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By Betty BeanMayor Madeline Rogero is

moving forward with a plan to drastically alter Cumberland Av-enue, even as the project doubled in price and property owners raised objections.

With a compliant City Council, Rogero fl ipped $10 million from a project to widen a portion of Washington Pike to the Cumber-land Avenue project after nobody bid initially and the second bid came in at $25 million.

The idea is to make “The Strip” more bike and pedestrian friend-ly by restricting curb cuts and cutting traffi c from four lanes to two with a grassy median. How do the folks who earn a living on The Strip feel about this?

Joe Burger and his fam-

McDonald’s owner Joe Burger and

Cumberland Avenue Project man-

ager Anne Wallace at a meeting of

the Cumberland Avenue Merchants

Association Photo by Betty Bean

Cumberland Avenue Project worries property ownersily moved to Knoxville after he bought fi ve McDonald’s restau-rants from the Litton Cochran family in 2007, the same year that the Cumberland Avenue redevel-opment project hit the drawing board.

In 2011, Burger spent $1.5 mil-lion tearing down and replacing the old McDonald’s at 1720 Cum-berland Ave. after consulting with city offi cials.

He was told that Cumberland would end up with three lanes – one eastbound, one westbound plus a turn lane.

He fi gured he could survive.But after he reopened in Oc-

tober 2011, he learned that the project’s design had changed yet again. The turn lane would be a median, allowing left turns only at

selected intersections.Project manager Anne Wallace

said the fi rst plan called for no curb cuts at all.

“This was not well received and was very expensive, since we’d be literally buying businesses, so we stepped back and decided on a me-dian rather than a center turn lane.”

If he’d known how the plan would end up, Burger said he doubts he would have gone forward with building a new building.

“They changed the game on us. Seventy percent of our business is drive-thru and we get 400 (west-bound) cars a day turning left,” he said.

The plan “evolved” after the con-versation with Burger, said city re-development director Bob Whetsel,

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By Betsy PickleOutdoor KnoxFest is drawing a

crowd before it even starts.The fest takes place Friday-

Sunday, April 24-26. But don’t be surprised if you see groups of bicyclists gathering in downtown Knoxville as early as Wednesday, April 22. That’s when the Tennes-see Bike Summit, hosted by Bike Walk Knoxville, begins.

“We picked the dates of the summit so that we could carry over to the festival,” says Caroline Cooley, president of Bike Walk Knoxville.

The summit gets rolling with a 5:30-7 p.m. ride around Knox-ville, starting at the Sunsphere and sponsored by Smoky Moun-tain Wheelmen. A welcome party follows at Scruffy City Hall.

The business end starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Knoxville Convention Center, with sessions on infrastructure and

policy, advocacy and education, and recreation and development.

Local, national and inter-national panelists will lead the sessions. The summit is geared toward “cycling and sustainable-transportation advocates, traffi c engineers, planners, public health offi cials, landscape architects, re-searchers, cycling retailers and elected offi cials,” according to www.tnbikesummit.org.

Cooley is happy to have the heavy hitters, but she says the sum-mit will benefi t anyone who feels a passion for making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

“Advocates are just ordinary people,” she says. “We’re all vol-unteers. We’re all just interested citizens. The summit would be an excellent place to start for some-one who’s interested in how to get involved.”

Cooley is a lifelong cyclist and an advocate since 2001, when

she helped form the Bicycle Ad-visory Committee, which advises the Transportation Planning Or-ganization. Bike Walk Knoxville was created in 2012 as the local chapter of Bike Walk Tennessee, which started in 2009. Previous summits have been held in Chat-tanooga, Memphis and Nashville.

Also a member of the Appala-chian Mountain Bike Club, Cooley says mountain bikers want “good mountain bike trails, but we also want good on-the-road facilities as well as greenways.”

Knoxville is gaining a reputa-tion as a bicycle-friendly town, es-pecially since City Council passed a Complete Streets ordinance last October. The summit will offer examples of what other cities are doing as well as new designs in bi-cycle facilities.

“Surveys and various studies have shown that there are a lot of people who would like to bike

more, but they’re concerned about their safety,” says Cooley. “We won’t get bicycling more main-stream if we don’t improve the ac-tual infrastructure that makes it safe for people to bike.”

The summit’s keynote speakers are Gil Penalosa, founder of 8-80 Cities and an international con-sultant on creating vibrant and healthy communities for all; and Martha Roskowski, director of the Green Lane Project and vice presi-dent of local innovation at People-ForBikes.

The summit will end Friday af-ternoon in time for attendees to join the AMBC-organized, open-to-the-public Bike Scavenger Hunt Ride and Social, 5:30-9 p.m., starting and ending at the Public House, 212 W. Magnolia Ave.

Registration is still open at www.tnbikesummit.org. Cost is $85 for both days of sessions and $45 for one day.

Bike summit puts safety in spotlight

By Sara BarrettWest Towne Christian Church,

9300 Middlebrook Pike, will host its fi fth annual Wheels and Deals event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-day, April 11.

“Honestly, you could spend all day here,” said West Towne Chris-tian Church youth minister Mar-shall Barnett. The mega yard sale and antique car show funds trips for the church’s youth ministry.

“We have so much volume, we’re not worried about making a lot of money on each item,” said Barnett. We are talking serious deals here, folks.

About 1,000 people are ex-pected to attend this year, which is encouraging to the high school students and adult sponsors go-

West Towne Christian Church youth minister Marshall Barnett takes his

daughter’s vintage Volkswagen Beetle for a spin before the Wheels and

Deals fundraiser.

Wheelin’ and Dealin’More than 80 vintage cars were

on display at last year’s Wheels

and Deals event at West Towne

Christian Church. Photo by S. Barrett

are situated in the poorest county in America. Located on the La-kota/Sioux reservation, Barnett said there is an 85-90 percent un-employment rate, and for males between ages 20 and 35, there is a 75 percent alcoholism rate. There is also a suicide rate among teens that is four and a half times higher than the national average. “They just want to graduate and get out of there,” said Barnett.

A mission team of about 30 people is planning to travel to the reservation this summer, but Bar-nett is considering a visit before the kids go just to see what work lies ahead of them.

“If we build something, like a playground, there are gangs on ing on the next mission trip. Their

project is a tall order, and they can use all the good vibes and prayers

they can get.Two little towns in South Da-

kota, Wamblee and Potato Creek,

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customers are out of state, or international, even. But the destination of the shiny steel barrel sitting in Bubba’s front parking lot last Tuesday was a store opening this spring three miles south of Bubba’s in Emory Place.

The transaction is an ex-ample of the community that Carl Clements wanted to join when he settled on Knoxville as his adopted hometown six years ago.

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The isolation of Alzheimer’s

When entertainer Phil Campbell’s mom, Mary, widow of co-median Archie Campbell, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease over 10 years ago, Campbell had

no misgivings about the role he should play. It was a new chal-lenge, but he felt qualifi ed – at the time.

Phil opens up to reporter Cindy Taylor about the isolation he felt. Story on page A-3 in Powell edition.

Someone’s right, someone’s wrong

Texas paid $1.75 million to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennessee snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.

We’ll fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will eventually determine which athletic director was correct ... Steve Patterson or Dave Hart.

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A dark side to Knoxville biking

As a community, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefi ts of bicycling. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our bodies. It’s pure joy for those of us who love cycling.

But there’s a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville.

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By Betsy PickleOutdoor KnoxFest is

drawing a crowd before it even starts.

The fest takes place Fri-day-Sunday, April 24-26. But don’t be surprised if you see groups of bicyclists gath-ering in downtown Knox-ville as early as Wednesday, April 22. That’s when the Tennessee Bike Summit, hosted by Bike Walk Knox-ville, begins.

“We picked the dates of the summit so that we could carry over to the festival,” says Caroline Cooley, presi-dent of Bike Walk Knoxville.

The summit gets roll-ing with a 5:30-7 p.m. ride around Knoxville, starting at the Sunsphere and spon-sored by Smoky Mountain Wheelmen. A welcome party follows at Scruffy City Hall.

The business end starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Knoxville Conven-tion Center, with sessions on infrastructure and policy, advocacy and education, and recreation and development.

Local, national and inter-national panelists will lead the sessions. The summit is geared toward “cycling and sustainable-transportation

advocates, traffi c engineers, planners, public health of-fi cials, landscape architects, researchers, cycling retail-ers and elected offi cials,” ac-cording to www.tnbikesum-mit.org.

Cooley is happy to have the heavy hitters, but she says the summit will benefi t anyone who feels a passion for making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

“Advocates are just or-dinary people,” she says. “We’re all volunteers. We’re all just interested citizens. The summit would be an excellent place to start for

someone who’s interested in how to get involved.”

Cooley is a lifelong cy-clist and an advocate since 2001, when she helped form the Bicycle Advisory Com-mittee, which advises the Transportation Planning Organization. Bike Walk Knoxville was created in 2012 as the local chapter of Bike Walk Tennessee, which started in 2009. Previous summits have been held in Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville.

Also a member of the Ap-palachian Mountain Bike Club, Cooley says mountain

Bike summit puts safety in spotlight

By Wendy SmithThere’s no doubt that

Bearden Middle School students need help cross-ing four-lane Middlebrook Pike. The question is wheth-er they would be best served by a bridge or a HAWK.

Knox County commis-sioner Jeff Ownby is in favor of the HAWK (High-intensi-ty Activated crossWalK). A HAWK is a standalone sys-tem that stops traffi c when activated by a pedestrian. Red and yellow lights, at-tached to a mast arm over the road, are dark until trig-gered by a push button. The button prompts a fl ashing yellow light, followed by a solid yellow, followed by a solid red, during which pe-destrians cross. After an in-terval, the red light begins to fl ash, and drivers can proceed with caution.

The majority of Bearden Middle School students who currently cross Middle-brook come from the east

Commissioners seek solutionto dangerous crosswalk

“Middebrook was just two lanes when the school was built,” Ownby said. “The crosswalk was just added a year and a half ago.”

A security offi cer assists students as they cross the road for 20 minutes each morning and afternoon. But that doesn’t help kids who stay late for school activi-ties, he pointed out.

Ellen Zavisca, senior transportation planner with the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), joined Ownby and commissioner Randy Smith as they dis-cussed possible solutions. The average daily traffi c count for Middlebrook Pike is approximately 21,000 ve-hicles, she said.

Funding for an improved crosswalk could come from the federal Transporta-tion Alternatives Program, which provides grants for pedestrian and bicycle proj-ects. The Tennessee De-partment of Transportation (TDOT) Multimodal Access Grant, a new state-funded program that supports proj-ects that help transit users,

pedestrians and bicyclists along state routes, is anoth-er possibility, she said.

Additional funds could come from both the county and the city, since the school, which belongs to the county, is within city limits.

A pedestrian bridge has been discussed, but it would be a costly solution. The Alcoa Greenway Pedestrian Bridge over Alcoa Highway cost $1.5 million when it was completed in 2010. For the cost of a pedestrian bridge, 10 HAWK systems could be purchased, Ownby said. South-Doyle High, Cedar Bluff Elementary and Middle and Fulton High top the list of other schools that need safer crosswalks, he said.

Ownby’s next step is to consult with TDOT on making a change, since Middlebrook is a state road. He emphasized that his work is citizen-driven. It’s important for residents to bring problems to the attention of county commissioners, he said.

“Our job is to listen and fi nd solutions.”

bikers want “good mountain bike trails, but we also want good on-the-road facilities as well as greenways.”

Knoxville is gaining a rep-utation as a bicycle-friendly town, especially since City Council passed a Complete Streets ordinance last Octo-ber. The summit will offer examples of what other cities are doing as well as new de-signs in bicycle facilities.

“Surveys and various studies have shown that there are a lot of people who would like to bike more, but they’re concerned about their safety,” says Cooley. “We won’t get bicycling more mainstream if we don’t improve the actual in-frastructure that makes it safe for people to bike.”

The summit’s keynote speakers are Gil Penalosa, founder of 8-80 Cities and an international consultant on creating vibrant and healthy communities for all; and Martha Roskowski, director of the Green Lane Project and vice president of local innovation at Peo-pleForBikes.

The summit will end Friday afternoon in time for attendees to join the AMBC-organized, open-to-the-public Bike Scavenger Hunt Ride and Social, 5:30-9 p.m., starting and ending at the Public House, 212 W. Magnolia Ave.

Registration is still open at www.tnbikesummit.org. Cost is $85 for both days of sessions and $45 for one day.

side of West Hills, so they use a crosswalk at Middle-brook and West Hills Road, rather than Middlebrook and Vanosdale Road, which has a signal, Ownby said last week at a public meet-ing to discuss the problem. Commissioner Randy Smith

also attended.Ownby was alerted to the

unsafe crossing by members of the West Hills Community Association. A child was al-most hit by a car at the cross-walk earlier this year, he was told. Neighbors are con-cerned that crossing Mid-

debrook will be even more diffi cult after a new Tennova hospital is built just west of the school. Increased traf-fi c from a new manufactur-ing facility, Hicks Plastics, which will be located east of the school on Midpark Road, is also a concern.

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insisting that Cumberland will still be a three-lane street and that cars can turn left just east of McDonald’s and access it from 18th Street.

Burger countered that a grassy median is not a “lane” and said that his property is designed to allow cars to enter from Cumberland Av-enue and “stack up” without obstructing parking or back-ing up onto the street.

“Convenience is a big deal. At least 50 percent of our business is from impulse customers, and if they come in from 18th Street, they’ll have to turn left, come down to our driveway, go around the building to get in line. It’s going to be a mess.

“They said it would be three lanes the entire way. One lane each way and a continuous turn lane. … We all expressed our opinion, and they said this is the way this is going forward. They said TDOT did a study and that’s the safest way to do it,” Burger said.

Mike Chase opened the Copper Cellar on Cumber-land 40 years ago, and it be-came the fi rst in what is now a 17-restaurant chain. He is worried about the two-and-a-half-year construction pe-riod and predicts that many businesses won’t survive. He agrees with Burger’s criti-cism of restricting left turns and is critical of the city’s lack of action on a long-promised parking garage.

Chase also doesn’t like the “form-based” code that has produced the Evolve Apart-ments, a mixed-use devel-opment combining student

housing and storefront com-mercial units in the 2000 block that jut out to the side-walk and appear to be va-cant. The city gave Evolve a $200,000 tax break.

Bob Monday, property owner leasing to Walgreens and FedEx Kinkos, agrees with Chase and Burger. All three are concerned that left-turning traffi c will overwhelm the short turn lanes at the side streets and create bottlenecks.

“The stack-up lanes ac-commodate three to fi ve car lengths, but if you have a big beer truck making a deliv-ery, it would block the lane until it moves. It will be a nightmare in terms of traf-fi c,” Monday said

Joe Kirk, owner of Star-bucks, said the city’s plan will damage taxpaying busi-nesses.

“I think it’s a sham,” he said. “Whoever came up with the idea doesn’t have any common sense and has never been in business. It’s the busiest street in Knox-ville, so we’re going to re-duce the traffi c? It’s an in-sult to our intelligence.”

City Council member Nick Pavlis, who represents the Cumberland Avenue Strip, said he understands the property owners’ con-cerns but says they should have spoken out earlier and louder. He said the aim of the plan is to make Cumber-land Avenue “an extension of downtown. People will be coming there for a purpo se, and at the end of the day, it will improve their business model, not be a burden.”

Wheelin’ From page A-1

the reservation that will come and tear it down,” said Barnett.

The group is driving in-stead of fl ying so that more of the money made at Wheels and Deals can be spent on projects at the reservation instead of on airfare.

Close to 100 antique cars are expected to be on dis-play, and everything imagin-able will be for sale indoors.

You can donate items for the sale through Friday, April 10, or you can pay to set up as a vendor and keep the money you make. Ven-dor fees and car show entry fees will go toward the mis-sion trip.

Registration for the car show is open through the day of the event. Trophies will be awarded to the top 25 cars.

In addition to shopping

Nancy Anderson

Nearly 1,000 parents, family members and friends visited Karns Elementary School to celebrate the ar-tistic talents of kindergar-ten through fi fth-grade stu-dents last Thursday night.

Getting creative at Karns Elementary

A Night of the Arts is an annual student art ex-travaganza featuring a wide range of artistic creations from paintings to a musical performance to a jump-rope demonstration.

More than 1,200 paint-ings and drawings lined ev-ery hall showcasing a year-long collection of student art to show parents how their child is growing creatively.

“Every year it looks dif-ferent,” said art teacher Michele Gray. “It’s just won-derful when you see it all put together. It’s so creative and so colorful. The kids did an excellent job. A Night of the Arts is for everyone, but especially for parents to see what the kids express creatively and to see what

and drooling over classic cars, you can enjoy a deli-cious lunch. The Holy Smok-ers, a group of excellent cooks who attend WTCC, cook every year. Past favor-ites have included chicken, corn souffl é and glazed car-rots.

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the kids are experiencing in their art classes.

“It’s a really big day for the kids. They are very proud to have their creations put on the wall for everyone to see, especially the parents. You can see the self-esteem grow in their eyes when mom and dad are impressed with their efforts.”

In the midst of paintings, musicals and jump-rope demonstrations, an unusual exhibit of scrapbooks sat pro-tected in the back corner of the library, each containing a yearlong collection of fi fth-grade art class assignments for each student. The delicate

scrapbooks made from dis-carded old books are fi lled to capacity, giving each student a special memento of his or her grade-school days.

“This project started in November,” said Gray. “We took apart discarded books and used the covers and pieces to create something very special. The kids make something new for the book every class time for the year. The books become a stunning art piece. They’re beautiful, and it’s so cool to up-cycle old books to make something memorable and personal to each student.”

Gray said her favorite part

of teaching is encouraging creativity, creative problem solving and spontaneity.

“We have a large num-ber of really talented kids. They’re willing to try new things and experiment, which I love because there’s spontaneity in that. No one says, ‘I’m afraid I’ll make a mistake. I have to do this perfectly.’ It isn’t about per-fection, it’s about trying; it’s about problem solving and thinking outside the box.

“I’m always so proud of the kids, they’re fearless and they always do a really good job. The show gets bet-ter and better every year.”

Karns gets cookingBy Nancy Anderson

“It’s been a fantastic grand opening day for We’re Cooking All American Grill. We’ve been slammed all day, but we’re having a great time and everyone seems happy.

“We’re ready for Karns,” said north district manager Kevin Galyon.

Karns’ newest restaurant is the fi fth of a chain owned by Michael and Andrea Rudd of Powell. It features Americana cuisine from hamburgers to fi sh and shrimp for prices from $5 to $11.

The Rudds said they are

dedicated to providing the highest quality foods in a casual, family-friendly at-mosphere where you can have it your way.

“We serve only fresh pro-duce delivered daily,” said Andrea Rudd.

“All of our meats are fresh, never frozen. The burgers are hand-pattied and super delicious. You build it the way you like it, and we cook it the way you want it.

“We love, love, love Karns and appreciate what a great community it is. Michael and I have four kids, and we know what it’s like to have a

stressful day and just want someplace to go for a good lunch or dinner.

“When you come here, we want you to relax, enjoy yourself, your family and es-pecially your meal.”

Orozco Rivera admires her daughter’s painting. “That looks like it took a lot of patience to draw all those patterns,” she said. Pictured from left are Michele Gray, Dianne Rivera, 9, and Orozco Rivera. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Owners Michael and Andrea Rudd prepare to cut the ribbon at the grand opening of We’re Cooking All American Grill, 7664 Oak Ridge Highway. Photos by Nancy Anderson

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County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/.

■ District 6 Democrats meet 6:15 p.m. each fourth Tuesday at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Clay Mulford, 257-6744, or Janice Spoone, 771-5920.


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By now, you’ve heard it all – great record, class act, good recruiter, better per-son, home-run hire!

Texas paid $1.75 mil-lion to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennes-see snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.

We’ll fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will even-tually determine which athletic director was cor-rect, crusty and disgruntled Steve Patterson or alert, determined and sometimes crusty Dave Hart.

Patterson, second year in his job, reviewed the past seven seasons and de-cided Barnes, age 60, had declined and no longer met Texas’ needs. Players were better than results. The team received NCAA tour-nament bids but didn’t stay

Somebody is right, somebody is wrong

long enough.The Longhorns were hurt

by hype, ranked higher in November than March. Barnes fi nished in the AP top 25 once in those seven years. His Big 12 record in the other six seasons was 53-51.

What happened in Austin was a classic case of what have you done for us lately. Best times were way back then. Now was perceived as stale. The fan base was tak-ing a nap, but some cowboy conducted a poll. Many par-ticipants, still yawning, said ho-hum, nothing will ever

happen, but 75 percent did agree that Texas needed a new coach.

The old one was not prop-erly inspiring big donors to donate. Heaven help us, he may even have lost touch with some high school coaches.

A mean-spirited in-sider leaked to the media a hypocritical ultimatum from Patterson: Dump as-sistants, make changes, maybe you could survive. Big news! All assistants of-fered to resign. Barnes said no thanks. Patterson said see ya later.

Texas thus dismissed an honorable man believed to have faded. Does this sound football familiar?

You may know that UT is planning a new arena and supposedly needs bubbling enthusiasm to raise $450 million.

Hart, a tanned 66 or 67 without one gray hair, un-derstands 60. He is not spooked. Older coaches seldom dash out front with new ideas or make as many all-night recruiting trips, but with strategic help, they can become secondary CEOs and famous fronts for their sport, wear nice suits, speak crisply in TV com-mentary and shoot straight to the Hall of Fame.

Hart responded imme-diately to the fi rst hint of availability, as if Barnes were a gift directly from God. Here was a big-time winning coach with a clean reputation who would sure-ly cover and maybe erase Dave’s most recent prob-lems, the unfortunate selec-tion and dismissal of Don-nie Tyndall.

Based on his own expe-rience, Hart thinks Barnes

will be rejuvenated. Being wanted is inspirational. Six-year contract guaran-tees continuity. This is it for Rick, last stop. Hart be-lieves he can do better than he has been doing.

Paying Barnes $2.25 mil-lion plus incentives is OK. Spending $51,000 from Tennessee’s depleted trea-sury for the search group didn’t do much. Out-and-in timing was so snug, some believe Rick was hired be-fore he was fi red.

Here are tidbits to help you decide what the Volun-teers purchased:

Barnes received the John R. Wooden “Legends of Coaching” honor in 2009. The award recognizes life-time achievement by those who exemplify Wooden standards.

Barnes received the U.S. Basketball Writers’ Good Guy Award in 2011.

Defense has been Barnes’ coaching priority. Rebound-ing is usually strong.

Assistants have been highly regarded recruiters. There are 10 times more prized prospects in Texas than Tennessee.

Texas once reached No. 1, with a 17-0 record in the middle of 2009-10. The season crumbled. Long-horns went 7-10 in the sec-ond half.

Barnes’ only losing rec-ord, 16-18 in 2012-13, was punctuated by the post-sea-son loss of fi ve players with remaining eligibility. A year later, Rick was Big 12 coach of the year.

Everybody who scored in 2013-14 returned for this season, and a fi ve-star sev-en-footer was added. Hope went high. The Longhorns shot poorly. They were 169th in NCAA fi eld-goal accuracy. Their record was 20-14. The conference rec-ord was 8-10. Rick Barnes couldn’t explain it.

No need to now.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

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Derrick Furlow wore No. 6 when he played football at UT. He played safety be-cause “on defense you can hit people.”

The Atlanta native was planning to attend the Uni-versity of Georgia and had not thought about UT, but circumstances changed and he actually walked on at UT, asking for a chance to prove himself.

“When I didn’t feel like it, I worked harder,” he told the newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene. “When prac-tice was over, I did extra.” In his sophomore year, Furlow got his scholarship.

Furlow captivated the kids because he spoke from

The Sarah Moore Greene newspaper club heard an inspirational talk by former UT football player

Derrick Furlow. Pictured are Destiny Woods, Mirna Cardenas, Safari Bahati, Malaya Thomas, Furlow,

Madison Thomas, Jada Byas, Stanley Greene, Eddys Garcia-Arias and Shantasha Glenn. Photo by Ruth White

The things you can control

the heart. He’s a guy who didn’t like tests, who didn’t really like school. So he told his adviser to design a plan to get him out quickly. He didn’t take a single course that was not targeted to his graduation.

Furlow graduated in three years with two years of football eligibility re-maining. So he went for a

master’s degree. He got it in two years, majoring in sport psychology.

“You guys are here for a purpose,” he said. “You can always control your at-titude; you can control your actions; you can control your approach to situations.

… You never know who’s watching.”

His mom always said, “Birds of a feather fl ock to-gether,” and “I never knew what that meant,” he said. Then at UT his coach told him, “Starters hang out with starters.”

“That sounded a lot like what my mom had said,”

Furlow said. Now in busi-ness, he said you can pre-dict a person’s income by averaging the income of his fi ve best friends.

Stanley Greene asked why he chose safety over running back (which he played in high school). De-fensive players have more control, Furlow said. They

are the hunters, not thehunted.

Safari Bahati asked whathe does now. Furlow said hetalks for a living and in hisspare time he reads, watch-es sports and travels. “Doyou get paid for that?” askedSafari.

“Yes, I do. Never say talkis cheap,” quipped Furlow.

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It’s budget time again, and it’s been three years since James McIntyre in-troduced his bold plan to improve Knox County Schools, which he proposed to fi nance with 35 million new dollars that would re-quire a 35-cent property tax increase.

His announcement was accompanied by consider-able fanfare and happy talk from the usual sources (the Chamber of Commerce, nu-merous progressive-mind-ed community leaders, most media outlets), which was amplifi ed by a bunch of TV commercials in heavy rota-tion.

It all came to naught when a groundswell of pro-tests from constituents opposing the tax increase drove county commission-ers in the other direction. In the end, the commission coughed up an additional $7 million for the schools, which would have been con-sidered generous in another year but seemed quite ane-mic in comparison to the

Lance Campbell, who has been the city’s real es-tate manager for less than two years, is leaving the city within the week. Not clear why he is leaving so soon. But it is clear he has been in business with Doug Gordon, who is the city’s delinquent tax attorney in the city law department and is responsible for identify-ing tax-delinquent proper-ties.

Gordon and Campbell are the two members of Box Turtle Properties, which is a corporation formed Sept. 11, 2014.

This corporation ap-parently buys and sells properties including one off Hiawassee Avenue sold on Jan. 6, 2015, to former state Sen. Stacey Camp-fi eld. It was valued at $100 but sold at $17,500. If they got $17,500 in the sale, the declared value of $100 seems in error or simply false. Perhaps it is missing two zeroes.

Campbell will soon be free to devote full time to this corporation while Gordon must continue to juggle his city duties with his private interest. While the information being used is public record and available to all, it does raise eyebrows that people who work on these issues for the city are at the same time running a private operation to do similar work.

The deeds were recorded during normal business hours with the Register of Deeds.

The good news here is that Judy Walton, for-mer state transportation right-of-way acquisition manager, now works for the city and is well qualifi ed to replace Campbell. City Hall has been mum on the replacement and also did not announce the resigna-tion as of the writing of this column.

Preservation: Over a decade ago, voters amended the city charter to require an annual report on the sta-tus of historic preservation. The actual work on this is done by Kaye Graybeal of MPC. She followed Ann Bennett, who had worked on historic preservation zoning issues for years prior to her retirement.

Graybeal is an able, knowledgeable staffer on MPC. She will present the 2014 report to MPC on

As a community, we spend a lot of time talk-ing about the benefi ts of bicycling. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our bodies. It’s pure joy for those of us who love cycling.

A group ride departs from Cedar Bluff Cycles two days after one of the store’s owners was seriously injured when a car turned in front of him during a ride. Photo by Wendy Smith

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April 16, and in turn it will go to City Council in one of the May meetings.

Recent mayors have failed to take advantage of this requirement to highlight historic preserva-tion. In fact, Mayor Rogero, while creating a fund for historic preservation proj-ects, for which her admin-istration can determine the winners, cut funding for Knox Heritage in last year’s city budget.

While Becky Wade, who is a friend of preservation and able, heads the dis-tribution of the $500,000 historic preservation fund, it is unclear how transpar-ent the process of picking the winners will be. Rog-ero’s communications offi ce failed to disclose as of this writing who by name serves on the evaluation commit-tee with Wade to rank the applicants. It is not clear if the actual rankings will be disclosed. There should be full transparency here since public money is involved.

MPC: Meanwhile, the search committee of six persons for the MPC direc-tor may have its fi nal meet-ing this afternoon (behind closed doors) to make a recommendation to Mayors Burchett and Rogero.

The two mayors must decide who it is and again it is unclear what happens if they cannot agree. It is down to three persons with two being University of Tennessee graduates.

Lowe: Former Knox County trustee Mike Lowe reports this Saturday, April 11, to the county jail to serve his one-year sentence for stealing over $300,000 from county taxpayers. He will likely serve only seven months. Most observers expect him to become a trusty in a matter of weeks, if not days, which will give him special privileges.

The county jail is oper-ated by Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones and he determines what happens there. He has hired several politi-cal friends such as former county commissioners.

Cyclists deserve same rights as drivers

But there’s a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville. Cyclists on the road are constantly threatened by distracted or resentful driv-ers, and they can’t always count on law enforcement to protect their rights. If you doubt it, ask Tim Rogers.

He’s one of four owners of Cedar Bluff Cycles. Dur-ing a group ride last week, a driver turned left in front of him into her Everett Road driveway. He was travel-ing over 30 miles per hour when he hit her hood, broke her windshield and landed in the grass on the opposite side of the car.

Tim is lucky. He was wearing a helmet. He didn’t hit a nearby telephone pole. But he went home from the emergency room with a fractured vertebra, major contusions and glass cuts.

Even though the accident happened in clear weather on a straight, fl at stretch of road, the driver wasn’t cited by the Knox County Sher-iff’s Offi ce deputy.

Cedar Bluff Cycles co-

owner Gerry Harms took Tim home from the hospi-tal. He was glad Tim didn’t re-injure a hip he fractured during another bike wreck eight weeks ago.

“He had nine lives, but he has one less now,” Gerry says.

Another co-owner, Bill Turner, came upon the ac-cident seconds after it happened. Bill had been dropped by the group, and Tim left the other riders to wait for his friend at the top of a hill. Bill told Tim to return to the group, and he was making his way back when the accident hap-pened.

Bill estimates the visibil-ity at the bottom of the hill was half a mile. The driver said she saw the group but didn’t see Tim. After check-

ing on Tim, Bill asked the offi cer if the driver had been cited, and he said no. When Bill asked why, the offi cer said it was at his discretion, and he thought it was an honest mistake.

According to Tennes-see Code Title 55, a bicycle is defi ned as a vehicle, and bicyclists are subject to the same rights and responsi-bilities as other drivers. Le-gally, this accident should have been handled as if one car pulled out in front of an-other.

Two members of my fam-ily made “honest mistakes” while driving last year. One rear-ended another vehicle, and one turned left in front of another vehicle. Neither accident resulted in injury, and both of my family mem-bers were cited – as they

should’ve been.The Knox County Sher-

iff’s Offi ce shared the ac-cident report but wouldn’t allow an interview with the offi cer who wrote it.

Bill says he is “totally baffl ed” that the driver wasn’t cited.

“This has torn me up,” he says. “We have rights just as automobiles do.”

Progressive cities wel-come – and protect – those who use bicycles for trans-portation and recreation. Offi cers who don’t give cy-clists the same rights as mo-torists reinforce the back-woods notion that bicycles belong only on greenways.

We’re making strides in creating a better infrastruc-ture for bicycles in East Tennessee. Changing minds may be a bigger challenge.

What about the teachers?

original request.One set of voices was

curiously silent on the tax increase, which gave com-missioners additional cover for voting against it. Where, they asked, were the teach-ers?

McIntyre took teacher support for granted since there was money in it for them, too. This was a seri-ous miscalculation, and one he has reprised every bud-get cycle since.

When she was elected president of the Knox Coun-ty Education Association, Sherry Morgan expected to be treated as every other KCEA president had been for the previous 28 years, i.e., be given unpaid leave by Knox County Schools so she could work full-time for the teachers association, which would pay her salary.

McIntyre refused to do that, and for months, Mor-gan continued teaching full-time while fulfi lling her du-ties as KCEA president. She was working 60-plus hours a week. She was so tired that she was falling asleep driving home, and her hus-band started driving her. McIntyre refused to meet with her.

Morgan fi nally got her leave time approved after the Legislature mandated collaborative conferencing in 2011 and the teachers voted to be represented by KCEA. The following year, the Legislature wrote man-datory leave time for educa-tion association presidents into something that was dubbed “Sherry’s Law.”

McIntyre’s big budget request came the following budget cycle. KCEA offi cers were summoned to his of-fi ce about two hours before he presented his proposal at the State of the Schools ad-dress but had no input into the process – KCEA sub-sequently voted to remain

neutral, and few teachers were among the yellow-shirted supporters who turned out to public meet-ings during the big push for the McIntyre plan.

Last week at the April school board meeting, KCEA president-elect Lau-ren Hopson provided a déjà vu moment when she criti-cized McIntyre’s handling of this year’s budget prob-lems – particularly the no-tion that there’s not enough money to pay teachers the promised APEX bonuses while making good on the long-stated goal of giving across-the-board raises.

“We were in this posi-tion last year and it was the hope that rather than cutting anything already in place, teachers would de-mand money from county commission,” Hopson said. “That didn’t happen – may-be because I’m not the only teacher who resents being used as a pawn between the school board and county c ommission.”

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families from participat-ing in all things book-relat-ed. A book swap, donated

books from Target and the Backyard Book Fair offered many opportunities for stu-dents to fi nd their favorite stories.

Hardin Valley Academy students Hannah Payne, Ethan Guthrie and Jake Wallace portray Baron-ess Elsa Schraeder, Capt. von Trapp and Max Detweiler, respectively, in “The Sound of Music.”

The von Trapps visit Hardin ValleyStudents in the musical

theater program at Har-din Valley Academy had planned to perform “The Sound of Music” even before they knew this was the 50th anniversary of the fi lm’s re-lease.

“We’re doing the origi-nal Broadway production, which features more songs than the movie,” said senior Jake Wallace, who plays Max Detweiler.

Teresa Scoggins, HVA’s choir director, said the pro-duction is a good opportuni-ty to display the talent and skill of her students, many of whom are graduating at the end of the year. “It’s a

good ensemble cast with a lot of main parts,” she said.

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will be performed 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, and 3 p.m. Sunday,

April 19. Admission is $8 ($5 for students) at the door.

Good friends Michaela Lavalle and Gavin Ralston share a book with Michaela’s stuff ed pet coati, Playa, during Ball Camp El-ementary School’s Dr. Seuss Thinking Hat Night. Photos by S. Barrett

Dr. Seuss Thinking Hat NightStudents loaned their

thinking caps to their par-ents during Ball Camp El-ementary School’s Dr. Seuss Thinking Hat Night.

School principal Bran-don Pratt discussed with parents the possibility of a balanced calendar for Knox County Schools before par-ents visited classrooms to see the “new” methods of teaching that have been in-troduced since they attend-ed elementary school.

Parents were given short examples of each subject so they could put themselves in their child’s shoes. Study hints and educational web-sites were also shared by teachers.

Regarding a balanced calendar, Pratt feels it might not be a bad thing. “I think it would be good to reduce the summer learn-ing loss, or the amount of time they have to lose what they’ve learned throughout the school year.” There are a few different options for a balanced calendar plan, including longer winter and spring breaks and a shorter summer break.

After talking to the par-ents, Pratt dressed as Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat and stayed with students who colored and read books while their parents went to the classrooms.

Kindergartner Ryan Irwin chooses a book almost as big as he is from books donated by Target.

Karns Elementary School kindergartner Alleigh Gregg gets a high-fi ve from physical education teacher Renee Graham after answering a question correctly from the Wheel of Fitness.

Getting cozy at Family Reading Night

Readers Theater was presented by students in ev-ery grade. Kids chose their favorite story to perform with friends, and craft sup-plies were available to make bookmarks in the cafeteria.

School principal Darlene Miller and assistant princi-pals Cyndee Casselman and Kimberle Harrison set up a cozy corner in the gym. A small lamp, a rocker and a soft rug were placed with several stuffed animals for students to cuddle as the administrators read their favorite books aloud.

Karns High students volunteered to help the el-ementary school students and tried not to blush when a teacher was overheard saying she remembered those same high school students hiding under the tables when they attended the elementary school.

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The Church disagrees.Easter is far too big an

event – world-changing, mind-boggling, soul-lift-ing news – to be confi ned to one day.

The Church declares that Easter is a week of weeks: seven Sundays are required to adequately celebrate such an event. And so Eastertide lasts for seven Sundays, and then the Church cel-ebrates another astound-ing event: Pentecost.

I grew up in a small, country church that tended to give Easter one Sunday and Christmas one Sunday. I was thrilled when I ventured into the wider world (and another denomination) where both holy days were given the attention they de-served.

I discovered Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Pentecost, and also

That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been known to them in the breaking of the bread.

(Luke 24:33-35 NRSV)

Easter isn’t over

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learned that there is such a thing as Ordinary Time.

So I began to pay atten-tion to those post-Easter appearances of Jesus. They must have been startling, to say the least, if not downright discon-certing.

Peter was not having any of it. He didn’t believe the women (who would believe a woman ‘s story in those days, anyway?), and so he had to go to the tomb to see for himself!

What he discovered there was a rolled-away stone and an empty tomb, where the grave clothes were folded neatly (Mary did a fi ne job raising that boy Jesus!), and there was no sign of a dead body.

Jesus was alive!

By Wendy SmithFamily No. 20, like any

family living in poverty, faces enormous challenges every day. Marcus has a job but doesn’t have a high school diploma, and he is secretly illiterate. His wife, Margo, also has a minimum-wage job but only works 30 hours per week. The couple have an 8-year-old daughter who is doing well in school in spite of the fact that she’s partially blind.

This is the profi le of a real family, and three local women had the opportu-nity to wrestle with their problems at the Cost of Pov-erty Experience (COPE), presented by Restoration House and Compassion Co-alition. The quarterly event gives those who have never struggled with poverty the chance to walk in the shoes of those who do.

Almost 50 participated in last week’s COPE, held at Fellowship Church. Most were affi liated with social service organizations or churches. One in six Knox County residents lives in poverty, said Jessica Bocan-gel of Compassion Coalition, and she asked participants to suspend their own reality while imagining themselves as one of those.

Each attendee was as-signed to a family, and each family profi le contained a set of challenges. Some were illegal aliens, single parents or seniors. Most had diffi culties like addic-tions, medical problems or criminal backgrounds. Each family was given the assign-ment of living through four weeks, each week being rep-resented by 15 minutes. The goal was for each family to be safe, and in a better fi -nancial position, at the end of the month.

On the surface, the as-signment seemed compli-cated, but doable. Each family had access to 16 re-sources, like a minimum-wage employer, a school, a “megamart” and a health clinic. But once the whistle sounded the beginning of the week, participants had to hustle to get children to school or day care before lining up to apply for a job or social services.

Transportation proved to be a major obstacle, which refl ects a reality for those in poverty. Carolyn Hanson of Compassion Coalition played the role of the hard-

Ben Johnson of Halls watches a timer that represents the time it would take to walk to work during the Cost of Poverty Expe-rience. Central Baptist Church of Bearden minister of missions and pastoral care Mark Moreland looks on. Photos by Wendy Smith

Cynthia Russell of Knox Area Rescue Ministries, pretending to be an unemployed college stu-dent, bargains with Compassion Coalition executive director Grant Standefer, who played the role of a pawn-shop owner during the Cost of Poverty Experience.

COPE off ers insight into poverty

nosed employer, and each employee had to show proof of car ownership, a bus pass or a “walking” pass – earned by waiting until a timer ran out – in order to clock in. Those with no transporta-tion had their pay docked or were fi red.

Distracted by the task of getting to work, or the doc-tor, some participants for-got to buy food or pay rent. One forgot a baby at the day-care center. One week, fami-lies had to contend with thereal-life challenge of chil-dren home for spring break.

Ben Johnson, a Com-passion Coalition board member, landed in mock jail when a stolen car stereo was found at his apartment. The event gave him a taste of the routine of those who are struggling fi nancially, he said.

“It’s a feeling of helpless-ness, of trying to put your best foot forward and slid-ing in the mud.”

Nancy Keeton was as-signed the role of the child in family No. 20. She is training to volunteer as an ally at Restoration House, and she thinks the event will help her understand the

diffi culties faced by single mothers.

“It will help to be able to think like they do, to realize how hard it is to survive.”

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By Anne HartAs fantastical as it may sound, if Alice

fell down the rabbit hole in North Knox-ville, she likely wouldn’t be surprised if she found herself at Fountain City Stained Glass when she landed.

For there, much to her delight, she would discover a delightful rabbit war-ren of sorts, nestled at the bottom of a huge three-story building, and fi lled with a wonderland of glass of every imaginable shape, size, color and pattern, much of it defying description but all of it fi lled with light and enchantment suffi cient to fi re the imagination of Lewis Carroll’s fi ctional traveler.

There’s probably even material for Al-ice’s magical looking glass gently tucked away somewhere in a cubby hole at the shop.

The place is a vir-tual and literal labo-ratory, glass museum and design studio where partners Gracie Jones and Katie Jones practice their art and teach it to oth-ers in a series of classes.

The two learned how to create stained glass and mosaic art from the late Vicki Jarmon, who opened the business more than 10 years ago.

Jarmon made the gorgeous Tiffany-style lamp proudly displayed on a high shelf at the shop, safely out of the reach of any boisterous children who might pass through when guided tours of the Foun-tain City Stained Glass studios are offered to the public as part of Dogwood Arts De-Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Friday and Saturday.

Right now, Gracie and Katie – who say they aren’t related (Jones is the married name of each) but laughingly fi nish each other’s sentences – are hard at work on a series of large leaded glass windows that will grace the new Kappa Delta Sorority chapter house at the University of Tennes-see.

Nearing completion, the windows are laid out on large tables in the studio’s

workroom, each piece of etched glass numbered and carefully positioned in its own spot on a paper pattern before being soldered permanently in place.

The custom windows are just one of a number of projects underway at the stu-dio.

An impressive piece just fi nished is a large, colorful stained glass rendering of a drawing of a guitar whimsically decorated with hearts and other images, the work of a very creative third-grader whose par-ents decided to memorialize their talented child’s artwork for posterity.

Fountain City Stained Glass also has mosaic art and has on display an assort-ment of colorful vases made of tiny pieces

of colorful glass in varying patterns.

In one room, bro-ken stained glass lamp shades and other stained glass items in various stages of re-pair or restoration are

being readied for clients.In another is a retail area where the

hobbyist or serious artist will fi nd every-thing they need to create stained glass or mosaic art. Equipment, tools and count-less types of glass are available.

Those items are always in high demand as a result of the classes in stained glass and mosaics that are taught from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

The retail aspect of Fountain City Glass is always especially busy around holidays as shoppers drop in to buy the ever-popu-lar sun catchers and brightly colored win-dow panels.

Fountain City Stained Glass is at 1328 Buchanan Ave., just off Broadway a couple of blocks toward downtown from I-640.

Go there prepared to stay a while. There’s a lot to see and learn. And of course, there are always those classes to further tempt you.

Info: 688-3333.

Gracie Jones with some of the art that hangs in the front window of Fountain City Stained Glass Photo by Anne Hart

Tour a wonderland of stained glass at Fountain City studios

By Betsy PickleEastwood. Huston.

Chaplin.Three of the four young

actors starring in Friday’s only wide release come with decades of fi lm histo-ry on their shoulders. The fourth, Robertson – well, she was great as Angie in the fi rst season of CBS’s “Under the Dome.”

“The Longest Ride,” based on a novel by Nicho-las Sparks, shifts between two love stories, both set

in North Carolina. One is in the present and has Britt Robertson as a young woman about to leave col-lege and go to New York to work in an art gallery when she meets a handsome bull rider (Scott Eastwood, son of Clint) who’s trying to make a comeback after a life-threatening injury.

The other takes place during the World War II era and features a young Jewish couple (Jack Hus-ton, grandson of director

John, nephew of Anjelica and Danny; and Oona Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie, daughter of Geral-dine) and their struggles.

Tying them together is Alan Alda, who plays the 91-year-old version of Huston’s character. He gives the modern-day couple insight into what it means to be in a relation-ship.

George Tillman Jr. (“Soul Food”) directed.

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY ■ “The Magic Flute” presented by the UT Opera Theatre at

the Bijou Theatre. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com, www.knoxbijou.com.

■ Vintage Baseball at Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Celebration of Vintage Baseball reception, 7-9 p.m. Friday. Doubleheader begins noon Saturday. No charge for the games; hotdogs, popcorn, beverages and more avail-able for purchase.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively

along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Fea-tures fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Tickets available now. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

■ Spring Home Design and Remodeling Show, Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St.

■ “SHREK: The Musical, Jr,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; 208-3677.

FRIDAY ■ Alive After Five concert: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra,

6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

■ Exmag and M!NT will perform, 9 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Presented by Midnight Voyage Productions and WUTK 90.3 The Rock. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 day of show. Info: internationalknox.com.

■ Haywood County Ramblers concert, Holly’s Corner, 842 N. Central St. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: m.bpt.me/event/1409964.

■ Hot Club of San Francisco: Cinema Vivant, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.

■ Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuegos perform, Fountain City Casual Pint, 4842 Harvest Mill Way. Swing jazz trio.

■ Stars on Stage Dinner Concert fundraising event, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: $400. Info/tickets: Tennessee Theatre box offi ce: 684-1200.

SATURDAY ■ Bracket Challenge and Hip-Hop for Hunger 2015, 7:30

p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Featuring Plun-derphonics, Good Guy Collective, The Exception, The Young Gunz and Bobby Fuego. Tickets: $5 requested donation at the door.

■ Cashore Marionettes, Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. “Simple Gifts,” 2 p.m.; “Life in Motion,” 8 p.m. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.

■ Color Me Rad 5K, 9 a.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum. Participants of all ages are welcome to run or walk. A portion of the proceeds will benefi t East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Info/to register: colormerad.com.

■ Esau’s Vendor Market, Jacob Building, Chilhowee Park, 3301 E. Magnolia Ave. Local antiques/crafts show.

■ Jazzspirations LIVE: Knoxville’s Smooth Jazz Concert Series, 7-9 p.m., Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: jazzspirationslive.com.

■ Magical Make Believe, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive. Centered on popular storybook characters Peter Cottontail and Cliff ord. Storytime, a bubble artist, magician and make-believe games. Children 12 and younger who come dressed as their favorite make-believe or storybook character will receive free admission. Info: knoxville-zoo.org.

■ Marble Springs Storytelling, 2-4 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Fundraiser for Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association. Bring chairs. Under the pavilion. Info: 573-5508; [email protected]; www.marblesprings.net.

■ “Music of Queen” performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra featuring guest conductor Brent Havens and vocalist Brody Dolyniuk, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: Box Offi ce, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444, 877-995-9961.

■ Valor Fights 22 Pro/Am MMA, 6 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Tickets: $35 general admission. Info: internationalknox.com.

By Carol ShaneThe Rhythm N’ Blooms

Music Festival, slated for this weekend in downtown Knoxville, grows more aus-picious every year.

Coming as it does on the heels of the Big Ears Festival – a nationally recognized event – Rhythm N’ Blooms seems like a warmer, fuzzi-er, down-home counterpart to the gathering of the big guns.

But this year’s festival is more varied and prestigious than you might expect.

Now in its fi fth year, the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival boasts an eclectic lineup. There’s everything from “high-energy gypsy punk grass” (Strung Like a Horse) to The Appalachian Hippie Poet (“his words are born from mountain, bottle and heart”) to one of Esquire magazine’s 2014 “15 Bands to Watch,” Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes.

Popular Knoxville main-stays Drive-By Truckers and the Dirty Guv’nahs will appear, along with many, many other unique and worthy acts.

Sarah Pirkle and Jeff Barbra have been involved with Rhythm N’ Blooms for several years and fondly re-member its early days.

“I’m really looking for-ward to playing a set with the Naughty Knots at Boyd’s Jig & Reel on Friday night,” says local singer/songwrit-er/fi ddler and radio host Pirkle. She and husband

Knoxville favorites Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle will be heading up the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festi-val’s Gospel Hour on Sunday, April 12. Photos submitted

Popular local roots musician Sarah Pirkle can’t wait for the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival.

Barbra will be hosting the festival’s Gospel Hour on Sunday, which she says will be “a treat for me. Then I’m hanging out the rest of the day en-j o y i n g the mu-sic. I’m r e a l l y s t o k e d to see JD McPherson!”

Now let’s talk about the headliners.

The Decemberists’ fi rst album, “Castaways and Cut-outs,” was released in 2002. In the realm of indie folk rock, these guys stood alone right out of the gate.

For one thing, they’re absolutely incredible mu-sicians, every last one of them, but that virtuosity is used in service of the whole. The Decemberists’ musical

visions are large and sweep-ing, but there’s not a grand-stander among them.

Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy’s distinctive, reso-

n a n t v o i c e l e n d s i t s e l f perfect-ly to his m e l o -

dies. Like James Mercer of the Shins, Meloy has a huge talent for songwriting, and one can’t imagine anyone else singing his composi-tions. He’s backed by acous-tic instruments such as bass viol, guitar and violin, but extra special to the mix is Jenny Conlee, whose un-derstated skill on the organ, piano and accordion adds much to the carefully con-sidered musical arrange-ments.

They played to a packed Tennessee Theatre in April 2007, and now they’re back in Knoxville, appearing on Sunday, April 12, as part of a national tour promot-ing their new album, “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World.”

Everything about the Decemberists, from their songwriting and perform-ing down to their album art and accompanying mer-chandise, seems beauti-fully handmade. Don’t miss them.

So if you’re in the mood to mingle with a lot of happy music lovers, check out the website at rhythmnblooms-fest.com where you’ll fi nd a full lineup and other details. You can even earn free tick-ets and other rewards. See you there!Send story suggestions to [email protected].

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By Betsy PickleYou’ve seen “the grass is always greener …” movies, but

you’ve never seen one like “While We’re Young.”A comedy with a kitchen sink that includes a couple’s

midlife crisis, shades of “Single White Female” and “Six Degrees of Separation” – and the buzzword of the decade, “connectivity” – “While We’re Young” beats any semblance of preciousness out of writer-director Noah Baumbach’s inside-New York mannerisms.

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play Josh and Cornelia, a Manhattan couple living in a Grand Canyon of a rut. Josh is a documentary fi lmmaker who has been working on his “latest” fi lm for eight years; he also lectures about doc-umentary fi lmmaking in an extended-learning program. Cornelia works as a producer for her father, Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin), a highly esteemed documentarian.

Josh keeps looking for “the truth” in his ever-lengthening fi lm, which is about war, er, poverty, er, America. Cornelia feels guilty about living in her father’s shadow. They both wonder if they should have tried harder to have a child.

Their stale, tech-device-dominated lives are disrupted when they meet Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a young couple whose existence is everything Josh and Cornelia’s is not.

Jamie, an aspiring documentarian himself, goes gaga over Josh, spreading lavish praise on his acclaimed fi rst documentary, which was barely seen. Darby makes artisan ice cream in unusual fl avors.

Jamie and Darby roller-blade through the streets, es-chew modern technology in favor of VHS tapes and vinyl

records, and generally seem spontaneous in every way. Josh falls hard for them, especially with Jamie constantly seeking his advice and help. Cornelia is a bit more skepti-cal, but she gets pulled into the energy of the couple as well.

Jamie’s charisma is undeniable, but there’s something off about it. Josh, who has embraced Jamie’s free

spirit, begins to suspect that he’s made a mis-take in his new friend.

The midlife crisis depicted in “While We’re Young” captures a slice of reality in a way few fi lms have done before. It’s funny, yet introspective and sympa-thetic. It reveals the amazing concept that there is middle ground between feeling dead inside and trying to be-come someone you’re not.

As for the more external, structured plot – it’s a comedic quicksand that feels

like Hitchcock Light. Stiller is perfect as things go south in a major way, and Driver is astonishing as his Phillip Vandamm (think “North by North-west”).

Baumbach’s hilarious observations give more screen time to the male leads, but Watts and Seyfried balance

them with honest performances that have a real weight. Grodin is a delight, playing off his crotchety persona with an extra serving of likability.

The cast includes two legendary music fi gures in unex-pected roles. Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary fame plays the expert in Josh’s fi lm, and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys plays Josh’s erstwhile best friend, a new father.

“While We’re Young” shows Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”) at his sharpest. It’s a message fi lm that hides behind a nearly solid wall of comedy.

Rated R for language.

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Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) review some of their life choices in “While We’re Young.”


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By Bonny C. MillardA recent grant award by

the Rotary Club of Knoxville will help Beaumont Magnet Academy purchase almost 700 new books, school li-brarian Molly Moore said.

Moore, who’s been at the school for about three years, recently spoke to the club and said this gift will help update the school’s library. In addition to this, Beau-mont is already this year’s weekly recipient of a donat-ed book signed by meeting speakers.

“This is going to get kids excited about reading,” Moore said of the addition of new books. Currently, many of the school library’s books are out-of-date, par-ticularly in areas such as scientifi c information.

“Our library books are old,” she said. “Their aver-age shelf age is 20 years. There are lots of books that are older than me on my shelves. I try to pull them as I fi nd them.”

Moore said she has an annual budget of $3,200 to purchase new books.

The Rotary grant in-cludes $5,000 from the lo-cal club and $5,000 in dis-trict matching funds.

Beaumont is a unique school in that it offers fi ne arts and honors programs and is a museum school as well, she said. The school is a Title 1 school, with 75 percent of its students eco-

Molly Moore,

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Rotary gifts books to Beaumont

nomically disadvantaged.Even though it offers

specialized program-ming, the school is in a literacy crisis with many of the students

below reading level. Moore said 85 percent

of fi fth-graders are below profi ciency levels.

“We know we’re in a cri-sis at Beaumont,” she said. “We’re doing everything that we can. Our adminis-trators this year have to-tally changed everything around. Every teacher in the building has a small reading group … . We’re do-ing radical things at Beau-mont to try to get our kids up to level.”

By Betty BeanMost of Bubba’s Barrels’

customers are out of state, or international, even. But the destination of the shiny steel barrel sitting in Bub-ba’s front parking lot last Tuesday was Crafty Bas-tard Brewery, opening this spring three miles south of Bubba’s in Emory Place. The transaction is an example of the community that Carl Clements wanted to join when he settled on Knox-ville as his adopted home-town six years ago.

“We’ve gotten an amaz-ing amount of support from local business owners,” said Clements, a burly, bearded, overall-wearing guy whose business has gone from zero to more than $1 million in annual revenue in four years. (We’ll resist the urge to say he’s “barrel-chested” because it’s too easy.)

The 46-year-old Texan traveled the world after graduating from Texas A&M: two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, most of another year traveling around the continent, mul-tiple road trips across the U.S. and considerable busi-ness traveling on his previ-ous job selling durable med-ical equipment.

“I made the good money, had the good life – selling the parts that make cell phones work. I still do that so I won’t have to draw a sal-ary out of this business,” he said.

So how did he decide on Knoxville?

“I went to North Carolina a lot and had a good Peace Corps friend in Knoxville. One day I looked at my phone and saw more 865

numbers than anywhere else. Knoxville’s a good place to live, a scallywag town. Most of the people who lived here sided with the North in the Civil War.

“I don’t want to live in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I love living in the South without having to live in Birmingham to do it.

“We’re geographically in the South, and it’s a middle-class town with lots more amenities than we deserve for our size. I really like Knoxville, except for his-toric districts that think we need to be wealthy to live in them.”

So he found a house in North Hills and made quick connections in the music scene. Two years later, he started the barrel business in his basement.

“I bought some used bar-rels. Then I bought three more. Then I bought 40 more,” he said. “Then some-body calls and asks, ‘Can you put a drain in that?’

“‘Sure,’ I say. But I had no idea …”

He remembers sitting on his back porch drinking beer with his friend Dan Lipe, who subsequently de-signed the Bubba’s Barrels website.

“I told him if I could sell $40,000 a year, gross, that’d be great. That would mean I’d make about $10,000. We’ve doubled in size every year since then. Last year, we did $1 million. This year, I expect to do $1.4 million. When I became a viable business, I started paying him. That’s how it works.”

After a while, he rented a space on Pembroke in the shadow of Sharp’s Ridge.

Bubba makes ‘scallywag’ business

Carl Clements Photo by Ruth White

When business picked up, he built an outbuilding in the backyard. Grinding barrels is a noisy undertak-ing, and it’s good to be in an out-of-the-way spot that’s conveniently close to Broad-way.

In a few weeks, he and his four full-time employees, plus his feisty Jack Russell terrier Brandy, will move a couple of blocks north to a 13,000-square-foot ware-house on Buchanan Street (compared to 3,000 square

feet of covered space in their present location), where they will stock an inventory of accessory parts and turn out even more stainless-steel drums, barrels, brew kettles, smokers, boilers and conical fermenters.

Clements, who says he’s known as “an employer of wayward musicians around town,” is fl exible about em-ployees’ schedules.

“As an employer, I’ve re-ally tried to make this a place that doesn’t suck.”

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By Anne HartKay Watson Helton, di-

rector of development for Alzheimer’s Tennessee, says there’s a good reason we have all heard the old saw that tying a string around our fi nger will keep us from forgetting something im-portant. It’s no old wives’ tale. It’s actually based in scientifi c fact.

Helton told members of the Rotary Club of Bearden that a nerve in the index fi nger “aggravates the hip-pocampus, the part of the brain linked to memory.” That string, or ribbon, around the fi nger actually works.

The purple ribbons they tie around their fi ngers and the color purple itself are particularly signifi cant to supporters of Alzheimer’s Tennessee. In fact, the color purple has become so iconic to the organization that even its headquarters build-ing on Kingston Pike across from Buddy’s Bearden Ban-quet Hall is purple.

The ribbons are worn as

reminders of the Alzheim-er’s 25th annual WALK to raise awareness of the disease. That event will be Saturday, April 18, and will involve literally thousands of walkers and volunteers who have been working on this year’s project since last year’s ended.

The event will be at UT Gardens starting with reg-istration at 9 a.m. There will be music, games, food and entertainment for chil-dren and their pets. Open-ing ceremonies will be at 10 a.m. and will feature door prizes, races and contests. The ribbon cutting for the WALK will be at 11 a.m. In the event of rain, “party and pets will move indoors.”

Helton said that when her organization was formed in 1983, “not many people knew about Alzheimer’s, but they do now.” An estimated 120,000 Tennesseans are affl icted with the disease. Each individual is attended to by about four people who are also deeply affected by the disease. The local offi ce

Purple ribbons a reminder of

receives about 300 calls a day from those seeking help for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Helton said that of the many programs and wide range of support offered by her organization, among the most critical is educating law enforcement and fi rst responders about the dis-ease so that they are aware a person who appears drunk, drugged or disoriented may actually be suffering from dementia.

Info: 544-6288 or alz-Tennessee.org.

Andy McCall, Haynes Smith, Fran Smith, Kay Watson Helton, James Sutton and Larry

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Art teachers Michele Gray and Laura Lee Thompson (not pic-tured) organized the event, including student art scrapbooks made from up-cycled used books.

At left, Karns Elemen-tary School students Yessell Araujo, 10, and Marleen Rodriguez, 10, wow the crowd with a two in one jump rope routine during A Night of the Arts held at the school April 2.

Elementary school students, kindergarten through fi fth grade, cre-ated more than 1,000 paintings lining every wall of the building.

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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK

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FORE!Excellent Orthopedic Care

Andrew Kasmer can now enjoy his normal activi-ties without pain, following his total shoulder re-placement at Parkwest Medical Center.

Joint concernVonore man says shoulder replacement ‘like a miracle’

His mama tried telling him, but like many invincible teenagers, he didn’t listen.

“I was going to play football in high school, and she said, ‘You know all that banging around, someday you’ll really be sorry you did that,’ ” Andrew Kasmer recalled. “That was her assess-ment. She was right – 100 percent right.”

Now 75, Kasmer, a retired in-surance broker, understands his mother’s concern as he feels the wrath of time and the toll that football, golf and a fencing busi-ness has taken on his body.

He’s had about a dozen surger-ies, including two knee replace-ments, a hip replacement and back surgery. Arthritis ensnares his body, and an infl ammatory disorder called polymyalgia rheu-matica (PMR) taunts him with constant pain.

But Andrew Kasmer is a happy man because his left shoulder feels great. That, he says, is because of the total shoulder replacement he received last September from orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard Cunningham at Parkwest Medical Center.

“The things they can do in medicine now … they are like little miracles,” said Kasmer as he sat in his Tellico Village home in Vo-nore. “That’s how this shoulder feels – like a miracle. I’ve got a lot of pain in my body, but in my shoulder, I have no pain. It’s really something!”

It was a far different story be-fore the surgery, when Kasmer’s shoulder pain was constant. “It was like having a toothache,” he says. “I take pain medication for the PMR, but even with that, I would still have the nagging pain

Preventing shoulder injuriesThe shoulder has a wide range of mo-

tion, which has its benefi ts and draw-backs. While it’s the most fl exible joint in the body, Dr. Richard Cun-ningham, board-certifi ed orthope-dic surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center, says that fl exibility tends to make the shoulder unstable and easily hurt.

Keeping your shoulders strong can reduce the risk of injury. Stay active and add exercises to your workout focusing on your shoulders, neck and back. Make sure you do an equal amount of pushing and pulling in weight training so the back of your shoul-der gets the same muscle-bui ld ing action as the front.

Stretching exer-cises, range of motion move-ments and good posture are other proac-tive ways to help

your shoulder resist injury. But there are also some things to avoid:

■ Don’t carry objects that are too heavy, and make sure you carry bags and backpacks cor-rectly.

■ Try not to overuse your shoulders in a repetitive, stress-ful motion. For example, if you’re painting a ceiling and holding your arms over your head for an extended period of time, schedule frequent breaks to rest your shoulder and apply ice if you feel pain.

■ If you think your job may be causing injury to your shoulders, talk to your hu-

man resources depart-ment about fi nding al-

ternatives to get the job done. Modifi cations to equipment might be an option.

■ Avoid overhead or outstretched activity with the

shoulder. Keep ob-jects you must lift close

to your body.

Shouldering the painShoulder problems come in several different forms, from dis-

location and separation to fractures and arthritis. If you’ve in-jured your shoulder, the tried and true RICE method is usually the best fi rst course of action:

Rest – Resist using the shoulder for 48 hours.

Ice – Apply an ice pack for 20 minutes every couple of hours.

Compression – Put even pressure on the injured area using a bandage or wrap.

Elevation – Keep the injured area above your heart and place a pillow under your shoulder when you lie down.

If the pain persists or worsens, see your doctor for diagnosis and treatment. If you don’t have a family physician, call Park-west at 865-374-PARK (7275) for help in fi nding one near you.

ing through physical therapy fol-lowing a previous surgery, threw a six-pound medicine ball. “I was really putting a lot of emphasis on throwing it down hard, having it bounce up, and I think that might have had something to do with it.”

But then again, Kasmer says, it could’ve been any number of things that caused it. Not only did he play football in high school, he played middle linebacker and blocking fullback for a season in college. Later, his life was fi lled with golf – three and four times a week. “We’d even play with fl ash-lights in the dark,” he says.

But when Dr. Cunningham X-rayed Kasmer’s shoulder, his di-agnosis was severe arthritis. “His was much more severe than most people who undergo a total shoul-der replacement,” he said.

“It’s possible that he could have had some post-traumatic arthri-tis – that could’ve been part of it,” said Dr. Cunningham. “I don’t think (throwing the medicine ball) was the whole reason for the arthritic changes. Certainly, inju-ry can predispose you to arthritis down the road.”

“All the cartilage was gone and there were big bone spurs in there,” said Kasmer, recalling the X-rays. “The right shoulder is in as bad shape as the left one, but it doesn’t bother me.”

Despite the pain, Kasmer – al-ready having had more than his share of surgeries – decided to postpone Cunningham’s recom-mendation for a total shoulder replacement. By last September, he’d had all he could take.

“I just got to the point where I wanted to get something done with it, fi nd out what I could do. He had the right answer for it.

That was for sure,” said Kasmer.In little more than an hour,

Dr. Cunningham removed the ball part of Kasmer’s shoulder, replaced that with a new ball and stem and resurfaced his arm sock-et.

“After the operation was over, Isaid, ‘Doctor, how was it in there?’and he said, ‘It was a mess.’ That’s how he described it. Almost rightafter I had the surgery done, the pain started going away and be-fore I knew it, my shoulder hadfull mobility and no pain when Imoved it.”

Likewise, his physical therapistwas amazed by the difference. “Hecould hardly believe what he was seeing because I had such mobil-ity right off the bat. I could reach,I could put my hands behind myback better, I was much more mo-bile. He was astounded at how well it came out. Of all the surger-ies I have had, this was by far the most user-friendly one. It was justthat good.”

“He had a lot of issues, a lot ofcomplications. So that was con-cerning to begin with,” said Dr.Cunningham. “It makes it even more remarkable to see how well he’s done. I really didn’t expect him to do as well as he’s done as quickly as he has considering all that he’s been through before. Itell patients to expect six monthsfor a full recovery, but he’s well ahead of the curve.”

Kasmer says he owes that to Dr. Cunningham and Parkwest Medical Center. “Dr. Cunningham is really attentive, calming and reassuring,” said Kasmer. “Thiswas a major operation, but I camethrough it so well. … It’s almost like a miracle. I really like Park-west.”

all the time, didn’t make any dif-ference what I was doing, it was still there. Any movement made it

that much more painful.”The pain fi rst appeared more

than a year ago when Kasmer, go-

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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Samuel Strang Nicklin (1876-1932)

Chattanooga native Samuel Strang Nick-lin, also known as

Sammy Strang during his major league baseball ca-reer, had starred in both football and baseball at the University of North Caro-lina and the University of Tennessee.

He came home after serving as a fi rst lieutenant in the Spanish-American war (1898) to play minor league baseball at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Wheeling, W.Va., and St. Joseph, Mo. He was called up to the big leagues in 1901 to play for John McGraw’s New York Giants, mostly at third base but also at second base and in the outfi eld.

Noted for his speed run-ning the bases and chasing down fl y balls, he had his fi nest season in the ma-jors in 1906, when he stole a career-high 49 bases and led the league in on-base percentage. His big league career lasted from 1901 to 1908, over half of it with the Giants. He had a phenom-enal on-base percentage of .377, having scored 100 runs in both 1902 and 1903.

Sammy’s ebullient per-sonality made him a favor-ite of baseball writers, fans and fellow players. But he had his serious side, too. He had a passion for singing, and his childhood friend Oscar Seagle, who became a world-renowned baritone, urged Sammy to study in Paris under Jean de Reszke, the most famous male opera singer in the late 19th centu-ry, succeeded by Enrico Ca-ruso. Sammy had a “grand and golden baritone,” and his voice became even more “rich, full, vibrating, touch-ing the heart strings.” He entertained his teammates on long train rides and ap-peared onstage singing the popular songs of the day and his own compositions.

Perhaps his greatest ac-complishment came later when he became the head baseball coach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Coach Sammy Strang still maintains the highest winning percentage of any Army baseball coach, with an astounding .711 percent-age during his career at the military academy (1909-1917).

Strang coached many cadets who rose to promi-nence in the Army, includ-

ing many future three-, four- and fi ve-star gener-als who fought in WWII. Among the most famous were (year of graduation in brackets): Jacob Devers (1909), commander of the Sixth United States Army Group in the European the-ater; Alexander Patch (1913) commander of the U.S. Army and United States Ma-rine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal campaign and the Seventh Army in France and Germany; Omar Brad-ley (1915), U.S. Army fi eld commander in North Africa and Europe and General of the Army from the Norman-dy landings to the end of the war in Europe; and Robert Neyland (1916), aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur while he was superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1919-1922) and commander of supply services in Calcutta, India.

When he was asked to name those who most shaped his direction in life while at West Point, Ney-land replied that Coach Strang was one of the four along with Charles Daly, coach of the football team.

A native of Texas, Ney-land had come to the acad-emy in 1912 and gradu-ated four years later having achieved academic success and a 35-5 record as pitcher for the baseball team, in-cluding one stretch of 20 consecutive wins.

He captained the team in his senior year and remains the Army career leader in pitching victories. He also pitched the fi rst no-hitter in Army baseball history in 1914. Probably more im-portant to him was the fact that he emerged victorious over the Navy team all four years. Neyland was also a star end on the football team, played on the national championship team in 1914 and won the heavyweight boxing championship in his senior year.

He was recruited to play professional baseball by the New York Giants, Detroit Ti-gers and Philadelphia Athlet-ics but instead went to World War I as soon as he gradu-ated, serving in France.

Much later, Gen. Ney-land would serve three stints as the head football coach at UT (1926-1934, 1936-1940, and 1946-1952). He compiled a .829 win-ning percentage over 21

seasons and won 173 games out of the 216 his teams played. He also had six un-defeated seasons (including Bowl trips), nine undefeat-ed regular seasons, seven conference championships and four national champi-onships. In 1938 and 1939, Neyland’s teams set NCAA records by shutting out 17 straight opponents, and the 1939 team was the last football team in NCAA his-tory to hold every regular-season opponent scoreless.

He was an innovator, too, credited with being the fi rst coach to use sideline telephones and game fi lms to study opponents. His team was one of the fi rst to use tear-away jerseys to enhance his trademark elu-siveness and fulfi ll his mot-to “speed over strength.” Among his fellow coaches he is probably best known for his “Seven Maxims of Winning Football.”

Who could doubt that Neyland’s Maxims had their genesis in his West Point years under Coach Strang, who coached base-running and batting technique as the hallmarks of a winning team? Strang taught these seven basic rules for suc-cessful hitting:

■ 1. Assume a comfortable and

relaxed stance.

■ 2. Keep your bat on your

shoulder; don’t pump,

wriggle, or twist yourself into

a tense position.

■ 3. Be ready. Go back slowly

with your bat as the pitcher

prepares to deliver the ball.

■ 4. Start your swing as the ball

leaves the pitcher’s hand.

■ 5. Keep your eye on the ball.

Stop your swing if the pitch

doesn’t look good.

■ 6. If continuing the swing,

time the ball. Try to meet it

well in front of your body.

■ 7. “Golf” a low pitch, “club” a

high pitch.

Sammy Strang returned to Tennessee shortly before his father’s death in 1919 to own and manage the strug-gling Chattanooga Lookouts in the Southern League. He was credited with turning the franchise around and sold the team (for which he had paid nothing) for a re-ported $75,000 in 1927.

At only 55 years of age, Samuel Strang Nicklin died in Chattanooga of a perfo-rated ulcer on March 13, 1932. He is buried in the National Cemetery there.

1915 West Point Baseball Team. There were six future WWII generals on the team, including

Bradley, Neyland and Devers, who are the three men standing on the right with the assistant

manager on the end. Coach S. Strang Nicklin is wearing the business suit, second from the left. Photo courtesy of University of Tennessee Special Collections

Part II: Robert R. Neyland’sWest Point baseball coach

REUNION NOTES ■ Central High School Class

of 1980 35th reunion, 6-10

p.m. Saturday, June 27, The

Foundry, 747 World’s Fair Park

Drive. Info/register: “Central

High School Class of 1980” on

Facebook or Melody Majors

Johnson, 423-798-0880.

■ Fulton High Class of 1953

will hold its 62nd reunion

5-9 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at

Fox Den Country Club, 12284

N. Fox Den Drive. Cost: $30

due by April 27. Info: Wanda

Warwick, 689-6709, or Wilma

Patterson, 984-7735.

■ Halls High Alumni Banquet

will be held Saturday, April

25, in the Halls High School

cafeteria. The Class of 1965

will be recognized. The

banquet is a “covered dish”

format, so main dishes, side

dishes, drinks and desserts

are requested. Food set-up

and social time will be 6-6:30

p.m., food will be served at

6:30 with music provided by

the Halls High Jazz and the

program will begin at 7:30

p.m.

■ Halls High Class of 1965

will hold its 50th reunion 6

p.m.-midnight Friday, April 24

at Beaver Brook Country Club,

6800 Beaver Brook Drive.

Cost: $45 due by April 17.

Info: Pat Humphrey West, 922-

8857; Jeanette McMillan Raby,

983-2861; or Roy Warwick,

441-7452.

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CADILLAC CTS 2007. Loaded. Exc.cond. Garaged. 75k mi, silver. $11,900. (865)588-6860; 399-8792

CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2004. V6, AT, leather, new tires, 1 owner, smokerfree, $6000. (865)523-8736.

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bed liner, great mechanical shape,stick shift, chrome wheels, CD play-er, Oak Ridge, one owner 55,820 mi.,$4,500. (865)482-9766.

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Sports and Imports

BMW 328I 2013. hard top convertible, loaded, auto, 10K mi.,

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HONDA PRELUDE 1988, 2 dr, 4 cyl AT, 180K miles,

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Nissan Titan 2006, 5.6LE Crew Cab,124K mi, leather int., cruise, AC,runs great, $8,750. 207-522-3627

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UTILITY TRAILERSAll Sizes Available

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Vans

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Classic Cars

1979 VW Super Beetle Conv., all orig.,1 owner, all books & records, 73Kactual mi, yellow, tan int., $10,500obo. 865-679-6836

CHEVY CORVETTE - 1992. Convertible,red w/white top, runs & looks great, 92K mi., $8,500. (865)235-5814.

FORD HARD TOP 1956 VICTORIA. Compl. restoration. 300 mi. onrebuilt eng. $15,000. (865)333-0615.

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Auto Parts & Acc

Nitto M/T 35x12.50R20LT Trail Grap-pler, 800 mi, 4 @ $350 ea. 239-200-5191

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

18’ BOW RIDER 8-pass., only 38 hrs,215 HP, Challenger 180 SE, gorgeous, w/trailer. $12,750. 865-250-8079.

BAY BOAT - Exc. cond. 23’ Rang-er, 230C, twin 200 HP Johnsons, $15,000. New alum. trlr, $5000.(865)333-0615.

Boat 2000 Four Winns 268 Vista, exc shape, radar arch, full canvas, lowhrs, on lift, reg. gas, Tellico Village. $35,000. Alan, 423-371-9050.

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2000 PACE ARROW VISION - 36’, 2 slides, twin air & heat, W&D, ref w/ice maker, all opt. 23K mi, $35,000.

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(865)945-3862.

CHATO SPORT BY THOR 2006 MH Class C 29R, low mi., many new updates,$29,000 obo. (865) 414-1490.

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Garage Sales

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BIG GARAGE SALE - April 9, 10 & 11, 9 a.m. - ?. 7409 Blacks Ferry Rd offWest Emory Rd.

West

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Farm Equipment

MASSEY FERGUSON 175 TRACTOR -Good cond. 28,070 hrs. Runs good.Needs brakes & clutch. $6000 cash.Bush Bull, 6’, $2000. (865)405-8316

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Antiques

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Appliances

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5 New Rolltop Metal Doors: (1) 16’x14’H, (2) 14’x8’H, (2) 14’x14”H.865-458-5164

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2 SIDE BY SIDE Cemetary. lots in Greenwood Cemetery, $1500 ea. (865)588-6385

CEMETERY LOTS - 4 lots LynnhurstCemetery. Monument rights. $8,000, (865)922-5227

ESTATE SALE - 2 mausaleum crypt spaces loc. at Highland MemorialPark Sutherland Ave. $5950 total. Owner deceased. Buried at alter-nate location. Contact Estate Exec-utor at (865)405-8130

HIGHLAND - Highland Memorial, Gos-pels Sec. 2 lots side by side, $1200each. 904-540-3836

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BUYING COMIC BOOKS small or lg. collections.

Phone 865-368-7499

Metal Buildings


8’wx9’hx40’Store tools, equip., feed, cars, etc.

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Announcements

Adoptions

ADOPT: A loving couple longs to adopt your newborn into a home filled with unconditional love, warmth & security. Expenses paid. Kim &

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ADOPTION:Loving couple promises your baby a

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Real EstateSales

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I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES.

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Mobile Homes/Lots

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house.

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FARRAGUT BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMENwill hold a public hearing on

April 23, 2015 • 7:00 PMFarragut Town Hall

11408 Municipal Center Dr to hear citizens’ comments on the following ordinance:

1. Ordinance 15-04, to rezone portions of Lot 3 of the Smith Property, portions of Parcels 59 and 59.07, Tax Map 152, located at 11739 Turkey Creek Road and portions of Parcel 15, Group B, Tax Map 153I, located at 735 Anchor Villas Lane, from R-1 to R-1/OSMR and R-1/OSMR to R-1 (Rackley Engineering, Applicant)

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AGENDAFARRAGUT BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN

April 9, 2015WORKSHOP 6:00 PM

Equipment Fund, CIP & State Street Aid & Discussion of Agreement with KUB for Gas Relocation on Everett Road

BMA MEETING, 7:00 PMI. Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call

II. Approval of Agenda

III. Mayor’s Report

IV. Citizens Forum

V. Approval of Minutes

A. March 26, 2015

VI. Ordinances

A. First Reading 1. Ordinance 15-04, Ordinance to rezone portions of Lot 3 of the Smith Property, portions of Parcels 59 and 59.07, Tax Map 152, located at 11739 Turkey Creek Road and portions of Parcel 15, Group B, Tax Map 153I, located at 735 Anchor Villas Lane, from R-1 to R-1/OSMR and R-1/OSMR to R-1 (Rackley Engineering, Applicant)

VII. Town Administrator’s Report

VIII. Town Attorney’s Report

It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations due to disabilities, please call 865-966-7057 in advance of the meeting.

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April 16, 20157:00 PM • Farragut Town Hall

For questions please either e-mail Mark Shipley at [email protected] or Ashley Miller at [email protected] or call them at 865-966-7057.1. Citizen Forum2. Approval of agenda3. Approval of minutes – March 19, 20154. Discussion and public hearing on a preliminary plat for Phase 2 of the Briarstone Subdivision (formerly the Villas at Anchor Park Subdivision property) located on the north side of Turkey Creek Road across from Anchor Park, a portion of Parcel 59, Tax Map 152, 19.37 Acres (Saddlebrook Properties, LLC, Applicant)5. Discussion and public hearing on a fi nal plat for the Hanover Court Subdivision, located on Old Stage Road at the S. Watt Road intersection, Parcels 94.02 and 94.03, Tax Map 151, Zoned R-1 and R-4, 36 Lots, 9.87 Acres (Matthew Sturgill, LLC, Applicant)6. Discussion and public hearing on a request to rezone Parcel 36, Tax Map 142, 12422 Union Road, 25.75 Acres, from R-2 to R-1/OSR (Homestead Land Holdings, LLC, Applicant)7. Discussion and public hearing on a concept plan for Union Grove Subdivision, located on Union Road, Parcel 36, Tax Map 142, Zoned R-2, 50 Lots, 25.75 Acres (Homestead Land Holdings, LLC, Applicant)8. Discussion and public hearing on a request to amend the 2012 Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the property located at 12639 Kingston Pike, 30.13 Acres, from Medium Density Residential and Low Density Residential to Commercial (Horne Real Estate, LLC, Applicant)9. Discussion on a request to rezone Parcel 58, Tax Map 151, 12639 Kingston Pike, 30.13 Acres, from R-2 and Floodplain to C-1 and Floodplain (Horne Real Estate, LLC, Applicant)10. Discussion on a request to rezone Parcels 54.01, 57, and a portion of 54, Tax Map 151, 12723, 12733 and 12743 Union Road, 111.5 Acres, from A to R-1/OSR (Development Ventures, G.P., Applicant)11. Discussion on a request to amend the 2012 Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the property located to the west of Village Veterinary and to the east of the former Phillips 66 on Kingston Pike, 16.23 Acres, from Offi ce/Light Industrial to Mixed Use Town Center (Craig Allen, Applicant)12. Discussion on a request to rezone Parcel 131, Tax Map 142, located to the west of Village Veterinary and to the east of the former Phillips 66 on Kingston Pike, 16.23 Acres, from O-1 to TCD (Craig Allen, Applicant)13. Discussion and public hearing on the FY 2016-2020 Capital Investment Plan14. Public hearing on proposed locations for new utilities

It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for

Changing Times, a Brown Bag Lecture by Laura Cope Overbey, Curator of Collections at Biltmore Estates, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.

Easy Breathing with the Alexander Tech-nique, 2-4 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Preregistra-tion required. Info/to register: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, APRIL 8-9AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 5-9

p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $10. 8-hour course approved by the state of Tennes-see for insurance premium discounts for eligible drivers over age 55. Info/to register: 862-9250 or 862-9252.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love,

Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community

Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is com-posed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, [email protected].

Instrumental concert, 7 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Clayton Performing Arts Center, Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The event is free and the community is invited. Info: 694-6400 or www.pstcc.edu/arts.

Navigating Your Joy in Life luncheon, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Hosted by Knoxville Christian Women’s Connec-tion. Cost: $12 inclusive. Complimentary child care is by reservation only. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or [email protected].

The Grace Notes Flute Choir in concert, 7 p.m., Blount County Library, 508 N Cusick St., Maryville. Open to the public. Info: 982-0981 or www.blountlibrary.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10Cinema Vivant, an evening of vintage silent fi lms

accompanied by live gypsy swing music, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: $19 to $36. Info/tickets: 981-8590; www.claytonartscen-ter.com; knoxvilletickets.com.

Festival of Cultures, 4-8:30 p.m. Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free to attend; the community is invited. Cultural booths and exhibits, music, food, chil-dren’s activities. Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or 694-6400.

Jubilee! A tribute to Guy and Candie Carawan, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Admission is free. Info: Bradley Reeves or Eric Dawson, 215-8856.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 10-11Used book sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Farragut Branch

Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

SATURDAY, APRIL 11AARP Driver Safety class, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,

Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Road, Oak Ridge. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is com-posed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, [email protected].

Composting class, 2 p.m., community garden of Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Instructor: Bob Grimac. Class is free and no registration required. To reserve a wire compost bin for $7.50: [email protected] or 546-5643.

Farragut Book Fest for Children, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Founders Park at Campbell Station. Free and open to the

public. Activities include storytelling, book signings, music, art activities, face painting, cookie decorating and the Ruff Reading Program. Free hot dogs, popcorn and lemonade available beginning at 11 a.m. while supplies last. Info: Lau-ren Cox, [email protected] or 966-7057.

Farragut Family Fun Day, 9 a.m.-noon, Farragut High Football complex. Hosted by Farragut Youth Cheer and Farragut Youth Football. Features: an infl atable, popcorn, snow cones and cotton candy.

Plant sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., UT Gardens, located UT agriculture campus on Neyland Drive. All proceeds will benefi t the UT Gardens. Info: utgardens.tennessee.edu.

RB Morris with Greg Horne & Daniel Kimbro will perform, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Tea & Treasures 2nd Saturday Marketplace, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 4104 W Martin Mill Pike. Vendor booths in-clude arts & crafts, antiques, plants, books, food and music.

The 51st annual Talahi Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Lakeshore Park, 6410 S. Northshore Drive. All proceeds ben-efi t the Knoxville Community. Admission and parking: free.

“To Prune or Not to Prune … That is the Ques-tion!” program by Knox County Master Gardeners, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Free and open to the public. Info: 588-8813.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12Sing Out Knoxville, a folk singing circle open to

everyone, will meet 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Uni-tarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: [email protected] or 546-5643.

MONDAY, APRIL 13Binding the Edge of the Quilt Class: 9:15 a.m.-

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Staged Reading of “Tuesdays with Morrie” presented by the WordPlayers, 7:30 p.m., The Square Room, 4 Market Square. Admission is free, reservations not required. Info: 539-2490 or wordplayers.org.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 13-14AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tellico

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TUESDAYS, APRIL 14-MAY 19Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., community room

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F inbarr Saunders doesn’t consider him-self a fashion maven. But his trade-mark bow tie and straw fedora are as

distinctive as his name, which is Irish. His grandfather was from Cork, he explains.

Saunders, who lives in Bearden with his wife, Ellen Bebb, is a current City Council member and former Knox County commis-sioner. He grew up in Sequoyah Hills and was a member of the fi rst Webb School class to attend from 7th to 12th grade.

When he fi rst enrolled, the school was housed at Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church. Students were required to wear a coat and tie to chapel each morning. After chapel, the coats came off, he says. Dressing well for class continued through his under-graduate years at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. While not required, students often wore ties to class.

He thinks the practice of wearing a coat and tie in his early years impacted his cur-rent fashion choices.

After college, Saunders attended Army Offi cer Candidate School. He served one year in New Orleans and one year in Viet-nam. The experience required incredible discipline, and he wouldn’t trade it for the world, he says.

He’d hoped to work for the railroad after his Army service, but instead, landed in the banking industry. In those days, bankers wore white shirts, straight ties and suits, and he typically bought three suits a year. He may have owned a bow tie or two, but

Finbarr Saunders has adopted the uniform of a navy blazer, khaki pants and bow tie for

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He found his calling in community ser-vice during his banking career. He became an East Tennessee Children’s Hospital board member and got involved with the Arts Council, now the Arts & Culture Alli-ance.

“I always felt like I got more than I gave,” he says.

When Saunders left banking at the begin-ning of 1985 to manage an accounting fi rm, he didn’t own a pair of jeans. He adopted a new uniform for his new career: khaki pants, navy jacket, and Bass Weejun penny loafers. He decided that he liked bow ties, and even-tually gave away all of his straight ties.

Around the same time, he added another element to his personal style. For years, he grew a beard during an annual beach trip and shaved it off when he came home. In 1985, he kept the beard. He admits that it was a different color back then.

He retired in 2008 to serve on County Commission. His recent community involve-ment includes the Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission, West Knoxville Sertoma Club, Bearden Council and Knox Heritage.

While jeans have a place in his current wardrobe, he prefers that they have a crease. He generally sticks to the uniform of a navy jacket, bow-tie and khakis for City Council meetings or public events. The fedora hat, which his father also wore, is occasionally

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replaced by a straw boater.He enjoys serving on City Council

because it is a non-partisan body, he says. Every hot-button issue, like those regarding Knox County Schools, turns partisan at County Commission. He doesn’t see a reason for partisanship at the local level.

Party politics are having detrimental effects at the state level. As a 23-year ETCH board member, Saunders is disappointed that Insure Tennessee was killed before it reached the fl oor of the General Assembly. He thinks the bill may have suffered from “guilt by association.” Rural hospitals are most at risk without a federal funding stream, he says.

For Saunders, community service and engagement will never go out of style.

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“I have my grandparents’ dining table that they brought from Germany and pieces that are new, old and everything in between,” said Lorraine. “This place is very warm and homey and works for us.

“We love living here. Until you have tried this lifestyle, you can’t appreciate the convenience of having so many amenities within walking distance. Two of my favor-ite things are the coffee shop downstairs and windows up here with amazing views.”

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June 22-26 Alice in Wonderland Ballet and Art Camp for ages 6 to 12, new and experienced dancers. Along with ballet there will be art class daily and an in-studio performance.

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July 20-24 Guest Artist Intensive. Dancers will take ballet, pointe and variation classes from Barbara LeGault, ballet instructor from Houston, Texas, known for her highly technical approach to classical ballet. Joy Davis, Counter Technique instructor will introduce dancers to this fabulous technique. Ms. Davis is one of three certified Counter Technique instructors in the U.S. There will be an in-studio performance on the last day of the workshop.

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Among the many things Anne McKin-ney is known for, the most readily ap-parent is her stylish collection of hats.

The popular estate lawyer, motivational speaker, song parodist and YouTube phe-nomenon – one of her videos has garnered over a million hits – is a big fan of headwear for all occasions.

She’s always liked hats but says that years ago she would “buy them and they’d sit on the shelf.” However, in the early 90s, the tragic accidental death of a young client changed her perspective.

“I cried for days,” she says. “I thought about how fl eeting life is, about how our days are numbered. And I thought, ‘what

can I do to remind myself that this, right now, is the most important moment?’ ”

Out came the neglected hats. Putting one on, she says, made her feel “all nice and dressed up.” And her mood was lifted daily. “There’s a lot to be said for looking at things deliberately in a positive light,” she says, and she carries that message to all who come to hear her speak.

As for the benefi ts of wearing hats: num-ber one, she says, is that “I spend absolutely no time on my hair.

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tected against cataracts and your skin is pro-tected against wrinkles and sun damage.”

But most benefi ts are esoteric. “Men, espe-cially in the South, love to see a lady in a hat,” McKinney says with a twinkle in her eye.

“This is my favorite hat,” she says, bring-ing out a sharp black fedora reminiscent of the one Judy Garland wore when she sang “Get Happy.” And her biggest splurge – a wide-brimmed black stunner – once cre-ated a special moment with her young son.

She and the toddler were eating at a res-taurant. Mom dropped something in her lap and when she bent over to retrieve it, the hat’s brim hid her face. Straightening back up, she noticed her son gazing at her in wonder, and laughing.

She’d just begun a round of “peek-a-boo” without even realizing it.

Mother and son, needless to say, spent the rest of lunch playing the game. “There’s absolutely nothing like a baby’s laughter,” she says.

McKinney does admit to some hat-relat-ed drawbacks, like the time she discovered, going through airport security, that some hats contain metal. But on the whole she wouldn’t trade her toppers for anything.

“I would like to ‘single-hattedly’ change the hat-wearing habits of the world!” she declares. “I have a closet full of wonderful memories.”

You can visit Anne McKinney at http://passitonwell.com.

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wear a hat,” she says. Once at a street fair, she was accosted by a man who’d clear-ly been imbibing more than lemonade. He peered at her face under the brim of a smart-looking hat. “I’ve got it!” he ex-claimed. “Joan Collins!”

And several doctors, including an oph-thalmologist and a dermatologist, have veri-fi ed hat-wearing pluses that McKinney had long suspected. “A brimmed hat keeps your face in the shade, so that your eyes are pro-

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