti-tutional” offi ces generally.
Explanation does not make senseLast week I suggested
tongue in cheek that Mari-lyn Roddy or Madeline Rog-ero might leave the Knox-ville mayor’s race to run for state senator in the summer special election for the va-cated Jamie Woodson seat.
An openand shut case
a Monopoly board.More to the point, the
mayor is the chief fi scal of-fi cer of Knox County and charged with the solemn duty of handling the coun-ty’s fi nancial affairs in a re-sponsible manner. If he or she falls short, the remedy is at the ballot box.
Those of us who stub-bornly cling to the belief that all branches of government should invite inspection have also had to withstand the bogus complaint that the mayor is intent upon micro-managing the fee offi ces. If events since last September are any indication, there’s plenty for the mayor to do in his own offi ce without burn-ing up the elevators between fl oors to be sure another of-fi ceholder didn’t clock out early. (They never do that, anyway, do they?)
The question that begs to be answered beneath all the bluster and outrage at the notion that taxpayers are entitled to know in detail how their money is spent won’t go away: if you have nothing to hide, why are you trying so hard to hide it?
The outrage should be coming from taxpayers al-ready squeezed by rising prices, fl at wages and busted retirement accounts. Noth-ing more is being asked than an open accounting of how our tax dollars are being spent by all offi ceholders.
Burchett isn’t a white knight, and commission isn’t populated by saints. But unless you’ve been on an extended vacation you know how easy it is for abuses to occur in these courthouse fi efdoms. How could a little oversight hurt?Contact: [email protected].
Cameron Brooks Photo by Betty Bean
Brooks blasts Mackay fi ringThe corpse wasn’t even in the ground yet, and the vul-tures were swarming.”
Brooks, a Democrat, is in the minority and was on the losing side when he voted to retain elections administra-tor Greg Mackay, who was summarily fi red by the Re-publican majority. After the meeting, Brooks denounced his GOP colleagues’ actions (particularly lawyers Chris Heagerty and Bob Bowman, who engineered Democrat Mackay’s removal). He says he has no regrets.
“One of the things I’ve learned over the past few years is that anyone can get a law degree. And one of the things I’ve learned is don’t be intimidated by what attorneys say. On the fl y (Bowman) came up with this theory that we had to fi re Greg so he could not col-lect a salary in some kind of holdover process. Just like his theory that every two years we have to go through a process of reappointing an administrator. My curios-
County Commission and Mayor Tim Burchett are to blame for rousing the rabble. Burchett wholeheartedly en-dorsed a plan to bring the budgets of these “indepen-dent” offi ceholders under commission and mayoral re-view, and the fun began.
Some offi ceholders have gone so far as to engage legal counsel to assist in raising the drawbridge around their castles and keep commission and the mayor from raiding their excess funds. To which you logically might ask, what is any part of local govern-ment doing with an “excess” in the fi rst place? And when did government become a for-profi t operation?
To the charge that the Mayor and his 10 Merry Men plus one Not-So-Merry Woman want to get their paws on these “reserves,” so what? In the fi rst place, those funds are the ex-clusive property of Knox County taxpayers. I’ve yet to see any local currency bear-ing the likeness of Joy Mc-Croskey, Howard Hogan or Sherry Witt, nor do I expect to run across any this side of
“I got a call from Mr. John Mark Hancock saying he was interested in the job and telling me he thought he was well-qualifi ed. I was surprised and said, ‘I didn’t know there was a vacancy.’ He said there probably would be,” Brooks said.
“The other person who approached me was Ms. (Victoria) DeFreese. She came up to me after the last meeting and handed me a resume. It’s kind of creepy.
ity is, are we going to fi re the administrator every two years and open it up for re-sumes? That’s the precedent that’s being laid.”
Does he think that Mac-kay has a chance at being rehired?
“Don’t know. I’m hope-ful. We’re not supposed to be deliberating, but things come off so smoothly that I don’t know how they’re not deliberating. … It was made clear to me that Cas-
sandra (Stuart, the other Democrat) and I aren’t sup-posed to come in there with a plan.”
Brooks, who works for United Campus Workers-CWA, will leave the election commission May 7 when he moves to Maryland to take a position with the CWA. He grew up in the Tri-Cities area and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2001. He says he’s always felt like a little bit of a fam-ily oddball – his dad is a re-tired Sprint executive, his brother is a banker – but for as long as he can remember, he’s had an impulse to help people who are disenfran-chised.
“If I see injustice or some-one being mistreated, par-ticularly people who are the most vulnerable, that makes me very angry. I don’t look to start confl ict, but I don’t shy away from it, either. I consider myself a ‘little d’ Democrat. I’m pretty inde-pendent, but defi nitely left of center.”
Roddy’s fl ip leaves questionsMarilyn Roddy proved
me wrong. She is doing the incredible. Rogero, in the meantime, assured me per-sonally she was in the may-or’s race to stay.
After a year of raising the most money and cam-paigning all over Knoxville, Roddy discovers she prefers state senator.
Why?The stated reason is her
commitment to education as a former teacher in an-other state caused her to switch contests to seek a less important post. Most people are scratching their head, wondering what the real story is.
This explanation is not credible. In her prior quests for public offi ce, she has only sought to serve in the city of Knoxville, which does not operate the school system.
Previously, she sought a position on KUB (which she did not receive) which does not run schools.
If she has been so inter-ested in promoting educa-tion reform, why did she not seek a seat on the county school board or run last year for county mayor where she could have impacted educa-tion in a very direct way?
One day she is running for mayor, the next day for senator, and what office next if something different comes along?
Being state senator is a step down from being may-or in terms of real ability to impact change. I have done both and know.
Was Roddy convinced
her in the GOP primary as all of South Knox County is in this Senate district. She now pledges support for the Second Amendment but voted differently when she opposed guns in parks on council.
The pace of events clearly speeded up her timetable for announcement long before she was ready. She announced it the day of Mayor Daniel Brown’s budget message, and the press conference at Halls Senior Center was obvi-ously hurried and not well attended.
According to WATE-TV, she refused to take ques-tions in Halls on her can-didacy. It’s just stunning that a candidate would not answer questions after gen-erating by her own actions many questions. She cannot stonewall the media long and survive.
Many city employees are relieved she will not be Knoxville’s mayor as she was not seen as em-ployee-friendly. Rogero should be enthused as she is now the clear front run-ner and could actually win the mayoralty in the Sep-tember primary without a runoff.
Roddy’s withdrawal has almost guaranteed Knox-ville’s next mayor is a Dem-ocrat, something Repub-lican voters in her Senate district may not applaud. After all, for 27 years Knox-ville had Republican may-ors – Testerman, Ashe and Haslam.
Marilyn Roddy
that her mayoral effort was slipping? What did her polls show? Did people in Nash-ville lean on her to switch? Who besides Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey did she speak to on April 20 when she visited the Legislative Plaza?
What are her goals other than holding some public offi ce somewhere?
This all occurred while hundreds of invitations for a Women for Roddy for Mayor reception were in the mail.
Now she has to return her mayoral donations and hope the donors will give to her senate race.
The winner of the 2011 special election will serve only 14 months and have to seek the full four year term in 2012. That’s two cam-paigns in one year.
Roddy now goes into a partisan race and has in-stantly adopted very con-servative political views which contrast with her council record. Her votes to place the homeless at Flenniken in South Knox-ville will resonate against
A TIF for Maddox?While Commissioner Jeff Ownby prepares to start work, lobbyists John Valliant and Mike Cohen
talk with Commission chair Mike Hammond prior to last week’s workshop. At stake is a $6.1 mil-
lion tax increment fi nancing (TIF) plan for Maddox Properties to develop land on I-40 at Watt
Road. Commissioners signaled a positive vote today (April 25), despite Commissioner Sam McK-
enzie pointing out once more that Farragut really is not blighted. Photo by S. Clark
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Don Lawson probably won’t be running Saturday at “Run for the Schools,” but the burly supervisor of what used to be called vocational education is on pace to push his program toward the top for Knox County Schools.
Rebranded Career and Te c h n i c a l E duc at ion (CTE) and refurbished for 21st cen-tury jobs, Lawson says v i r t u a l l y every high school stu-dent takes
one CTE class, and more than 76 percent take three or more classes in a single area. These “concentrators” posted excellent scores: 94.62 percent mastered lan-guage arts; 96.24 percent mastered math content; 94.62 percent mastered technical skills in their fi eld; and 92 percent fi nished high school.
Lawson told the school board last week that his department has a fi ve-year plan to increase academic rigor and support overall academic goals, improve the image of career education and increase support for CTE across the community.
That’s just in time, be-cause vocational education needed to change. With evaluations increasingly based on academic achieve-ment and “value added” scores, you could see the budget axe swinging toward Lawson’s department.
So the big guy swung back.
CTE now has a 120-mem-ber advisory council, a CTE Foundation for fundrais-ing, a car show, Thursday rivalry nights and a web-site presentation “Where the Jobs Are.” Earlier this month, CTE drew 9,000
Lawson
Sandra Clark
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Karns Republican Club ■ will
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at Karns Middle School library,
2925 Gray Hendrix Road.
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Info: Lorraine Coff ey, 660-3677,
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CTE changes face of vocational education
At County Commission today
By Sandra Clark
Many of the issues that have haunted county government for a while will pop up today (April 25) and some might be deferred again.
Tony Norman can expect a passel of Realtors, developers and home builders to buttonhole commis-sioners in opposi-tion to his ridgetop
and slope protection plan. This is an issue that’s been over-studied, over-debated and over-cooked to the point of scorching.
Here’s betting it is re-jected today since it can’t be amended. The only ques-tion is whether that comes after minutes or hours of debate.
Mayor Tim Burchett wants the commission to approve an agreement to
pay the Industrial Develop-ment Board for staff work and advertising expenses for the RFP for Carter Elementary School. This will pass, but not without griping about its blank checkedness.
Will fee offi ces join the sheriff and school system under the commission’s budget review? This should be a no-brainer, but after Amy Broyles secured a delay last month it could easily unravel today.
The skids are greased to give a $6.1 million TIF to Maddox Properties to develop the bald hilltop you see at the Watt Road Inter-change of I-40. Reckon they can afford some trees?
Commissioners will fall over themselves to give the developer 20 years to repay (from reduced property taxes) this TIF, led by Brad Anders who said, “Thank you for wanting to invest in the fastest growing district in Knox County (his),” at last week’s workshop.
Norman
fans and performers to Market Square for the CTE “Idol” competition, won by West High senior Kevyn Meheula.
To improve the depart-ment’s image, Lawson’s staff calls parents for feed-back after their student completes his/her con-centration. They “walked around,” talking to parents during the “Idol” show. There are plans for other events and increased pro-motions.
CTE recognizes a teach-er of the month from each high school. Lawson said his teachers form solid re-lationships with their stu-dents because they see them for two to three years.
The business partner-ships are reaping rewards.
Lawson said Toyota re-cently sent auto mechan-ics teachers for training; the Knoxville Chamber has helped; the Knoxville Po-lice Department is buying textbooks for criminal jus-tice students; and the CTE Foundation provided 15 scholarships this year.
School board members were wowed.
“You’re doing transfor-mational work,” said Indya Kincannon.
“At West High, it’s not one or the other,” said Lynne Fu-gate. “My boys have taken both advanced courses and CTE courses.”
Kim Sepesi commended Lawson on his graduation rate, noting that “these are the students who dropped out.”
Superintendent Jim McIntyre said CTE will be
integrated into offerings at the new STEM Academy. He cited a highlight – a course that combines car-pentry and geometry.
CTE has lost some 20 teachers to cuts, and the department now has 200 serving roughly 11,400 stu-dents. Expect to hear and see more about CTE in up-coming months. After all, one of those CTE concen-trations is marketing.
Wildfl ower pilgrimageThe 61st annual Spring
Wildfl ower Pilgrimage will be held Tuesday, April 26, through Sunday, May 1, in the Great Smoky Mountains. The event, hosted by the University of Tennessee, will include art exhibits, merchants, guest speakers and more. Registration is open online
at www.springwildfl owerpilgrimage.org. Onsite reg-istration begins Monday, April 25, at Gatlinburg’s M.L. Mills Conference Center. Info: 974-0280.
Tour of seven private gardens
The Garden Conser-vancy’s Open Days program
will be held rain or shine 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 7, beginning at the Knox-ville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave. No reservations are required for these self-guided tours. Tickets are $5 per garden, $30 for all seven gardens. Children 12 and under are free. Info: www.opendaysprogram.org.
‘Vignettes’The Arts and Culture
Alliance will present “Vi-gnettes,” an exhibit of new works by local artists Rich-ard Foster, Sara Martin and Denise Retallack, from Friday, May 6, through Fri-day, May 27, in the Balcony of the Emporium Center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Fri-day. Info: 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.
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He had been telling his Grizzlies that they could go to Knoxville in early Septem-ber and compete with the big boys. After seeing O&W video, he must ward off over-confi dence.
Tennessee fans also have a problem. They have four full months to worry about Sep-tember at Neyland Stadium, the opener, game two against Cincinnati and game four against Buffalo.
Before the closing exhi-bition and Tyler Bray’s fi ve for 30, I thought justifi able concerns were the price of gas, what paying customers
will get for season-ticket in-vestments and why, oh why, must checks be written so early.
The tacked-on $35 ser-vice charge is no problem for Montana.
***A former college coach,
now an NFL scout, has bin-oculars on Bray. Last No-vember, he thought he saw an entertaining young riverboat gambler loaded with cour-age. Arm strength and nifty receivers made up for some serious miscalculations. The scout now wonders if more information will make Bray better or worse. He says the so-called sophomore jinx is not a jinx at all, generally just confusion from thinking too much.
The pro observer says we are correct to assume Bray should improve with age, experience, maturity, a few muscles and a better offen-sive line. It just may not all come together by Sept. 17 in Gainesville. Fourth Sat-urday in October? Probably not. Sometime this season? Maybe.
As a disclaimer you might have previously seen on medicine bottles, results may vary – depending on our of-fensive and rivals’ defensive strategies, intensity of blitzes, degree of protection, receiver improvement and opposing secondary skills.
***Another Volunteer quar-
terback, Justin Worley, is re-cruiting one of his high school
TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West
Bits ‘n’ pieces and April showers
receivers, All-American Cordarrelle Patterson from Hutchinson Community Col-lege. They played together at South Pointe Northwestern in South Carolina.
Patterson, 6-4 and 200, visited Tennessee spring practice and said it was kind of different.
“Everything was orga-nized.”
Of course it was organized. Derek Dooley does details.
***Daniel Hood made one of
the better decisions of spring drills. He asked to switch from second-team offensive tackle to starting over at de-fensive tackle. In addition to the exciting time he had butt-ing heads with old friends, he won the Andy Spiva Award as defensive surprise of the spring.
Hood, 55 pounds big-ger than he was at Knox-ville Catholic High, is a very bright 300-pounder. He sees a chance for more play-ing time on defense. Coach Dooley and I agree with his reasoning. Tennessee needs large down linemen. Desper-ately. The Vols could also use
a few more linebackers and a couple of high-quality defen-sive backs.
***Long-ago Tennessee tail-
back Walter Chadwick cel-ebrated his 65th birthday with good friends, fi ne food, Mayfi eld’s ice cream and a big release of balloons car-rying his name and address. If you want to send a belated greeting, aim it for 918 Re-gency Path Drive, Decatur, GA 30030.
In 1971 Walter was the victim in a horrible crash. A Wells Fargo truck crossed a center line and smashed head-on into his VW Bee-tle. Doctors thought Chad-wick was beyond repair. He fought fi ercely and survived. Broken bones eventually healed but brain damage was permanent.
Instead of giving up, Chadwick continued to compete and remains an inspiration for a host of old Vols and hundreds of best and close friends. Walter on his bicycle is a Decatur landmark.
Unfortunately, these are not the best of times. Tough
economics took away his job at Emory hospital in Atlan-ta. He had fi ve good years, thanks to Steve Kiner and others.
With a few more hours to spare, Walter is back in the recycling business. His latest can collection totaled 40 pounds. He reduced his operating defi cit by $20 and was delighted. Somebody tell the feds how to do it.
***Tobias Harris and fam-
ily are carefully weighing college continuation and go-pro options. Harris will work out for NBA teams to get specifi c feedback before the May 7 deadline. What to do will not be based on emo-tions.
I am guessing Tobias would like to stay and play another season of Tennessee baskets. If he goes, it will be because advisors think it best for his future. It is just a matter of a few million.
***An uncomfortable fan says
the best days for UT baseball are when it rains really hard.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected].
When you go hear Johnny Astro and the Big Bang, don’t ask for Johnny.
He’s not there. That’s a funny sto-ry I’ll tell you about in a minute.
But, do go hear Jackson, Mike, Paul and Zach. These guys have got it goin’ on, y’all.
Paul Wakefi eld, 20; Zach Gille-
ran, 21; and Jackson Collier, 19, all went to Halls High and have been jamming together for some time now. Paul and Jackson make their guitars gently weep while Zach does his thing on the drums.
Back to that funny story about the name. Jackson says the first time the guys made a recording,
at a friend’s house, the friend’s father was playing with a clas-sic toy called Johnny Astro. They liked the name but didn’t want anybody to think the band was a solo act. So they added “and the Big Bang.”
And, yeah. People ask to meet Johnny all the time.
PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe
The Booze will open for Johnny Astro and the Big Bang
at Barley’s on Friday, April 29. Doors open at 9 p.m. and
the show starts at 10. Cover charge is $5; you must be 21
or older. The band will also open for Better than Ezra on
Thursday, May 12, at Sundown in the City, where they
plan to debut their EP. Check them out on Facebook or at
ReverbNation.
Johnny Astro and the Big Bang are drummer Zach Gilleran, guitarists Jackson Collier and Paul Wakefi eld, and bassist
Mike Carroll. Photo submitted
‘Big Bang’makes big splash
Local group to play at Barley’s, Sundown
Up until February 2010, Paul would double his guitar down an octave to handle the bass parts. But they knew they needed a bassist if they were going to get serious.
So, they were eating in the UT dining hall when one of them went up to Mike Carroll, 22, who’s from Nashville, and said, “You look like a bassist.”
“Mike’s girlfriend went crazy,” Paul says. “She said, ‘He’s got a tat-too of a bass cleft on his back!’ ”
They started writing songs designed for a four-piece group. Soon, they had six. And they be-gan playing around town, open-ing up for various acts.
“We played stuff through the summer and recorded our EP in the mountains in a cabin. Big Bear Den,” Zach says, smiling,” in August, before school started.”
“And once we did that, we waited on the EP and kept play-ing shows,” Paul says.
They won their round at the Sound Off semifi nals at The Square Room last October. Last month, they won the whole darn thing.
And they’ve made it past the first round of the Star 102.1 FM KC’s Battle of the Bands com-petition, too. The finals are Wednesday (April 27) at The Cider House at the Valarium. If they win, they’ll open for Train at Smokies Park.
The Booze from Atlanta will
open for Johnny Astro and the Big Bang’s big show at Barley’s on Friday, April 29. (Doors open at 9 p.m. The show starts at 10. Cover is $5; 21 and up.)
On May 12, they’ll open for Better than Ezra at Sundown in the City. The plan now is to debut the EP then, too. A July tour is also in the works.
How to describe the Big Bang sound? Well, I found a YouTube clip of a song from the Bang’s fi rst show called “I Think You’ve Got Me Confused.” Paul says they’ve gotten much better since then, but Jackson’s guitar solo is super sweet and the start-stop rhythm of the chorus just plain rocks.
Jackson says he doesn’t listen to hardly anything recorded af-ter 1980. Zach digs the new stuff. Paul and Mike are somewhere in between. Paul likes hip hop and says some of that affinity comes through in his playing.
“It seems to work,” Zach says. They all love performing, but
say that recording is one awe-some experience, too, man.
“You see how good individu-ally your band mates are,” one of them says. “We all blow each other away.”
Trust me on this one, folks. If you like to rock and roll, Johnny Astro and the Big Bang will blow you away, too. Call Jake Mabe at 922-4136 or email JakeMabe1@
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Murals, paintings and cosme-tology were award-winning
artist Kathy Thacker’s multiple streams of income for years.
Now the West Knox resident and stylist at Fountain City’s Tranquility Salon has a new creative outlet – il-lustrating children’s books.
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Like any earth-shat-tering event, the news
accounts afterwards differ.Mark, the earliest Gospel
written, makes no mention of the Resurrection. The other
writers vary in their chronol-ogy of who was there when: how many angels, how many women, how many guards (and what shape they were in), and where that great stone
CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton
He is risen!
After the sabbath, as the fi rst day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
(Matthew 28: 1-2 NRSV)
was at any given moment.Matthew says that Mary
Magdalene and the other Mary were already there when the earthquake rolled back the stone. Luke and John differ on how many women approached the tomb, but agree that the stone was already rolled away. John has Mary going to the garden tomb alone.
However, the fascinating thing is this: in all the ac-counts – regardless of when the stone moved – Jesus was already absent from the tomb. “He is not here; he is risen,” the angel declared. The stone was not rolled away so that Jesus could get out; it was moved so that his followers could get in and see that he was not there.
We have to remind our-selves to read this familiar
story carefully, to be atten-tive to it, instead of hurry-ing along to get to the “good parts.” We tend to watch the action outside the tomb, with all that scurrying around and the astounding news that “He is risen!” fi nally penetrating the disciples’ conscious minds.
But sometimes, when I am feeling particularly fan-ciful, I wonder about Jesus inside the tomb.
Now I have stood in front of the Garden Tomb, in Je-rusalem. It looks just as you would imagine it (which tends to make it a little too Gatlinburg-esque for me, but then I am a purist). There are fl owers around, as befi ts a garden. The tomb is hewn out of living rock the sandy color of so much of Israel. The entry point is small,
forcing one to bow low to en-ter. The surprising thing is that there is a small window cut high into the wall near the entrance, which provides light inside. (How conve-nient, says the skeptic.)
Please note, I am not say-ing I do not believe in the Resurrection. I do have dif-fi culty with a tomb that is so perfectly picturesque and so convenient for tourist buses.
I wonder about Jesus. When fi rst light crept across the landscape and entered that small, high window – is that when his eyes opened? Did he (like me in the fi rst foggy moments of wakening) have to fi gure out where he was and what had happened that put him there? Did he fi ght to get out of the grave clothes? Did he ache all over from the wounds?
And then we come to the question of the day. If Mat-thew is right, and the stone rolled away in the earth-quake with witnesses pres-ent, and Jesus himself was al-ready absent from the tomb, how, exactly, did he get out? Through that little window? No, too small. Did he roll the stone away and then push it back? Maybe, but remember it was designed to roll, like a great wheel, down a groove and into place. Gravity would keep it there, at least until an earthquake came along, and the earthquake happened with two Mary’s and two guards there. No one saw Je-sus exit the tomb.
It is a mystery. It is a mir-acle. And it is the grand and glorious truth of the Easter faith! “He is not here. He is risen!” Alleluia!
VALORIE’S CORNER | Valorie Fister
Kathy Thacker is a local hair stylist, muralist, painter and now a children’s book illustrator. She and Knoxville native
and writer Ann Lovell are self-publishing a line of children’s books. Photo by Valorie Fister
Local artistlaunches Christian
children’s book series
to turn their idea into reality.Since Thacker and Lovell live
two countries and 12 hours apart, several work sessions via email and Facebook ensued. The result was Thacker’s and Lovell’s self-published reader, “Charlie’s Big Ad-venture.” It’s the fi rst of at least four books in a series.
The book is full of colorful art-work and contains a Christian theme. The story is about Charlie, a white duck who wants to look like a colorful mallard to get a job he re-ally wants.
After a series of mishaps with his group of barnyard animal and human friends, Charlie learns that although he hardly looks like a mal-lard, he does have a special purpose for his life that he will discover in time.
Lovell grew up in East Knox
County and attended Sunnyview El-ementary School and Carter High. She said “Charlie’s Big Adventure” is set in her rural childhood home. She said her family did own ducks named Charlie and Connie, a dog called Pepper, a blind pony named Grace and a cow named Bossy along with other animals, which is the main cast of this book.
“Our goal is to promote basic family values as the characters deal with life’s challenges and learn valu-able lessons in a way that children can understand,” Lovell said.
Lovell is a professional writer. She has 25 years of experience, including 15 years of writing chil-dren’s devotionals and a Bible study curriculum for Lifeway Christian Resources. She current-ly writes for a Christian organiza-tion at Chiang Mai.
The book is available on Amazon.com but Thacker has been promot-ing and selling copies from the Eng-lish Tudor-style salon as well.
Since the book was published in January, sales have gone well. Thacker alone sold 35 copies. In addition to that, one salon custom-er bought six copies and another bought fi ve more.
“I think those sales are good considering I’m just there two days a week,” she said.
“I’ve always used word-of-mouth,” Thacker said. Her art is her calling card. Her family also owns a dog kennel in Louisville, Ky., where Thacker’s murals have interested clients for years.
Thacker, a Kentucky native, has painted hundreds of murals inside and outside homes throughout the Southeast and in Puerto Rico. Homes in Tellico are fi lled with Thacker’s murals. And at least one shop in Puerto Rico carries her paintings, as does Tranquility Salon in Fountain City.
“I’ve always drawn,” Thacker said, adding that she was self-taught. “I did my fi rst mural when I was 18 for my mother.
“It was of a tree with some ducks. Of course she thought it was great. “Later, when I looked back on it I said ‘Mom, Lord that was awful.’
“The more you do the better you get.”
Thacker talks as much about her murals as she talks about her illus-trated book. Her portfolio is thick. And each mural has a story of its own.
One mural features trees and greenery in a client’s dining room. Another features the Mississippi River and riverboats on the sides of a pontoon boat. Yet another dining room has the feel of a café with all four walls painted in store fronts.
“I met a cleaning lady at a doc-tor’s house. She said, ‘When I build me a house I’m calling you.’ Seven years later I got a call and it was her. She was building her home. Her daughter loved horses and was a barrel racer so I painted a picture for her daughter.”
And a little boy’s nursery room features Thacker’s mural of a little boy without showing his face – since he wasn’t born yet – with a group of dogs that were his grandparents’ and relatives’.
One of Thacker’s clients in Myr-tle Beach just wanted one item
painted in her home. That one item turned into several rooms, and then it turned into two condos.
Her work even led her to a small island in Puerto Rico called Vieques. A client there asked her to paint in her home. One year Thacker was there for two weeks and the next she was there for three weeks.
“The last time we were down there, we weren’t even painting. From her yard you can see whales and St. Thomas or St. Maarten, I’m not sure which. There’s also a cor-ner of the Bermuda Triangle.
“It’s 85 and 86 degrees in Febru-ary and there are fl owers blooming. I never traveled like that before.”
Thacker even captured the beau-ty and shape of the exotic fl owers found on that particular island to paint in her client’s home.
“Things just pop into my head all the time. My mind just goes.”
Thacker’s portfolio even con-tains a picture of Tellico residential developer Ron Kronholm before his untimely death.
The popular 79-year-old wheel-chair-bound developer was in a pic-ture with one of Thacker’s murals behind him.
It is of Knoxville’s Old City but painted as an antique store, since Kronholm loved antiques. Kro-nholm was shot in his home and killed in 2010. His business part-ner, John Lee Nevans, was arrested in the shooting and later died of a heart attack.
“He was so nice. When I met him, he was still in the wheelchair. Everybody just loved him.”
Thacker has painted on every surface from brick to corrugated metal. And now her canvas is a sec-ond children’s book for her series of books with Lovell.
The second book is already il-lustrated and is waiting for Lovell’s writing. It’s about handicapped children and will feature a storyline around movement, coordination and the sense of smell, among other things.
A third story idea is about the adoption of a Filipino girl which ac-tually happened in Lovell’s life. An adopted bunny will also be part of this story.
And a fourth story will be geared for kindergarten readers and will feature more pictures than words as an easy reader beginner’s book.
“My mind is always going,” Thacker says.
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Community services
Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, takes orders
for Angel Food Ministries by
phone, 228-9299, or in person
the Saturday before each
distribution. The distribution of
the food is usually the third Sat-
urday of each month from 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. Info: 228-9299 or
the church offi ce, 690-0160.
Beaver Ridge UMC Food ■
Pantry hands out food to
local families in need 1-2 p.m.
every Monday and 7-8 p.m.
every fi rst Monday. Donations
and volunteers are welcome.
Info: www.beaverridgeumc.
com or 690-1060.
Cross Roads Presbyterian ■
hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry
food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each
second Tuesday and from 9-11
a.m. each fourth Saturday.
Fundraisers and sales
The Church at Sterchi Hills ■ ,
904 Dry Gap Pike, will hold its
annual plant and bake sale
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, April 29-30. All pro-
ceeds will benefi t Vacation
Bible School. Info: 281-8717 or
visit www.sterchichurch.com.
Central UMC ■ , 201 E. Third
Ave., will hold a fl ea market,
bake sale and lunch 8 a.m. to
2 p.m. Saturday, April 30. The
event is the annual United
Methodist Women fundraiser
for missions.
New Hope Missionary ■
Baptist Church, 7115 Tipton
Lane, will have a rummage
sale 8 a.m. Friday and Satur-
day, May 6-7. Info: 583-9439.
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Delphine Sylvia Myers Lovin
Charles “Charlie” Ed Moore
Fred W. Morgan
Ruth Elizabeth Fox Mynatt
William G. Robbins
Stevens Mortuary ■
(524-0331):
Gregory Wayne Cox
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CONDOLENCES
Reagan tospeak at KFL
Ralph Reagan Photo submitted
Ralph Reagan will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon noon Tues-day, April 26. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women that meets weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.
WORSHIP NOTES
Rec programsTrinity UMC ■ , 5613 Western
Ave., will host Alive@35
beginning in May. This group
is open to anyone ages 35-55.
Info: email tonyajelf@gmail.
com or call 357-6134.
North Acres Baptist Church ■
Happy Travelers group invites
everyone to see the “Hank
Williams Show” Saturday, May
7, at the Barter Theater. Info:
Derrell Frye, 938-8884.
Christ UMC ■ youth ministry,
7535 Maynardville Pike, will
host its third annual car show
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May
14. Deadline for preregistra-
tion is Sunday, May 8. There
will be door prizes, food, a
swap meet, raffl e and more.
The show is open to all cars,
trucks and tractors.
RevivalsFairview Baptist Church ■ , 7424
Fairview Road, Corryton, will
host the Gibbs Area-Wide Re-
vival at 7 p.m. Monday through
Friday, April 25-29. The revival is
sponsored by Clear Springs Bap-
tist, Fairview Baptist, Graveston
Baptist, House Mountain Baptist
and Bethel Baptist churches.
Info: 687-5648.
Mountain View Baptist ■
Church, 2974 Cecil Ave., will
host a spring revival 7 p.m.
through Friday, April 29, with
evangelist, the Rev. David
Collins. Child care will be
available. Info: 525-4192.
Senior programsBlack Oak Heights Baptist ■
Church, 405 Black Oak Dr., will
begin a Bible study class for
seniors without a partner 9:30
a.m. each Sunday in the church
Dante Baptist Church, ■ 314
Brown Dr., will host a benefi t
for stroke survivor Brenda
Bryant 4-8 p.m. Saturday, May
7. There will be food, music
and fun including Lakeside
Gospel Group, The Williams
Family, Rejoice Dance Team
and Mavis and Friends. Info:
Melissa, 237-0066.
Fountain City UMC ■ will have
a rummage sale 8:30 a.m. to
2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, rain or
shine. Brown Bag-a-Bargain
for $3 a bag begins at noon.
New Hope Christian School ■
will hold a golf tournament
Saturday, May 7, at Ruggles
Ferry Golf Course. Lunch and
registration is noon; a shot-
gun start is 1 p.m. Format is a
four-person scramble. Entry
fee is $240 per team. Info: Lisa
Helton, 755-1597.
Cornerstone Baptist Church ■ ,
2500 Mynatt Road, will host a
benefi t sale 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, May 6-7.
All proceeds go toward the
church’s Vacation Bible School.
Info: 687-9012.
Music servicesFirst Lutheran Church, ■ 1207
N. Broadway, will present
Music of the Easter Season
performed by the men’s choir
of the Concordia Theological
Seminary from Fort Wayne,
Indiana, 7 p.m. Thursday, April
28. Everyone is invited. A free
will off ering will be collected
for the seminary.
The Church of God at May- ■
nardville will hold a singing
7 p.m. Saturday, April 30,
featuring Cross Connection.
Info: the Rev. Charles McClure
Jr., 992-0620.
Fellowship Christian ■
Church, 746 Tazewell Pike,
Luttrell, will host the Bewley
Family for a singing at 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 30. Everyone
welcome.
Oaks Chapel Church ■ , 934
Raccoon Valley Road, will
hold a singing featuring The
Berry Family 7 p.m. Saturday,
April 30. The Rev. Roger Short
is pastor.
Olivet Baptist Church ■ , 4701
Pleasant Ridge Road, will host
Squire Parsons for a free con-
cert 6 p.m. Saturday, April 30. A
spaghetti dinner will be served
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for a
donation of $5. Info: 310-7722.
Fountain City Presbyterian ■
Church, 500 Hotel Road, will
host Alathea in concert at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May
4. Info: 688-1263 or www.
fountaincitypres.org.
Christ UMC ■ , 7535 Maynard-
ville Pike, sponsors bluegrass
each second Sunday during
the 8:45 a.m. service.
gymnasium. The Rev. Dr. Wil-
liam “Bill” Justice will lead the
class. Info: 577-7130 or email
Special servicesTrinity UMC ■ , 5613 Western
Ave., will host a six-week Bible
study based on the book
“Catching Firefl ies” by Patsy
Clairmont 7-8 p.m. beginning
Monday, May 2. Everyone
is invited. Info: Tonya Jelf,
357-6134.
Door Jingles by Cindy Lyles
are handy for Christmas or
seasonal decorations. “You
can hang them on the mantle
or the bed post,” she said.
Funding mission trip
Devon Graham and Jesse Kelly, members of the youth group
at Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church, with Devon’s mom,
Julie Graham, at the Karns Spring Craft Fair. The event raised
more than $500 toward the youth group’s summer mission
trip, Impact Richmond! The youth group includes students
from Karns, Hardin Valley, Powell and Halls as well as home
schooled students. “There are no outsiders,” said Julie Graham.
“One student called it ‘our forever group.’ ”Photos by S. Clark
Wilma Sims makes hard rock candy in dozens of fl avors,
bagged in $3 and $7 sizes. The Hardin Valley resident
uses sugar, corn syrup, water and fl avoring. “You have
to work fast before it cools. It’s interesting and very
time consuming.” Info: [email protected]/.
Janice Clark and her granddaughter Kelsey Ellis operate a
stitching machine to monogram items from T-shirts to book
bags. Janice’s day job is operations manager at Commercial
Bank in Halls, and Kelsey is a student at Halls Middle School.
Sherie Anderson of Sherie’s
Garden brought homemade
salsa and chow chow to the
fair. Sherie learned the culi-
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to Karns 14 years ago and says,
“It’s hard to fi nd good stuff .”
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POWELL – All one level 2BR/2BA, ready to move in!!! New paint & carpet. Large double size deck. Very convenient to I-75. Reduced to $84,900 (742173)
N.KNOX – Great 3BR rancher convenient to I-640 & I-75. This home features large level fenced backyard, carport w/storage and many updates including new elect, paint & carpet and much more. $79,900 (728870)
BEAUTIFUL NORRIS LAKE!This .93 acre lot in the gated com-munity of Hickory Pointe features: Year-round lake access & $500 year dues include club house, pool, boat ramp & boat slips on first come basis. $39,900 or lots 1 & 2 can be purchased together 1.86 acres for $70,000. Well & septic needed. (742593 & 742585)
N.KNOX – Brick 3BR/2.5BA, bsmt rancher. Great wooded & private corner lot w/mature trees. Con-venient location to Clinton Hwy, shopping & restaurants. Possible hdwd under carpet, mstr w/full BA & walk-in closet. 52' long, 1-car carport great for boat stg or 2nd car. Bsmt Rec rm w/brick FP & 23x12 workshop/stg, laundry rm includes washer & dryer. Great deck off kit & covered front porch. $159,900 (754198)
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kids
Panthers are T-ball champsThe Panthers won the championship at The Battle of North
Knoxville T-ball tournament. The team members are: (front)
Brayden Scarbro, Drake Garcia, Braydyn Lewis, Caden Wil-
liams, Zane Brown, Jackson Maples; (back) Jakeb Cameron,
Cooper Roberts, Dakota Haun, Mallory Maples and Tyler
McNew. A chili supper and bake sale will be held to benefi t
the team 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, at the Powell Lions Club.
There will be magic, face painting, balloon animals, a disc
jockey and more. Tickets are $5. Photo submitted
Xtreme fi nishes fi rst at tourneys
Xtreme fi nished in fi rst place
at the Swing into Spring
tournament in Morristown
on April 9 and at the SEAA
at Willow Creek on April 17.
Team members are: (front)
Jillian Buckner, Miranda
Stiltner, Ardeja McMillan,
Megan Turner, Katie Willis;
(back) Bennett Beeler, Ashley
Wagner, Macy Hughes,
Zoe Cameron, Breanna
Bumgardner and Breanna Ellis. Photo submitted
Youth Chorus leadersThe new Youth Chorus
includes 27 students from
six diff erent schools in the
county. Leaders of the cho-
rus are chapter president
John Shelton, Powell High
School teacher Jim Ken-
nedy, chapter co-director
John Oxendine, Knox
County Schools music spe-
cialist Richard Mitchell and
chapter co-director Lee
Franks. Photo submitted
Eagle Talon wrestling club recently hosted this
year’s “Ea-gle Chal-lenge” north r e g i o n a l match at Gibbs High S c h o o l . Many of the club’s mem-bers placed and received
medals before moving on to the state tournaments in Crossville and Chattanoo-
ga. Winners in the middle school division include Tate Holmes in second place, Hunter Fortner in third and Payton Cupp in fourth. In the junior division, Thomas Roberts and Elijah Lawson both placed third. Winners of the midget division are Cameron Fowler for fi rst, T.J. Holmes for second place and Jared Bowling for fourth place. Lance Wil-liams and John-Aidan Pitt-man both placed third in the Bantam division.
Fowler
Talons win ‘Eagle Challenge’
AARP driver safety classesFor registration info about these and all other AARP
driver safety classes, call Barbara Manis, 922-5648. Tuesday, April 26, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday, April ■
27, 1-5 p.m. Buckingham Clubhouse, 7303 Manderly Way.Wednesday, April 27, and Friday, April 29, 12:30 to ■
4:30 p.m., Morristown Senior Center, 841 Lincoln Ave., Morristown.
Thursday and Friday, April 28-29, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ■Everett Senior Center, 702 Burchfi eld Drive, Maryville.
Traumatic braininjury workshop
The East Tennessee Technology Access Center will host a two-day work-shop on traumatic brain injury and brain trauma Thursday and Friday, May 5-6, at the UT-Battelle Information Center, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Dr. Timothy Urbin, a neuropsychologist from Quillen College of Medi-cine, will speak from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday on understanding changes to the brain, the person, the family and the future
when the brain receives an injury.
Elizabeth Power, the CEO of EPower and As-sociates Inc., will speak from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Friday about how orga-nizations, families and individuals can create a caring and supportive environment for people with brain trauma.
From 1 to 3:30 p.m., Al-ice Wershing, educational technology coordinator for ETTAC, will demon-strate assistive technol-ogy supports for people with brain injuries and trauma.
Organizations and businesses that help people with traumatic brain injuries will provide information noon to 1 p.m.
Admission is free and everyone is encouraged to come, although registra-tion is required by Friday, April 29. Info: 219-0130.
Call before you digApril is recognized
throughout the country at “Safe Digging” month when utilities, state agen-cies and others promote overall safety awareness and the national one-call
number “811,” designated by the Federal Commu-nications Commission (FCC).
Everyone should call 811, the national “Call Before You Dig” telephone number, before any exca-vation.
Using the one-call system prevents service outages and injuries and saves individuals the cost of repairs to utility equip-ment they damage. Con-tractors can also avoid fines for violations.
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By Greg Householder
By any measure, the tall young man is impressive – even if one knows nothing of his academic accomplish-ments.
The Powell High School valedictorian for 2011 is Eric Welch and he stands out. Whether he is rubbing elbows with former PHS greats at the Powell Dreams Foundation Hall of Fame celebration or sitting down for an interview at Bojan-gles, Welch has a mature and easy-going style about him that belies his age.
Welch is a product of the Powell community. He at-tended Powell Elementary School then Powell Middle before entering PHS four years ago.
The son of Gary and Ja-net Welch, he has an older sister, Lauren, who is at-tending UT – the institution of higher learning he wants to make his alma mater one day.
Welch’s GPA is also im-pressive – 4.3214. He plans to go to UT and study nucle-ar engineering, concentrat-ing on nuclear medicine.
No, he doesn’t want to practice nuclear medicine.
Welch wants to build the machine, not use it.
His high school accom-plishments are also im-pressive – BETA Club vice president; Future Business Leaders of America co-president; Scholars Bowl captain; and Latin Club president.
These accomplishments are in addition to his church activities at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church and his work with Powell Youth basketball where he can be found work-ing the gate, concessions, keeping the book, running the clock or whatever else needs done.
In his spare time – what little there is for a high level academic performer – Welch likes to fi sh, shoot bow and arrow with his dad and paint. One of his pieces was auctioned off in the si-lent auction at the recent Hall of Fame banquet.
When he fi nishes his studies he would like to stay close to home, working in Oak Ridge or perhaps at lo-cal hospitals. As mentioned, Welch wants to build and service the X-rays, not ad-minister them to patients.
PBPA Teen Driver Awareness
committee member Gary
Cunningham with PHS senior
Teddy Tran and PBPA Teen
Driver Awareness committee
chair Sage Kohler at last week’s
wrap up of Teen Driver Week at
Powell High School. Tran won
the limo for Prom Night. Activi-
ties for the week included the
Clinton Highway Chick-fi l-A
handing out coupons for wear-
ing seat belts, coupons from
Bojangles, an advisory session
with video link and assemblies
for sophomores, juniors and
seniors where gas cards were
awarded and a presenta-
tion on teen driving given by
Kohler. Photo submitted
Top of the class
PHS valedictorian Eric Welch. Photo by Greg Householder
Powell Panthers
Eric Welch is PHS 2011 valedictorian
He says he gets his love of engineering from his dad, who he calls a “do-it-yourselfer” around the house. Welch enjoys car-pentry and other “fix-it” projects.
Welch would like to be-come involved in the PHS Dreams Foundation. He suggests using the BETA Club and the Student Gov-ernment Association for things such as Phone-A-Thons and other fundrais-ing. He feels that getting students involved with the foundation is a good idea.
When asked his advice for incoming students he says, “Do your best. Don’t think you have to be one certain thing. I tried to branch out and it made high school way more enjoyable.”
Yes, we most likely have not heard the last from Eric Welch.
Williams on the moundPowell’s Erin Williams delivers last Monday against Karns. The Pan-
thers fell to the Beavers 7-1 in district play. Photo by Greg Householder
Special Olympics at Hardin ValleyPowell High School junior Peyton Rhode spends a moment
with Tyler Crumley before his power chair race at the Special
Olympics at Hardin Valley Academy last week. Photo by N. Lester
PHS concludes Teen Driver Week with prizes
Powell’s Huff aker to play at King CollegePowell’s Amanda Huff aker is fl anked by her dad, Randy, and mom, Traci, last Tuesday as she
signed to play soccer at King College. Joining her at the signing are her brother Jacob, PHS
girls soccer coach Larry Johnston and her sister, Brooke. Photo by Greg Householder
SPORTS NOTESThe 13th annual Halls/ ■
Powell Golf Invitational will be held 11:30 a.m. Mon-
day, May 23, at Beaver Brook
Golf and Country Club. A complimentary lunch
will be served. Entry fee is
$250; $190 of which is tax
deductible. Register: www.
hallspowellgolf.com or call
Josh Yarbrough, 232-1218.
Skills Development ■
Basketball Clinic II, boys
and girls ages 6-12. Info:
242-3354.
Bass to speak at Blount library
Dr. Bill Bass will speak at the Blount County Pub-lic Library 7 p.m. Monday, April 25. He will discuss the forensic anthropology involved in solving the crimes revealed in his lat-est book, “The Bone Yard.” Everyone is welcomed. Info: www.blountlibrary.org.
Bestselling authors tospeak locally
New York Times best-selling authors Charlaine Harris and Dr. Bill Bass will speak at the B97.5 Author Spotlight 7 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Rothchild Conference Center, 8807 Kingston Pike. Harris is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that the HBO series “True Blood” is based on. Dr. Bass is the creator of The Body Farm at UT. Tickets are $40 for VIP seats and a copy of “Dead Reckoning” and $30 for VIP seating only. Tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com or 656-4444.
A-12 • APRIL 25, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS
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Duncan helps Rural/Metro settle in to new offi ces
Last week, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. vis-ited our new facility and raised the fl ag to offi -cially dedicate the new regional headquarters of Rural/Metro of Ten-nessee.
Moving is never an easy task. But as we set-tle into our new offi ces in West Knox County, it is apparent that the time had come.
The offi ces on Cal-lahan Road served us well for many years. And we have enjoyed a great relationship with our neighbors in Pow-ell. As our company has grown, however, we had run out of space. Equipment and even departments have been spread throughout var-ious satellite offi ces.
Our new offi ces, the former home of Jew-elry Television, are just a few miles down the road at 10140 Gallows Point Drive off Hardin Valley Road.
This facility has al-lowed us to gather the offi ces for all our ser-vices under one roof and combine processes to improve effi ciencies. We now have room to shelter our entire fl eet of ambulances in case of severe weather if they are not on duty. We have a larger, improved training room to keep our employees abreast of the latest informa-tion and procedures. The new facility has space for vehicle main-tenance and equipment storage as well as a comfortable conference room that we intend to make available for com-munity use.
And within this new facility, we are creat-ing a back-up E-911 call center, which will be put into action if the Knox County E-911 center encounters an interruption in service. Our goal is to make sure that no Knox County emergency ever goes unattended.
By moving a few miles west we are grow-ing to better serve our community. We will hold a community open house after we settle in. I hope you will plan to visit us then.
lifelines
Rob Webb
Division General
Manager of
Rural/Metro
Emory Road Garden Center reopensJody Chianelli, holding daughter Maddy, is the new owner of the Emory Road Garden Cen-
ter. Chianelli and his wife, Sonya, reopened the garden center in March and off er a variety
of hanging baskets, mulch, fl owers, trees, shrubs and produce. The store is open 9 a.m. to
7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Emory Road Garden
Center is located at 1405 E. Emory Road. Info: 938-5777. Photo submitted
By Ruth WhiteEats for Easter is a new
initiative designed to support women in crisis and families in transition. Through the generosity of Home Federal Bank, a donation of $10,000 was made toward the pur-chase of Food City Gift cards to the YMCA of East Ten-nessee and YWCA Knoxville to help families in need cel-ebrate Easter.
Food City discounted the gift cards in order to help the contribution from Home Fed-eral go further for designated recipients. YMCA president and CEO Jim Dickson was thrilled that Home Federal chose to celebrate Easter by helping people in need.
“We work with people who are seeking to improve their lives through our programs,” he said. “This is a helping hand, not a hand out.”
YWCA executive direc-tor Marigail Mullin thanked Keasling for the bank’s gen-erosity, noting that their gift
Knox County Mayor Tim Bur-
chett proclaimed April 12 as
Helping Hand Day in honor
of the Eats for Easter pro-
gram benefi tting the YMCA of
East Tennessee and YWCA of
Knoxville. Photos by Ruth White
YMCA president and CEO Jim Dickson and YWCA executive direc-
tor Marigail Mullin each accept a $5,000 donation from Dale Keas-
ling, president and CEO of Home Federal Bank of Tennessee.
Eats for Easter lends a hand
was “inspiring to staff, board members, volunteers and es-pecially the clients served.
“This sends a message to the families the YWCA serves that they are valuable and worth it,” she said.
Helping hands in the community
A panel discussion will be held 5 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Murphy branch library, 2247 Western Ave. The panel will feature state-wide “211” coordinator Sara Mary Wallace, Metropoli-tan Drug Commission rep-resentative Sarah Harder and others who will discuss what is happening in our communities and fi nding resources when needed. Info: 521-7812.
‘Bulb Hunter’ at KMA on May 4
Christopher Wiesinger, a.k.a. “the Bulb Hunter,” will speak at the open meeting of the Knoxville Garden Club 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
A New York Times story of his life as a bulb collector and farmer won Wiesenger his nickname. His topics include the challenges of running a small business and his
passion for reclaiming heirloom flower bulbs that have fallen out of fashion and off the market.
Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Admission is free.
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