IN THIS ISSUE New officers for East businesses Excitement filled the room as business owners kicked around ideas for advertising promotions and customer bonus days. It is obvious that businesses in and around Knoxville Cen- ter mall are uniting, and the enthusiasm is contagious! ➤ Read Nancy Whittaker on page 7 A gift to Candoro Employee photos of Candoro Marble Works from its active years have been presented to the Candoro Arts and Heritage Center. The photos were given to Candoro treasurer Michael Patrick last Wednesday by cousins David Green and Carlene Johnson. Green is the son of the late William Loy “Red” Green, who was a marble cutter who worked for Candoro for 30 years. ➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 3 Haslam held hostage Ron Ramsey’s going to put his big boot down on Gov. Bill Haslam. If Haslam’s thinking about bringing his long-await- ed Tennessee Plan for Medic- aid expansion to the General Assembly, Ramsey’s going to mess it up. ➤ See Betty Bean’s story on page 4 Branscom’s two jobs Christi Branscom seems to have settled easily into her job as chief operating officer and deputy to the mayor, replacing Eddie Mannis. She is visible in solving is- sues such as the initial foolish decision to change the camera lights at the entrance to Turkey Creek shopping which devel- oper John Turley highlighted. She corrected the error. ➤ Read Victor Ashe on page 4 VOL. 1 NO. 13 November 11, 2013 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow 7049 Maynardville Pike 37918 (865) 922-4136 NEWS [email protected]Sandra Clark | Betsy Pickle ADVERTISING SALES [email protected]Shannon Carey Jim Brannon | Tony Cranmore Brandi Davis | Patty Fecco Myth or maybe We have been told this will be Cuonzo Martin’s best basketball team at Tennessee. That won’t take much. The pre- vious two lost in the opening round of the NIT, at home, to Mercer and MTSU. Perhaps you have heard that three Volunteers, Jordan McRae, Jarnell Stokes and Jeronne Maymon, are all- Southeastern Conference types. One might even make all-America. Hope so. ➤ Read Marvin West on page 4 Over 20 years experience SALES • SERVICE • MAINTENANCE 5715 Old Tazewell Pike • 687-2520 “Cantrell’s Cares” A+ RATING WITH Call for Fall Call for Fall Maintenance! Maintenance! Proud sponsor of the "Run For Their Lives" 5K race brought to you by freedom 4/24 in partnership with Firewall Ministries, to raise awareness of human trafficking. January 11, 2014 Call Pam at 688-9858 e By Betty Bean Last week, Gloria Johnson put both her jobs on the block by in- viting her fellow teachers to speak out about their grievances with Knox County Schools. As a state representative, she was handing her political opponents a potential opportunity to brand her ineffec- tive, a troublemaker. As a lifelong educator, she was risking the ire of those who sign her paycheck. But her colleagues answered the call. Dozens of teachers at- tended a Monday night planning session. Most had never spoken publicly about their grievances, and many – but not all – were ap- prehensive about speaking out. Some asked a reporter not to use their names. But Johnson helped them screw up their cour- age and hone messages to present at the Wednesday night school board meeting. Some had gath- ered solid data; others presented first-hand accounts of how the system’s emphasis on endless high-stakes testing was impacting their students. Gloria Johnson rallies the troops Mid-term report card: Teachers – A Superintendent – Fail School board – Incomplete dismissed and Johnson would be- come a statewide laughingstock. Tension rose that afternoon. But by the time board chair Lynne Fugate opened Wednes- day’s meeting, almost every seat on the main floor and some 35 in the balcony were occupied, and almost everybody wore red. One by one, they presented their con- cerns, complaints and demands: A Spanish teacher talked about being asked to speak less Spanish during her evaluation because her evaluator didn’t speak the lan- guage. An elementary school teacher said her classroom is distracted so often by outsiders that students have asked why so many adult “stalkers” are in the room. A special education teacher said that forcing reading-disabled stu- dents to take written tests dooms them to failure (and probably vio- lates federal law). Others spoke out about: ■ An unfair evaluation which includes 61 indicators on a rubric. ■ Students being taken out of To page 5 By Betty Bean It’s not the biggest redevelop- ment project in the city’s history – the convention center and World’s Fair Park were bigger and so was the realignment of Neyland Drive – but the South Waterfront proj- ect, which will eventually stretch from the planned River’s Edge Apartments, a 134 luxury unit building on the east side of Sut- tree Landing Park behind South Knoxville Elementary School on Sevier Avenue, to a student apartment complex on a connect- ing greenway that ends at the Ft. Dickerson recreation area to the west, is plenty big enough. Knox County Commission and the Knoxville Community Devel- opment Corporation board have South Waterfront ready to boom Redevelopment director Bob Whetsel and deputy director Dawn Michelle Foster Photo by Betty Bean To page 5 Honoring those who served To page 3 By Betsy Pickle From Facebook to City Hall to the nation’s capital, today will be filled with words of thanks and praise for veterans of the country’s military branches – as it should be. Inevitably, fewer of those feted will be veterans of World War II, members of what has become known as the “Greatest Genera- tion.” Their numbers are dwin- dling, though their legacy contin- ues. Two self-described “unimport- ant” veterans happen to live on ad- joining streets in a quiet neighbor- hood in South Knoxville. George Buchanan was a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps in the latter part of the war. Terry Howell was an electrician in the Navy whose mission really started after the war, when he served on a mine- sweeper in the Philippines. They have much in common, including the fact that they have lived in South Knoxville the bulk of their adult lives but were born and reared in western North Car- olina. They are active, intelligent and humble, still quick to lend a hand to family, friends and their community – though reluctant to talk about themselves. “There were thousands of us going through the thing,” says Bu- chanan. “Noth- ing really to write about.” Buchanan had started his sec- ond year at Mars Hill Junior Col- lege when he vol- unteered for the Army Air Corps in fall 1943. Basic training was in Miami Beach. “They had us in hotels they’d taken over,” says Buchanan. “It was something I’d never heard of before.” While Buchanan thought he was living in the lap of luxury, so did Howell. He went to basic train- ing in Bainbridge, Md., in Novem- ber 1944. “There were about 61 or 62 in my boot camp, and those guys would gripe and fuss about every- thing,” said Howell. He found no cause to complain. “It was a rack- et – after being raised on the farm and getting up at 4 in the morning.” Howell was happy to be able to sleep in till 5 a.m. Buchanan says there were so many in the avia- tion cadet pro- gram, “they didn’t know what to do with us.” He was sent to Susque- hanna University in Pennsylvania to study math and calculus “till they got us all straightened out.” He did his basic training in the Southeast and eventually went to Montgomery, Ala., for B-24 train- ing. “I wanted to fly a P-38, a single- engine fighter, but I got a B-24, a four-engine bomber,” he says. “It turned out to be a good plane.” Buchanan was stationed in Italy with the 460th Bomb Group with the 15th Air Force, 762nd Squadron from Nov. 1, 1944, to the end of the war. “Our crew, we didn’t get a scratch on us. We had some holes in our plane from shrapnel.” After four months of Nav y training as an electrician, Howell was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he quickly was transferred to a “yard minesweeper.” “It was about a 150-foot-long wooden boat designed to sweep mines in the harbors,” says How- ell. “The Japanese and the Ger- mans used a lot of mines.” After 19 months in the service, Howell went into the reserves for a four-year stint. “One day before four years was up, I went back – when Korea came up,” he says. He was sent to Florida to reactivate the electrical equipment on ships that were in mothballs there. One of the first things Howell noticed in the Navy was that of- ficers took meals in a nice din- ing room with tablecloths, while Buchanan Howell All spoke with conviction. The atmosphere was creative and col- legial. They vowed to have each other’s backs, and they decided to wear red to symbolize their resolve. As good as the Monday meet- ing felt, Wednesday night would tell the tale. The 60 teachers at the planning session would be swal- lowed up in the large assembly room at the City County Building, which seats 310 people on the floor and another 136 in the balcony. If the teachers didn’t turn out in numbers, their concerns would be class to be coached for tests while missing instruction time. ■ Being called “human capital” by the administration (which boasts an actual position labeled Director of Human Capital Strategy). ■ Contacting the administra- tion with specific problems and never getting a response. A few demanded that Super- intendent Jim McIntyre be dis- missed, and many applauded those demands. The presence of some 300 teachers put the lie to the claim that “most” teachers have warmed up to the atmosphere of evalua- tion and high-stakes testing. The teachers showed up, spoke out and made their points in a forceful, in- telligent and courageous fashion. Teachers’ grade: A Afterwards, McIntyre gave a 9-minute interview during which he said it was great to hear from all those terrific teachers, although “we try to create opportunities for feedback all the time.”
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IN THIS ISSUE
New offi cers for East businesses
Excitement fi lled the room as business owners kicked around ideas for advertising promotions and customer bonus days.
It is obvious that businesses in and around Knoxville Cen-ter mall are uniting, and the enthusiasm is contagious!
➤ Read Nancy Whittaker on page 7
A gift to Candoro
Employee photos of Candoro Marble Works from its active years have been presented to the Candoro Arts and Heritage Center.
The photos were given to Candoro treasurer Michael Patrick last Wednesday by cousins David Green and Carlene Johnson. Green is the son of the late William Loy “Red” Green, who was a marble cutter who worked for Candoro for 30 years.
➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 3
Haslam held hostage
Ron Ramsey’s going to put his big boot down on Gov. Bill Haslam. If Haslam’s thinking about bringing his long-await-ed Tennessee Plan for Medic-aid expansion to the General Assembly, Ramsey’s going to mess it up.
➤ See Betty Bean’s story on page 4
Branscom’s two jobs
Christi Branscom seems to have settled easily into her job as chief operating offi cer and deputy to the mayor, replacing Eddie Mannis.
She is visible in solving is-sues such as the initial foolish decision to change the camera lights at the entrance to Turkey Creek shopping which devel-oper John Turley highlighted. She corrected the error.
➤ Read Victor Ashe on page 4
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will be Cuonzo Martin’s best basketball team at Tennessee. That won’t take much. The pre-vious two lost in the opening round of the NIT, at home, to Mercer and MTSU.
Perhaps you have heard that three Volunteers, Jordan McRae, Jarnell Stokes and Jeronne Maymon, are all-Southeastern Conference types. One might even make all-America. Hope so.
➤ Read Marvin West on page 4
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By Betty BeanLast week, Gloria Johnson put
both her jobs on the block by in-viting her fellow teachers to speak out about their grievances with Knox County Schools. As a state representative, she was handing her political opponents a potential opportunity to brand her ineffec-tive, a troublemaker. As a lifelong educator, she was risking the ire of those who sign her paycheck.
But her colleagues answered the call. Dozens of teachers at-tended a Monday night planning session. Most had never spoken publicly about their grievances, and many – but not all – were ap-prehensive about speaking out.
Some asked a reporter not to use their names. But Johnson helped them screw up their cour-age and hone messages to present at the Wednesday night school board meeting. Some had gath-ered solid data; others presented fi rst-hand accounts of how the system’s emphasis on endless high-stakes testing was impacting their students.
Gloria Johnson rallies the troops
Mid-term report card: Teachers – A Superintendent – Fail
School board – Incomplete
dismissed and Johnson would be-come a statewide laughingstock. Tension rose that afternoon.
But by the time board chair Lynne Fugate opened Wednes-day’s meeting, almost every seat on the main fl oor and some 35 in the balcony were occupied, and almost everybody wore red. One by one, they presented their con-cerns, complaints and demands:
A Spanish teacher talked about being asked to speak less Spanish during her evaluation because her evaluator didn’t speak the lan-guage.
An elementary school teacher said her classroom is distracted so often by outsiders that students have asked why so many adult “stalkers” are in the room.
A special education teacher said that forcing reading-disabled stu-dents to take written tests dooms them to failure (and probably vio-lates federal law).
Others spoke out about: ■ An unfair evaluation which
includes 61 indicators on a rubric. ■ Students being taken out of To page 5
By Betty BeanIt’s not the biggest redevelop-
ment project in the city’s history – the convention center and World’s Fair Park were bigger and so was the realignment of Neyland Drive – but the South Waterfront proj-ect, which will eventually stretch from the planned River’s Edge Apartments, a 134 luxury unit building on the east side of Sut-tree Landing Park behind South Knoxville Elementary School on Sevier Avenue, to a student apartment complex on a connect-ing greenway that ends at the Ft. Dickerson recreation area to the west, is plenty big enough.
Knox County Commission and the Knoxville Community Devel-opment Corporation board have
South Waterfront ready to boom
Redevelopment director Bob Whetsel and deputy director Dawn Michelle Foster Photo by Betty BeanTo page 5
Honoring those who served
To page 3
By Betsy PickleFrom Facebook to City Hall to
the nation’s capital, today will be fi lled with words of thanks and praise for veterans of the country’s military branches – as it should be.
Inevitably, fewer of those feted will be veterans of World War II, members of what has become known as the “Greatest Genera-tion.” Their numbers are dwin-dling, though their legacy contin-ues.
Two self-described “unimport-ant” veterans happen to live on ad-joining streets in a quiet neighbor-hood in South Knoxville. George Buchanan was a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps in the latter part of the war. Terry Howell was an electrician in the Navy whose mission really started after the war, when he served on a mine-sweeper in the Philippines.
They have much in common, including the fact that they have lived in South Knoxville the bulk of their adult lives but were born and reared in western North Car-
olina. They are active, intelligent and humble, still quick to lend a hand to family, friends and their community – though reluctant to talk about themselves.
“There were thousands of us going through the thing,” says Bu-chanan. “Noth-ing really to write about.”
Buchanan had started his sec-ond year at Mars Hill Junior Col-lege when he vol-unteered for the
Army Air Corps in fall 1943. Basic training was in Miami Beach.
“They had us in hotels they’d taken over,” says Buchanan. “It was something I’d never heard of before.”
While Buchanan thought he was living in the lap of luxury, so did Howell. He went to basic train-ing in Bainbridge, Md., in Novem-ber 1944.
“There were about 61 or 62 in my boot camp, and those guys
would gripe and fuss about every-thing,” said Howell. He found no cause to complain. “It was a rack-
et – after being raised on the farm and getting up at 4 in the morning.”
Howell was happy to be able to sleep in till 5 a.m.
Buchanan says there were so many in the avia-tion cadet pro-
gram, “they didn’t know what to do with us.” He was sent to Susque-hanna University in Pennsylvania to study math and calculus “till they got us all straightened out.” He did his basic training in the Southeast and eventually went to Montgomery, Ala., for B-24 train-ing.
“I wanted to fl y a P-38, a single-engine fi ghter, but I got a B-24, a four-engine bomber,” he says. “It turned out to be a good plane.”
Buchanan was stationed in Italy with the 460th Bomb Group with the 15th Air Force, 762nd
Squadron from Nov. 1, 1944, to the end of the war.
“Our crew, we didn’t get a scratch on us. We had some holes in our plane from shrapnel.”
After four months of Navy training as an electrician, Howell was sent to the Pacifi c Theater, where he quickly was transferred to a “yard minesweeper.”
“It was about a 150-foot-long wooden boat designed to sweep mines in the harbors,” says How-ell. “The Japanese and the Ger-mans used a lot of mines.”
After 19 months in the service, Howell went into the reserves for a four-year stint.
“One day before four years was up, I went back – when Korea came up,” he says. He was sent to Florida to reactivate the electrical equipment on ships that were in mothballs there.
One of the fi rst things Howell noticed in the Navy was that of-fi cers took meals in a nice din-ing room with tablecloths, while
Buchanan
Howell
All spoke with conviction. The atmosphere was creative and col-legial. They vowed to have each other’s backs, and they decided to wear red to symbolize their resolve.
As good as the Monday meet-ing felt, Wednesday night would tell the tale. The 60 teachers at the planning session would be swal-lowed up in the large assembly room at the City County Building, which seats 310 people on the fl oor and another 136 in the balcony. If the teachers didn’t turn out in numbers, their concerns would be
class to be coached for tests while missing instruction time.
■ Being called “human capital”by the administration (which boasts an actual position labeled Director of Human Capital Strategy).
■ Contacting the administra-tion with specifi c problems and never getting a response.
A few demanded that Super-intendent Jim McIntyre be dis-missed, and many applauded those demands.
The presence of some 300 teachers put the lie to the claim that “most” teachers have warmed up to the atmosphere of evalua-tion and high-stakes testing. The teachers showed up, spoke out and made their points in a forceful, in-telligent and courageous fashion.
Teachers’ grade: AAfterwards, McIntyre gave a
9-minute interview during which he said it was great to hear from all those terrifi c teachers, although “we try to create opportunities for feedback all the time.”
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Leaving the hospital is just the first step in recovering from a heart attack, heart surgery or angioplasty. Cardiac patients often need to strengthen weakened heart muscles and learn heart-healthy practices. Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center heart patients are referred to the hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Program. The three-month program offers exercise sessions and health classes to establish lifestyle changes that help reduce the patient’s risk of further heart disease.
“Cardiac Rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary treatment plan which involves medication, nursing, exercise physiology, nutrition and psychology. We know it’s difficult to make lifestyle changes, so we try to provide people support so they can change,” explains cardiac rehab nurse case manager Brenda Leuthold.
Patients exercise three times each week while hooked to a heart monitor. They also attend different classes on nutrition, stress management and medications.
“It’s long enough to help form healthy habits,” says Leuthold.
After completing the rehab program, patients are invited back to the center to continue exercising. The center has exercise bikes, step machines, treadmills and free weights.
“It’s a wonderful support group for anybody that’s had heart disease or heart procedures,” says Leuthold. “We have a lot of great outcomes.”
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Working out three times a week, Thomas regained his strength. Then he decided to keep going with exercise.
Thomas joined Fort Sanders Cardiac Rehab on a monthly ba-sis, like a health club. Now at 71, he visits several days each week to use the treadmill, weights and other equipment.
“I’ve kept up a routine of walk-ing and exercising, and it’s made a tremendous difference in the qual-ity of my life. If you exercise you can live life. Or, you can just sit around and wait to croak, I guess!” Thomas said with a laugh.
Like many cardiac patients, Thomas is a veteran. He served in the Army in 1959 to 1960. His heart problems were not related to his service, he said.
However, many veterans do have heart and lung problems stemming from military service.
“Many men in World War II were exposed to dangerous lev-els of asbestos. And during the Vietnam War, it was Agent Or-ange that may have affected their lungs,” said Rick Smith, a car-diovascular technologist at Fort Sanders. Smith is himself a former Army combat medic and National Guardsman.
Smith said he sees military service related heart and lung diseases regularly. Asbestos was rampant in old Navy ships and shipyards. Agent Orange and oth-er chemicals were used in South-east Asia. And throughout the military, cigarette smoking was an encouraged habit (it is now discouraged).
“Cigarettes used to come in the meal ration packs,” said Smith.
“The old adage was, ‘If you’ve got ’em, light ’em.’ ”
For example, Harold Pruitt of Knoxville, 79 and a Navy veteran, exercises regularly at Fort Sand-ers.
“I was exposed to asbestos, but I also smoked for 52 years,” he said. “I had a little trace of CPOD (chronic pulmonary obstructive disorder), and restless leg syn-drome.”
Exercising at Fort Sanders has made a big difference in his health, Pruitt said. “It’s helped me quite a bit. I can walk better, breathe bet-ter and the doctor says my lungs are clear and free,” said Pruitt.
Veterans and other patients of-ten say they enjoy having nurses, physical therapists and dieticians nearby while they exercise, in case of emergency.
“We exercise the patients, take
their blood pressure and watch them on heart monitors while ex-ercising, taking them through dif-ferent stations like the treadmill,the bicycles and weights for their upper body,” said Smith.
Chuck Doherty of Knoxville, 86,said he’s glad Fort Sanders staff members are nearby while he ex-ercises.
“I think they’re doing a greatjob. I fell once on the treadmill, and they were there in a nanosec-ond. I’ve got to learn to keep awakeon the treadmill,” he joked.
Doherty said he was likely ex-posed to asbestos in the Navyyears ago; however, his main heartissue is an irregular heartbeat. He began attending Fort Sanders Car-diac Rehab about four years ago.
“I use the arm machines, the treadmills, the steps, weights, bi-cycles, everything. My wife tells me it’s keeping me alive,” Doherty said.
“Whether you’re a veteran ornot, you’ll get the most excellent care you could ever get at Fort Sanders,” said Smith. “Exercise helps stave off old age issues, ar-thritis and things like that.
“Your mobility is better, yourlung issues get better. You’re being watched by all these people, andwe send reports to physicians.
“We like to say we have smart,happy hearts and happy patients. Exercising at Fort Sanders helps our patients recognize what’s go-ing on with their bodies. It also gives them a way to improve their health,” said Smith.
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Teachers from through-out the area got a lift last Tuesday night at Reach Them To Teach Them at the Tennessee Theatre.
From a Petros supper and gift bags to a program featuring sports broadcast-er Roy Firestone and radio host Hallerin Hilton Hill, the evening was all about celebrating and reinvigo-rating educators, and it ap-peared to be a huge success.
“It was great,” Jackie Ja-cobsen, ELL teacher at Belle Morris Elementary School, said of Firestone’s presenta-tion. “I thought it was very entertaining. I really appre-ciated it and the inspiration that it gives us all.”
Hill drew on humorous and poignant remembranc-es from his childhood to il-lustrate the impact teachers can have on students. Fire-stone, a seven-time Emmy
Award winner, used video clips of sports triumphs and bloopers, along with some impressive singing and mimicry chops, to drive home the “Field of Dreams”-inspired message, “If you build it, they will become.”
Amy Crawford, a seventh grade English teacher at West Valley Middle School and founder of Reach Them To Teach Them, was ex-hausted but elated by the end of the evening.
“Our very fi rst event about eight years ago, we had about 500 people,” said Crawford. “Tonight, we had in the neighborhood of 1,600.”
The program drew teach-ers from Blount, Cocke, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox and Roane counties.
“We had 1,100 teachers from Knox County prereg-istered,” Crawford said. “Every single Knox County school was represented here tonight, so we’re really excit-ed. We think that what we’re doing is going to have an im-pact on the lives of the kids that we teach every day.”
■ Gift to CandoroEmployee photos of Can-
doro Marble Works from its active years have been pre-sented to the Candoro Arts and Heritage Center.
The photos were given to Candoro treasurer Michael Patrick last Wednesday by cousins David Green and Carlene Johnson. Green is the son of the late William Loy “Red” Green, who was a marble cutter who worked for Candoro for 30 years.
Johnson made copies of candid shots Green has found in his parents’ Foun-tain City home since his mother died in September and arranged them in a photo album. They include photos of employees and equipment in the factory, quarry operations, carvings by sculptor Albert Milani and Candoro marble used in major buildings in Wash-ington, D.C.
Green has lived primar-ily in Louisville, Ky., since the late 1970s, and Johnson lives in Hawkins County outside of Kingsport, but they both grew up in Knox-ville. Several of their other relatives, including their grandfather and two of his brothers, also worked at Candoro.
Fulton High School’s Claudia Bland (at right), teaching assistant in a satellite classroom for emotionally disturbed children, catches up with Fulton’s technology coordinator, Matt Graves, as Graves volunteers at Reach Them To Teach Them.
Teachers get fi red up
An aerial photograph taken in the late 1920s or early 1930s shows the extensive operations of Candoro Marble Works.
Candoro Arts and Heritage Center board member Patrick Mi-chael chats with cousins Carlene Johnson and David Green.
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Amy Crawford, founder of Reach Them To Teach Them and seventh grade English teach-er at West Valley Middle, relaxes after the event with keynote speaker Roy Firestone. Pho-tos by Betsy Pickle
Jackie Jacobsen, ELL teacher at Belle Morris Elementary, left, and Amelie Delzer, a speech-language pathologist at Belle Morris, Whittle Springs Middle and Fulton High, pal around with Inky Johnson, former UT football player turned motiva-tional speaker, who drove from Atlanta to attend Reach Them To Teach Them.
Dawn Perry, teacher assistant at Fair Garden Preschool, and Zackea Harris, pre-K teacher at Fair Garden, get ready to head into the auditorium for the program.
Jim Friedrich, business teacher at Hardin Val-ley Academy, and Nancy Friedrich, fourth grade teacher at Dogwood Elementary, pause at the food line at Reach Them To Teach Them.
Volunteers Lynn White, assistant principal at Gibbs Elementary, and Connie Simpson, sec-ond grade teacher at Sequoyah Elementary, hand out teacher gifts.
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everyone else ate in a mess hall. When he checked around to see what the of-fi cers had in common, he learned that it was educa-tion.
He went to UT and ma-jored in industrial manage-ment. The G.I. Bill helped, but he worked summers – hard work in steel mills, fabrication plants and auto-assembly factories. After his discharge from the Navy, he went to work for Robert-shaw Controls in 1952 and retired after 37 years.
Buchanan also went to school on the G.I. Bill.
“That was a great thing,” he says. “It got a lot of us an education.”
He graduated in civil engineering from Georgia
Tech and was hired by TVA. He worked in the hydro-en-gineering branch for almost 40 years before retiring in 1988.
Both men married and reared families. They have had their fair share of suc-cess and heartbreak. They are grateful for the training they got in the service and the education they received
afterward. The price they paid was fair, they believe.
“You happened to be there when it was needed, and you wanted to do it,” says Buchanan.
“It helped me grow up,” says Howell.
Others weren’t so lucky.“A lot of people gave a lot
for us to be living like we do today,” says Howell.
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Christi Branscom handles two jobs
government
Tennessee basketball? Myth or maybe?We have been told this
will be Cuonzo Martin’s best basketball team at Tennes-see. That won’t take much. The previous two lost in the opening round of the NIT, at home, to Mercer and MTSU.
Perhaps you have heard that three Volunteers, Jor-dan McRae, Jarnell Stokes and Jeronne Maymon, are all-Southeastern Confer-ence types. One might even make all-America. Hope so.
Earlier, there was fear of hype overload and excessive expectations. Not so much now. Florida and Kentucky and maybe Alabama are pro-jected as superior in the con-ference. Tennessee opened at No. 26 in the Associated Press preseason top-25 poll. One computer forecast says 33 in the country.
The great Dick Vitale, breathless with excitement,
Marvin West
says Tennessee is No. 23 un-til further notice. His analy-sis was powerful: “Stokes will be a key up front. A healthy Maymon will help.”
I had no idea.Here are the unspoken
keys to this being a good team:
Antonio Barton, fi fth-year senior imported from Memphis as a surplus Ti-ger, must move the ball at a faster pace, get out on the break, feed the big bullies inside.
Stokes really needs a short jump shot. Has he de-veloped one? We’ll see.
Here’s one of the myth-or-maybe parts: Can Ten-nessee guard guards? Per-haps Barton or freshman Darius Thompson or multi-talented Josh Richardson or somebody deeper on the bench can make criti-cal stops. The previous two teams boosted several op-posing guards toward fame and fortune.
Trae Golden, since de-parted with only rumored explanation, was at the fore-front of that problem. He lacked quick, nimble feet. But he could hit clutch free throws. Replacing poise at
the foul line is another un-spoken key.
In theory, there will be more free-throwing. Of-fi cials have been told to re-move some of the toughness from defense. If it really happens, that is bad news. Defensive toughness, not yet developed, was suppos-edly one of Cuonzo’s hall-marks.
Here is the other un-spoken key to signifi cant improvement, another myth-or-maybe segment: Has Tennessee developed an offensive strategy for at-tacking zones? If it remains the same, bombs away, can highly regarded newcomer Robert Hubbs or McRae or Richardson hit the required percentage of threes?
Martin thinks Tennessee will be a pretty good team.
“I think the most im-portant thing is not to get caught up in what other people are saying…we know what we need to do to be successful.”
Coach wasn’t talking about me. I hadn’t said any-thing at the time.
There are encouraging signs of success – more tal-ent, more experience, more
depth, more matchup fl ex-ibility.
Leadership is strength-ened with Maymon’s return. He tried during his sit-out season but there is a signifi -cant difference in talking a good game and playing one. Maymon can play.
Stokes has lost a few pounds and appears a bit quicker. He got that mes-sage last spring when NBA evaluators shocked him with several reasons he should remain in college.
At heart, Jarnell is a gladiator who goes hard to the boards. He generally maintained effort last sea-son even when he didn’t get the ball. Stokes is a winner if the refs will let him breathe.
McRae is one of the bet-ter developmental stories in the country. As Vitale likes to say, he has come a long way, baby. He may actually be an NBA scorer.
Hubbs, top new talent, is also a shooter. Alas and alas, Tennessee must play with just one ball at a time. That probably means more games will be won or lost on defense.Marvin West is the only Tennessean in the U.S. Basketball Writers’ hall of fame. He invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected].
GOV NOTES ■ East Knox Republican Club
will meet Thursday, Nov. 14, at O’Charleys, 3050 S. Mall Road. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 6:45.
■ Knox County Democratic Women’s Club will meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Shoney’s on Western Avenue. New members are welcome. Info: 742-8234.
East Knox tire cleanupKnox County work crews have removed some 30,000 tires from property on Alex Bales Road and will be restoring the contours of the natural slopes and putting down grass mats on the excavated areas this week. The cleanup was funded by a $160,000 state grant that also covers four other illegal dump sites. Photo by Tom Salter
Christi Branscom seems to have settled easily into her job as chief operating offi cer and deputy to the mayor, replacing Eddie Mannis.
She is visible in solving issues such as the initial foolish decision to change the camera lights at the entrance to Turkey Creek shopping which developer John Turley highlighted. She corrected the error.
What has gone un-mentioned is that her old job as senior director has gone unfi lled. The Rogero Administration has not made an offi cial announce-ment, but it is evident it is not going to be fi lled which will save city taxpayers over $160,000 a year since the two jobs of Mannis and Branscom have effectively been combined without any public acknowledgement.
Frankly, both posi-tions were not needed and Branscom doing both jobs with only a $500 annual pay hike proves it. More effi ciency and cost cutting in city government is to be admired and applauded.
Meanwhile the Rogero administration is being tight-lipped about life after Angela Starke, communica-tions director, who departs in December for Florida where her husband has a new job. Discussion ranges from simply fi lling the position with someone new, elevating Jesse Mayshark who makes $40,000 a year less than Starke or re-arranging the whole op-eration by merging it into a new department. Mayshark has been the go-to person for city information. The next person may not make the same salary which Starke has had. Stay tuned.
Complicating matters is that Starke’s departure leaves the Rogero Ad-ministration without an African-American leading an operating department. Tank Strickland, who has worked for four mayors, continues with community relations but it is one-per-son offi ce. Strickland is highly regarded.
■ Susan Richardson Williams serves on the new TVA committee to look at its energy activities along with two other Knoxville residents who are Wayne
Davis, dean of engineering at UT, and environmental activist Steve Smith. Wil-liams has operated a pub-lic relations fi rm for many years in Knoxville.
She is a longtime Repub-lican activist having served in the Alexander and Sun-dquist cabinets.
She was actually the recommendation of Gov. Bill Haslam to serve on this committee which held its fi rst meeting in October in Scottsboro, Ala. She is a former UT trustee and TVA board member where she says she supported open committee meetings of the board (which has never materialized). TVA pays expenses to attend the meetings.
Also serving on the com-mittee is Anne Davis, wife of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and manager of the Southern Environmental Law Center in Tennessee, as well as Tennessee Con-servation Commissioner Robert Martineau.
The committee is not expected to address the public relations headaches TVA has had with its now abandoned dress code for public hearings and exces-sive tree cutting policies in residential neighborhoods which exceeds what KUB does in Knox County.
TVA CEO Bill Johnson chairs the committee, although originally it was proposed that the com-mittee pick its own chair. Johnson preferred to run it himself and asserted that view. One can ask how much independence will it really have?
■ Tom Brokaw, former anchor for NBC news and well known journalist and author, will speak at the Cox Auditorium at the Alumni Memorial Building on the UT campus this Wednes-day, Nov. 13, at 1:30 p.m. sponsored by the Howard Baker Center. The public is invited. It is part of the Baker Distinguished Lec-ture series. Brokaw is 73. It is co-sponsored by the News Sentinel, WBIR and WUOT. Reservations can be made by contacting the Baker Center.
Ron Ramsey’s going to put his big boot down on Gov. Bill Haslam. If Haslam’s thinking about bringing his long-awaited Tennessee Plan for Medic-aid expansion to the Gen-eral Assembly, Ramsey’s go-ing to mess it up.
The lieutenant governor is putting stuff like this on his website: “If Obamacare is implemented, it will be near impossible to roll it back. We must do what we can while we can.”
Last week Ramsey told Capitol Hill reporters that the governor is wasting his time even thinking about presenting a plan to get fed-eral money to buy health insurance for 330,000 un-insured Tennesseans. When they went running up to Haslam’s offi ce for com-ment, his people told them that Ramsey’s ruminations won’t affect the governor’s deliberations, which are into their second year.
Haslam held hostageRamsey in the 2010 GOP primary with 47 percent of the vote. Ramsey’s 22 percent couldn’t even beat Zach Wamp’s 29 percent. Should he have realized that Ramsey would be holding him hostage before he’d fi n-ished his fi rst term?
Probably, given the makeup of the upper house of the General Assembly, which is dominated by what John McCain calls the “wacko-bird” faction.
Think maybe Haslam wishes he were back in Knoxville where he could count on a collegial, non-partisan City Council to pretty much endorse his every wish – Knoxville, the running of which he could delegate to trusted depu-ties Larry Martin and Bill Lyons while he spent two years shaking hands from Memphis to Mountain City trying to be governor – Knoxville, where reporters were friendly, their bosses
deferential and there was no problem a phone call from his daddy couldn’t go a long way toward solving?
Heck yes. He had a sweet ride over here.
Maybe he’s been thinking about that since last March, when, after months of de-liberation, internal debate and just plain dithering, he announced what everybody already pretty much knew – that he was turning down $1.4 billion the federal gov-ernment stood ready to fork over to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
No healthcare for you, 300,000 uninsured Tennes-seans. And if you’re waiting on that Tennessee Plan, which is supposed to lever-age those federal dollars to buy private health insur-ance for poor people, don’t hold your breath. It’s a will o’ the wisp. Bill Haslam is not the most powerful guy in Nashville.
OK, then.Meanwhile, staunch
Haslam supporters like the Tennessee Medical Associa-tion and the hospital lobby-ists, who evidently haven’t found tort reform to be the solution to their fi nancial problems, are ramping up the pressure to get him to sign on to the Medicaid deal so they can get reimbursed for treating the poor and the sick. Vanderbilt Medical Center is getting ready to lay off 1,000 workers; rural hospitals are threatening to close, leaving Haslam to take the fall when commu-nities end up without access to medical care.
This is devil and the deep blue sea territory, and sure-ly not what Haslam antici-pated when he rolled over
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By Betsy PickleThe Appalachian Moun-
tain Bike Club frequently gathers on Saturdays for “work days,” cleaning up various trails and parks. But the club took a break on Nov. 2 for its annual Fall Festival.
Held at the South Knox-ville home of club president Brian Hann, the festival was a combination of fun and competition, food and drink, fellowship and par-tying. There were babes in arms, senior citizens and quite a few dogs amid the crowd of about 400.
The event started at 1 p.m. with trail rides of vary-
ing lengths. Short-course races held late in the after-noon helped to whet the ap-petites of both riders and observers for the barbecue dinner. Every bike shop in town was represented, and there was a silent auction to raise funds for the club.
The festival also included performances by several bands, but the most enter-taining stage act was an impromptu gathering of small children. They stood around, unimpressed, while David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” played through the speak-ers, but as soon as more cur-rent fare came on, they went into action.
Paulie Richkus, Matthew Kellogg and Brian Hann take a break from their festival duties.
Phil Rader and Linda Gray tag along with Otto the wonder dog.
Bike clubfall fest
Riders get ready to start a short-course race at the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club Fall Festival. Photos by Betsy Pickle
Ben and Kelley Darnell make it a family day with sons, from left, Graham, Miles and Leif.
Nick and Joy Pavlis stop by.
At left, Dr. Kevin Zirkle ap-proaches the fi nish line.
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approved a $22 million, 30-year tax increment fi -nancing deal requested by developer Blanchard & Calhoun, which has an op-tion to purchase the Bap-tist Hospital property from Tennova Healthcare. This will give developers a tax break for twice as long as the usual TIF, but city offi -cials say the results will be well worth the wait because it will tie components of the waterfront project together.
“If you take most of the investment that’s gone on downtown in the past fi ve years, this is as big as we’ve done,” said Knoxville’s Di-rector of Redevelopment Bob Whetsel.
It’s going to be Deputy Redevelopment Director Dawn Michelle Foster’s job to shepherd the South Wa-terfront project.
Whetsel is an old rede-velopment hand, having been with the city since 1993, when he was hired by former Mayor Victor Ashe. Foster, who has an under-graduate degree in civil engineering from Western Kentucky and a master’s in planning from the Univer-sity of Tennessee, has been with the city for a year and a half and has lived in Knox-ville since 1988.
Foster said the fi rst thing Knoxvillians can expect to see is work on the former Baptist Hospital medical offi ce building at the cor-ner of Blount Avenue and the south end of the Gay St. Bridge. This is the newest, most modern piece of the former hospital complex, and work could begin there by early next year, if all goes well.
The medical offi ce build-
South waterfront From page A-1
ing will be rehabbed, turn-ing the lower levels into a hotel, with luxury apart-ments on the upper level above that,’ she said. “Refac-ing of the Baptist Eye Insti-tute buildings (on the south side of Blount Avenue) will begin, and there are three buildings altogether to be remodeled. The ones on the other side of the street will be offi ce/retail, and the main part of the hospital will be demolished.”
The old hotel on the cor-ner of Blount and Chapman is to be demolished, as well.
And although the city’s not exactly counting on it, there’s even a futuris-tic conceptual plan for a true pedestrian bridge that would connect the South-side to the upper concourse of Thompson-Bowling Area, if somebody can come up with the $20 million price tag and fi gure out how to meet state’s environm ental requirements.
He vowed to continue to help the teachers adjust to all the “changes” and dis-avowed creating or toler-ating an atmosphere that squelches dissent.
He did not express any frustration with the new standards and did not ad-dress the substance of any of the complaints.
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t ’s grade: F
School board members by rule and by custom do not respond to presentations at public forum. Indya Kincan-non asked that the teachers’ concerns be addressed at the board’s next meeting and posted an open invitation for them to contact her on vari-ous social media.
No one addressed the nu-merous requests to fi re Mc-Intyre.
School board’s grade: Incomplete
REUNIONS ■ Rule High Class of 1973
will hold its 40-year reunion Saturday, Nov. 16, at Bearden Banquet Hall. All graduates are invited. Info: Mike Doyle, 687-2268, or Juanita McFall Bishop, 804-4816.
Top sell-ers in the area include S o u t h -Doyle High s t u d e n t Connor Kirk (102 books), Spring Hill Elementary s t u d e n t
Ashlyn Beal (102 books) and Sunnyview Elementary stu-dent Ava Hooks (100 books).
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Volleyball seniors at Carter High Senior team members of the Carter High volleyball team were honored last week after theirmatch against Austin-East. Pictured are Suzie Parker, Kaila Howard and manager Lane Stuart.Photo by Ruth White
■ Wednesday, Nov. 13, 10:30 a.m. – “Chanukah Story time” with Laurie Fisher.
■ Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m. – “Internet and Email Basics” introduces the features of web browser software and a web-based email service. Requires “Intro-ducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. To register: 525-5431.
Captains for the night were Akeen Cooperwood, Daryl Rollins-Davis, Xavier Hawkins and PennySmith.
Fulton High senior cheerleaders Kaleigh Jordan, Kelsey Pitchford, Victoria Harrison and Desiree Luster celebrate a big win over Carter and an undefeated season. Photo by Simmone Smith
Fulton Falcons soar past Carter to 10-0 season
Fulton quarterback Penny Smith and head coach Rob Black discuss game plays on the sidelines during a time out.
Knox County students sold 154,063 coupon books this year with a profi t of $1,360,376.29. Results were announced Nov. 6 at a lun-cheon for top producers at the Sarah Simpson Profes-sional Development Center.
This is the 25th anni-versary of the program and marks the fi nal coupon book sale for Mary Kerr who is retiring.
RuthWhite
Building book by book
to-date sales totals, recog-nized top-selling schools and students, identifi ed corporate sponsors and thanked coordinators for a successful 2013 campaign.
Representatives from the coupon book’s presenting sponsor, U.S. Cellular, and major sponsors, Rusty Wal-lace Kia, Stanley Steemer, First Tennessee, Junk Bee Gone and Rusty Wallace Honda, were present.
The 2013 campaign goal was 160,000 books sold, which would net $1.4 mil-lion for classroom needs across the county.
The Original Knox Coun-ty Schools Coupon Book provides funds to meet school needs identifi ed by parents, teachers and school administrators.
Students sold 153,642 coupon books last year, raising almost $1.4 million for the schools.
Since 1989, more than 3.2 million coupon books have been sold to raise more than $27.5 million for stu-dents in the Knox County Schools.
Schools with greater economic needs share $.70
Connor Kirk
Ashlyn Beal
Ava Hooks
Fulton cheerleader McKenna Black holds a portion of the run-through in anticipation of the arrival of her Falcon team. The Falcons hosted Carter Hornets in the fi nal regular season game. Photos by Ruth White
Berean Christian ■ Casual Coff ee events will
be hosted by the school 8:30 a.m. each second Tuesday at its campus on Prosser Road. The Casual Coff ees are question and answer sessions designed to give prospec-tive families a feel for the spirit and focus of BCS, while allowing an opportunity to ask questions in an open and candid environment. All are welcome. Info: Tracy Denham, 919-9777 or [email protected].
from the sale of each $10 book, and ebook subscrip-tions for all Knox County Schools’ libraries are fund-ed by $.13 of the proceeds.
The cost of printing is $.63 per book, and $.54 of the book’s cost go to cover administrative and student incentive cost.
Books are available for sale at selected retail stores or orline at knoxschools.org.
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What makes a fi ne craft made by a member of the Foothills Craft Guild so special? A lot of people don’t realize that every member of the Foothills Craft Guild is actually jur-ied into the Guild by meet-ing very strict standards for quality workmanship. You can see many of these items fi rst-hand at the Guild’s upcoming Fine Craft Show designated by the Southeast Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event.
For the past 13 years, Kristine Taylor’s passion has been designing one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces of jewelry with polymer clay. Rich in color with contemporary designs, her inspiration comes from nature, archi-tecture and cultural arts.
“Polymer clay is a ma-terial that allows me to have more control over the shape, texture, and color of my jewelry designs. Other components of my work include stones, fi bers, glass, pearls, and metals – sterling silver, 14k gold-fi lled, 14k gold, and occa-sionally brass or copper,” says Kristine. “I apply var-ious surface designs after hand-shaping each piece of polymer clay, and then the piece is cured, sanded and polished to create a
Fine craft showoff ers the unique
News from Foothills Craft Guild
Photo and jewelry by K Taylor
smooth fi nish.”Come to a Fine Craft
Show this weekend to start your holiday shop-ping early with over 140 booths of fabulous fi ne crafts representing Ten-nessee … woodwork, pot-tery, jewelry, glass, fi ber arts, metalwork, sculp-ture, basketry and more!
Enjoy daily craft dem-onstrations and visit the Make It & Take It Booth (Saturday and Sunday) where all ages can create small crafts.
Stop by the Authors’ Corner for personal auto-graphs of newly released books from local favor-ites Dr. Bill Bass (Sunday only), Sam Venable, Bill Landry and Jim John-ston.
Fine Craft Show Presented by the Foothills Craft GuildFriday & Saturday, Nov. 15-16, 10-6
Sunday, Nov. 17, 11-5Jacob Building/Chilhowee Park
Adults/$8, Seniors 65+/$7 • Children 13 & Under Free www.foothillscraftguild.org
Jerri Reed was introduced to volunteering through a
College Suc-cess course at Pellis-sippi State Community C o l l e g e ’ s M a g n o -lia Avenue C a m p u s – and she h a s n ’ t
stopped volunteering since.“I have a big heart and I
love to help people,” Reed said.
“I don’t have a lot of money or tons of free time. But it’s more valuable than money to do service work and to help people. Money is nice, but I get more out of things where I can help people one on one.”
Reed volunteers with Caris Health Care’s hospice program, the American Red Cross, the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley, the Autism Society of East Ten-nessee and Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennes-see. She also rescues and fosters pit bulls, among oth-er volunteer efforts.
As part of her studies at Pellissippi State, Reed has volunteered time and served in unpaid intern-ships with the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce and Knox-ville Police Department. She hopes to someday work as an investigator with the
medical examiner’s offi ce or with a crime scene investi-gation unit.
As if all of that weren’t enough work, Reed is pur-suing three degrees at Pellissippi State: an Asso-ciate of Applied Science in Health Sciences, an A.A.S. in Nursing and an A.A.S. in Administrative Professional Technology with a Health Care Offi ce Administration concentration.
“I’m planning to gradu-ate in spring 2014 with my degree in Health Sciences,” she said, “using transfer credits from the Tennessee Technology Center (now the Tennessee College of Ap-plied Technology). And in spring 2016, I hope to earn my degrees in Nursing and Health Care Offi ce Admin-istration (in the APT pro-gram).
“Nursing is a very open fi eld. You can do so much with a nursing degree. I’ve always wanted to be a nurse; I’ve always wanted to help people. Part of why I want to work crime scenes is because I want to know why something happened, who did something to some-one, and I want to try to get other important questions answered.”
For more information about Pellissippi State’s Magnolia Avenue Campus, visit www.pstcc.edu/mag-nolia or call (865) 329-3100.
Nursing student is all-star volunteer
News from Pellissippi State - Magnolia
Jerri Reed
By Sherry WittAfter a very strong sum-
mer, the lo-cal real es-tate market returned to a more nor-mal pace in October. H o w e v e r , p r o p e r t y sales still easily sur-
passed those of a year ago with 850 property transfers in Knox County. The market outperformed last October’s number of 774 sales, and was only 20 off the pace set in September.
The total value of land sold in October was just over $165 million. While that was about $20 million short of the September to-tal, it was ahead of October 2012 by about $25 million. Historically, real estate ac-tivity slows down somewhat during the last quarter of the year as cooler weather and shorter days make con-struction more challenging.
Mortgage lending mar-
kets continued to trend slower in October as around $256 million was loaned against real estate, $13 million less than Sep-tember. Last October more than $336 million was loaned against real proper-ty. Mortgage lending tends to fl uctuate, and it appears that the latest refi nancing surge may have reached a saturation point as national interest rates have inched upward.
The largest real estate transfer of the month was a deed for property at 5032 Lyons View Pike which sold for $4,675,000. The largest mortgage transaction was a Trust Deed by Sachchidan-and Hotel Papermill fi nanc-ing property on Papermill Road in the amount of $9.4 million.
On this Veterans Day, I would like to extend a spe-cial thanks to all the men and women who have served our country in the military. You are truly our nation’s fi nest, and your sacrifi ce is not forgotten.
Real estate market holds ground
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News from the Register of Deeds
Excitement fi lled the room as business owners kicked around ideas for ad-vertising promotions and customer bonus days. It is obvious that businesses in and around Knoxville Cen-ter mall are uniting, and the enthusiasm is contagious!
The newly formed East Towne Area Business and Professional Association met last week to elect of-fi cers and adopt a slogan. ETABPA’s vision is to “Fos-ter a positive image and enhance customer traffi c through partnerships, ad-vertising, media and gov-ernment interaction; mak-ing the East Towne Area your business destination.”
Sharon Davis, a Real-tor with Hammontree Real Estate, conducted the fi rst meeting, and city council member Nick Della Volpe encouraged everyone to bring businesses together to have “one voice.”
Kaelyn Farmer, the man-ager of Buckle in Knoxville Center, was elected presi-dent. Other offi cers include Janie Wilson, vice president; Tammy White, treasurer; and Mike Davis secretary.
Davis promises the De-cember meeting will be “super exciting” and encour-ages representatives from businesses along the I-640 corridor to attend. The meeting will be held at the Harvest Park Community Center, 8a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4.
■ Got mushrooms?As a youth, Bob Hess
loved to hike. While in boy
Newly elected offi cers of the East Towne Area Business and Professional Association are Mike Davis, secretary; Janie Wilson, vice president; Kaelyn Farmer, president and Tammy White, trea-surer. See story on Page A7. Photo by Nancy Whittaker
Nancy Whittaker
Enthusiasm is contagious; group gets motto
scouts, he started learning about mushrooms and was fascinated with them.
Originally from Mem-phis, Bob decided to make Knoxville his home after he earned a journalism de-gree from UT. His interest in mushrooms started as a hobby, but Bob soon started
Bob Hess, owner of Everything Mushrooms, shows a current variety, oyster mushrooms. Photo by Nancy Whittaker
Vickie Lewis, Donna Lunsford and Mary Petree at the Magnolia Avenue location of Petree’s Flowers. Photo by Nancy Whittaker
ies of fresh mushrooms are available.
Everything Mushrooms hosts workshops on the growing process and holds cooking demonstrations. Bob is proud that his com-pany does not subcontract to anyone else – they are hands-on from start to fi n-ish.
Bob says his customers are interested in growing varieties of mushrooms that local grocery stores don’t carry. His focus is on edu-cating people on what they need and how to get started in this process.
The showroom is open to the public from noon to 6, Monday through Friday and noon to 4 on Saturday. Info: w w w.e v e r y t h i n g mu s h -rooms.com or 329-7566.
ers picking up orders and designers creating beautiful arrangements were all hap-pening at Petree’s Flowers on Magnolia when I walked in. Donna Lunsford, owner, continued getting out a last minute order while we chat-ted.
In 1938, Donna’s dad
started Petree’s just up the street from the current lo-cation, 3805 Magnolia Ave. She and her brother, who is now retired, took over in the ’80s and opened a second location on Broadway.
Donna’s mom, Mary, is 89 years young and still ac-tive in the business. When asked what makes Petree’s different, Donna said it is simple, “We care.” Some of their employees have been there for over 30 years.
Petree’s has seven de-signers and four delivery trucks on the road serving all of Knox County and the surrounding areas. There is no charge to meet with a bridal consultant. Fresh fl owers are shipped directly to Petree’s twice per week and special orders are al-ways welcome.
What about unusual re-quests? Donna says, “every day,” and said that as long as it is feasible, they will make it happen.
Their busiest time of year is Valentine’s Day, with over 600 deliveries in one day – and I just thought they were busy while I was there!
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growing, selling and trading mushroom culture from his apartment.
His company, Everything Mushrooms, was soon cre-ated. After creating a web-site, Bob opened his fi rst showroom near Broadway and Central. In that location a little over two years, he moved to 1004 Sevier Ave. and has been there for more than four years. He and his
eight employees ship orders all over the world and inter-est continues to grow. Bob explains that more people are into gardening and growing their own food, in particular, specialty foods.
Although 90 percent of their business is on-line, Everything Mushrooms’ showroom includes books, videos and supplies. Dried mushrooms and 4-6 variet-
HEALTH NOTES ■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meets 5-6:30 p.m. each
fi rst and third Tuesday in the UT Hospice offi ce at 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info or reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.
8 • NOVEMBER 11, 2013 • Shopper news
By Anne Hart
November is Diabetes Awareness Month, which brings a reminder of the devastating role the disease can play in damaging or even destroying eyesight, and of the impor-tance of good ophthalmologic care. Diabe-tes is the leading cause of blindness for people under 50.
Diabetes affects the eyes by causing dete-rioration of blood vessels in the retina. The retina is the nerve tissue in the eye which functions similar to the fi lm in a camera. The breakdown of retinal blood vessels may result in fl uid leaking into the center of the retina (macular edema) or abnormal blood vessels that grow on the surface of the ret-ina (neovascularization), which can bleed and scar. This can lead to permanent loss of vision.
The physicians at Southeastern Retina Associates (SERA) have been caring for pa-tients with diabetic retinopathy for over 30 years. The physicians at SERA are the only retina specialists in the Knoxville region who are board-certifi ed in ophthalmology by the American Board of Ophthalmology. As retina specialists, the physicians at SERA specialize in treating diseases of the retina. That specialization and experience has led SERA to become the most trusted retina practice in the region. Almost all of the patients seen at SERA have been referred by other eye care providers who trust the physicians of SERA to provide the highest
level of care to their patients with diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, and other retinal conditions. “We are proud of the care we have provided to the East Tennessee community over the last 30 years and appreciate the trust our patients and their physicians have placed in us,” says Dr. John Hoskins, the founder of SERA.
Diabetic retinopathy can cause perma-nent vision loss if not identifi ed early. Dr. James Miller notes “It is important to re-member that diabetic retinopathy may not cause any symptoms in its early stages, so it is critical that people with diabetes mellitus undergo at least an annual eye exam, even if there are no apparent vision symptoms.” All patients with diabetes are urged to have an annual eye exam. “Prevention is the key to maintaining your vision because all too often the nerve damage that results from diabetic retinopathy cannot be reversed,” says Dr. Miller. Similarly, good blood sugar control is a critical aspect of preventing and managing diabetic retinopathy.
Patients with diabetic retinopathy are often treated with medication, lasers, and surgery if necessary. All of the physicians at SERA completed four years of medical school, a one-year intern-ship in medicine and surgery, a three-year ophthalmology residency, and a two-year fellowship in medical and surgical retina care, so they are well-trained to provide a full spectrum of care to diabetic patients.
They are the only specialists in the area who provide both medical and surgical care to their patients. “We are the only retina specialists in the area who are trained to manage all aspects of diabetic retinopathy,” notes Dr. Tod McMillan.
SERA is a nationally-recognized retina practice with a very active clinical trial and research program. SERA has been a leader in multiple nationally known clinical research studies for diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular occlusion, and other diseases of the retina. “By collaborating with the National Eye Institute and leading clinical research studies, our practice is able to provide cut-ting-edge treatment to patients in East Ten-nessee that they cannot obtain anywhere else,” notes Dr. Joseph Googe.
With offi ces in the Knoxville, Chattanoo-ga and Tri-cities areas, the physicians with SERA have the confi dence of patients and their referring physicians from Wytheville, VA. to Dalton, GA and from Crossville, TN to North Carolina.
SERA’s retina specialists utilize the most advanced therapies and surgical approach-es, combined with unfailing attention to consistency and detail, to provide the best treatment available, including surgery when necessary.
For additional information, please go to www.southeasternretina.com or call 865-588-0811.
At Southeastern Retina Associates the focus is all on the eyes
