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By Betty BeanKnox County school board

members were faced with a stark choice last week: Approve a mem-orandum of understanding be-tween Mayor Tim Burchett and Superintendent James McIntyre that leaves teachers with half the pay raise they’d been led to ex-pect, or be stuck with Burchett’s original budget offer, which would leave the school system with a $6.5 million shortfall and mean no raise at all.

Analysis

The day after: What did teachers gain?

It really wasn’t a nail biter.The political reality is there

was little chance that the MOU would fail, given that board mem-ber Doug Harris, a member of the pro-McIntyre faction, had initi-ated the negotiating process and was locked into a yes vote, as were the four anti-McIntyre faction members – two of whom, Terry Hill of District 6 and Mike Mc-Millan of District 8, are being re-warded with constituent-pleasing new middle schools.

When District 5 board member Karen Carson signaled her inten-tion to vote yes by proposing an amendment making sure that Burchett didn’t hog the credit for the pay raise, any suspense sur-rounding the vote was removed.

Under the terms of the compro-

mise, McIntyre agreed to trim $1 million from his original budget request and apply it to teacher raises. Burchett agreed to make a onetime payment to Knox Coun-ty Schools of $3 million to fund APEX (strategic compensation) bonuses promised to teachers who earned them. This leaves open the question of how such bonuses will be funded in the future.

The agreement to sell the An-drew Johnson Building was ac-cepted with no comment, and little reference was made to a paragraph in the agreement that bars ad-ditional new school construction until 2021, except for a couple of board members who are hoping for new schools in their districts

By Betsy PickleWhen Sandra Kessler started

Saturday story time at Montgom-ery Village, she didn’t realize she was onto something big.

“At fi rst I’d get two or three kids,” says Kessler, a Montgomery Village resident who started the reading program in March. “Last Saturday, it was raining at 1 (the start of story time), and no one showed up.

“By 3 the rain had quit. All the kids came in and sat down for me to do story hour, so I did. All they did was wait for the rain to stop.”

She ended up with 15 kids that day, and she had 11 this past Satur-

day – the Fourth of July. Around town, youngsters were celebrating the holiday at backyard cookouts and swimming pools. In the con-verted apartment that serves as the Montgomery Village library, children were having a blast hang-ing out with their friends and lis-tening to Kessler make stories come to life.

The kids, ranging from a rising sixth-grader to a 1-year-old, chose the books, and Kessler plowed through them all.

The selections were varied: from “I Wanna Iguana” to a Strawberry Shortcake take on “Snow White” to the classic “Puss

in Boots.” The youngest listen-ers grew a tad restless, but the bulk of the group – mostly 6- and 7-year-olds and including Kes-sler’s granddaughter – gave Kes-sler their attention.

After the story hour was over, the children got snacks and sodas. Kessler encouraged them to go into the playroom to draw, but most-ly they sat around and ate their snacks and teased each other.

Story time is only one part of Kessler’s grand plan for the library. A Montgomery Village resident since 2013, she has quickly be-come involved in the community, including serving as an offi cer in

Storytime at Montgomery Village draws youngsters Mariah Womble, Shamiyah Santos, Caden Patrick; (middle row) Angelina Irankunda, Mya Smith, Kymari Montgomery; (back row) Shamarr Johnson, Titus Womble and Amarion Thomas.

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Storytimethe residents’ association. The li-brary is in the same building as the

association’s quar-ters, and she took on the challenge of reviving it.

She’s still work-ing to get adult and reference books moved upstairs so that the ground fl oor is dedicated to younger users.

She eventually hopes to have a computer lab and link the com-puters to the schools Montgomery Village kids attend – primarily Mooreland Heights and Dogwood Elementary and South-Doyle Mid-dle – so that students can connect and check on assignments. She wants them to be able to come to the library to study.

Kessler is grateful for dona-tions of children’s books, coloring and craft supplies, adult self-help books, fi ction and reference books.

“The only thing we don’t need is encyclopedias,” she says, mo-tioning to shelves fi lled with well-intentioned but out-of-date tomes.

Contact Kessler at 865-386-8090.

By Sandra ClarkUnited Grocery Outlet has

opened a new, larger store at 4225 Chapman Highway, in a building that began life as a Red Foods.

Store manager Matt Storm says business has tripled in the fi rst three weeks. Yes, he’s a happy guy. He brought the staff with him from the smaller store and added 20 more. His biggest problem? Getting a day off.

United Grocery Outlet oper-ates off the grid with bargains throughout the store.

Gary Buchanan, director of purchasing, explains:

“We don’t try to saturate the market (in cities where stores are located). Our objective is to pro-

Grocery business booms with bigger storevide extreme value to our custom-ers.”

Buchanan, who was recently named grocer of the year by the Tennessee Grocers Association, says about 80 percent of a store’s merchandise is manufacturer’s closeouts.

“We don’t ask (vendors) ‘what do you want to sell?’ We ask them ‘what do you need to sell?’”

And the other 20 percent? That’s fresh meat, fresh pro-duce and dairy products – items stocked for customer convenience.

In a recent interview in Ath-ens, Tenn., where the company is based, Buchanan said UGO’s old store on Chapman Hwy. was No. 4.

“Bargain Barn had six stores,

at Montgomery Village

noting that the agreement is “non-binding.”

Board members Tracie Sanger, Lynne Fugate and Gloria Death-ridge made strong cases for turn-ing down the deal, and Sanger was eloquent when she spoke of “have-not” schools – like Inskip Elemen-tary School – whose actual needs “will be superseded by projected needs. We need to address current needs before we address projected needs,” she said.

Several dozen red-shirted teachers who had rallied in support of nonrenewed colleagues before the board meeting stuck around to watch the vote. Most had little to

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Matt Storm in the produce section of

United Grocery Outlet on Chapman

Highway. Photo by Sara Barrett

two warehouse employees and one truck” when he joined in 1990, he said. Now the company has stores in fi ve states with more than 700 associates.

The chief executive offi cer is Michael Tullock, who founded Bargain Barn in 1974 with his parents, Doug and Carol, and a $1,000 investment to stock dis-counted canned vegetables in the family’s antique store in Etowah. Soon the groceries chased out the antiques.

The name and corporate char-ter for Bargain Barn have re-mained, even as the company has rebranded itself as United

Sandra Kessler

Student on boardBetty Bean talks with

Bearden High School senior Sydney Gabrielson after her fi rst school board meeting as the student representative.

She had much to say, includ-ing an emotional defense of her school’s dismissed softball coach.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page 5

Flying highShopper-News interns

ventured south and down-town last week with a visit to Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio. Shannon Carey said it’s the most fun the interns have had so far.

Their reports are inside.

➤ Read about interns on page 8

Jury Fest ahead for craft guild

The Foothills Craft Guild is accepting new member appli-cations from fi ne craft artisans for its second Jury Fest to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, with take-in days Monday and Tues-day, Aug. 10-11.

Info/application: Bob Klas-sen, [email protected], or www.foothillscraftguild.org under the “How to Join” section.

Red Gate RodeoThe annual Red Gate Fes-

tival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville.

Carnival starts at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under.

Info: www.redgaterodeo.com or 992-3303.

BUZZ

Ed and Bob coming to Carter

Knox County at-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will host a community meeting 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at Cardin’s Drive-In, 8529 Asheville Highway.

All residents are invited to attend to discuss county issues. Other commissioners may at-tend as well.

Green is hereWendy Smith snagged an

interview with Gerald Green, new director of the Metro-politan Planning Commission, during his fi rst week in town.

➤ Read Wendy Smith on page 4

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health & lifestyles

Patrick Bolt,

Orthopedic

Spine Surgeon

Scrums, rucks and mauls. Butch Robert-son knows ’em all.

But this is no unsavory cast of characters – they are terms used in rugby, a sport Rob-ertson knows plenty about. After all, he not only played it at North Carolina State, but also racked up more than 750 victories for the University of Tennessee during his 34 years as the Vols’ head coach.

He offi cially left the game in May 2011, but the game never left him, thanks to an injury received during a match about 40 years ago. And thanks to Dr. Patrick Bolt, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Med-ical Center, Robertson is now back helping his successor, Marty Bradley, keep the Vols winning.

“I was going into a maul (the term used when a player carrying the ball is held by one or more opponents and one or more of his teammates also latch onto the ball-carrier to move toward the goal) and so was my team-mate, who unfortunately either didn’t see me or decided to keep on coming and hit me in the back,” Robertson said, recalling a Satur-day afternoon match when he was playing with the Atlanta Rugby Club.

“It was a case of where the role of a coach is to ensure that players understand the rules and the techniques of the game, but also how to play it safely. The Atlanta team was basi-cally a self-coached team. As such, we just didn’t play it as safely as we could. Since we didn’t have that direction from the sideline, we kind of learned it the hard way and some-times did things we shouldn’t have done.”

That blow to the back resulted in an injury requiring a partial discectomy. The injury was compounded years later by degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis.

“Mr. Robertson had pretty classic spinal stenosis where he had a great deal of diffi culty walking any distance without sitting down,” said Dr. Bolt. “He felt like he had to hold onto a cart at the store which leaned him forward, taking pressure off his back. It was a pretty classic case, and we tried everything we could to avoid surgery.”

For six years Dr. Bolt managed Robert-son’s pain with steroid injections and physi-cal therapy, knowing the day would come when major spinal surgery was needed.

That day came in May 2014 when Robert-son and his family went on vacation to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. “I could hardly walk,” he said. “I just had to push my-self through the pain. I clearly needed sur-gery.”

And Dr. Bolt was just the man to do it. Robertson had been referred to Dr. Bolt

by Michael Casey, MD, Dr. Bolt’s colleague at Fort Sanders Regional, and a rugby fan, friend and team doctor. Dr. Casey once worked with the perennial world-champion All Blacks in New Zealand on a sports medi-cine fellowship.

“The thing I enjoyed about working with them was they had the same set of priorities: they recognized the competitive nature of the

sport and the desire to keep our kids healthy. These guys had established credibility in my mind by the way they approached their ath-letic injury issues,” Robertson said. “Seeing how they responded to on-the-fi eld situations and how they helped kids, it made me realize, ‘You’re not going to get any better than this. These guys know what they’re doing.’ So why, after seeing them in action, would I go to any-one else to get this work done on me?”

The only question in Robertson’s mind was WHEN to do the surgery. With a pro-jected 12-week recovery period and a slew of engagements ahead, he delayed the surgery until Feb. 10 of this year. On that day, he en-tered Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, where Dr. Bolt removed bone with laminecto-

mies at L3-4-5 and fused the L3-4 vertebrateswhich were unstable due to spondylolisthesis(also known as a “slipped disc” or “slidingvertebrate”). He utilized computer navigationto surgically place the pedicle screws to holddiscs in place.

“Because of his previous surgery and theamount of arthritis, his L3 vertebrate had slidin front of the L4 which aggravates the painof spinal stenosis and caused back pain withstanding and walking which was relieved bysitting,” said Dr. Bolt. “A lot of people havespinal stenosis, a lot of people have spondylo-listhesis but only about 1 out of 10 people withthose conditions will need surgery; most ofthe rest can be treated with physical therapyand anti-infl ammatories and injections. Butwhen we do need to do surgery, the most im-portant part of the surgery is getting the pres-sure off the nerves and stabilizing the loosevertebrate.”

Robertson was in the hospital fi ve days, an experience he says was made easier becauseof the staff which he said was “absolutely top-drawer, nice and concerned from beginningto end.”

“Everybody I met on the various nursingfl oors I was on – top to bottom – was cour-teous and concerned,” he said. “My wife,Rebekah, stayed with me three or four of thenights while I was in the hospital and theywere very helpful and courteous to her. Theyreally made a difference in that period thatwas really challenging.”

And once home, Rebekah made the dif-ference. “She was my nurse, my chauffeur,my chef, my ear, my counselor. She just sup-ported me immensely throughout this wholething,” he said of his wife of 38 years.

Today, Robertson says, “I feel great and Iam doing things I hadn’t been able to do ina year.”

One of those things is rugby, helping coachMarty Bradley with the Vols team. Of course,you won’t be seeing him in a “scrum” anytime soon. “Did I tell you how old I would beon my next birthday?” he says with a laugh. “Ididn’t say this wasn’t a fun sport, but I did sayit is a fun sport for young men.”

For more information about spinal proce-dures at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Cen-ter, call 865-673-FORT (3678).

The blow to Butch Robertson’s back all those years ago while playing with the Atlanta Rugby Club may have stuck in his memory, but whether it was directly responsible for his pain some four decades later is diffi cult to say.

“It was probably an indirect result,” said Dr. Patrick Bolt, an orthopedic spine surgeon at

Fort Sanders Regional Medi-cal Center. “Mr. Robertson had a lot of arthritis through-out his back, so there’s re-ally no telling which was at-tributable to an injury some time ago and which was not. I don’t know that distant in-juries always cause future problems, but I would say, in his case, having a prior surgery may have caused it. Sometimes, surgery in the

past can also need surgery in the future.”It’s important to remember, said Dr. Bolt,

degenerative disc disease is “not actually a dis-

ease.”“It’s wear and tear on the spine,” he said.

“The more wear and tear you place on your spine, the worse your degenerative disc disease will be. The spine has only so much capacity to heal and injuries will accumulate over time. I like to use the analogy of a set of tires on a car: You don’t get to change your tire … so the faster your drive and the more you do in the car, the faster the tires wear out.”

Spinal injuries are eventually accompanied by stenosis, a narrowing of the nerve canal due to boney overgrowth caused by wear and tear and arthritis. “Just like you notice arthritic joints in your hands get knobby and swollen, the knuckle joints in your back and neck get knobby and swollen,” said Dr. Bolt.

For temporary relief, Dr. Bolt says heat and ice remain good solutions. “Heat tends to increase blood fl ow to the area and relax muscles. So, if you are trying to induce healing and relax spasming muscles, heat can be help-ful,” he said. “Ice reduces infl ammation. So if

you feel like your back is infl amed or had a re-cent injury, ice can slow down blood fl ow and reduce infl ammation. Unfortunately, neither heat nor ice changes the temperature of the discs – it’s mainly affecting the muscles.”

Maintaining good spine health, however, is one way to help reduce your risk of injury and degenerative disc disease. Dr. Bolt says the keys to good spine health include:

STOP SMOKING – “Smokers have high-er rates of spine pain and degenerative disc disease,” said Dr. Bolt. “It’s not entirely un-derstood why but it’s thought to be a nicotine effect. Nicotine constricts the small blood ves-sels, and the discs rely on small blood vessels to retain their nutrition. So if you’ve got nicotine in your system, pretty much 24/7, your verte-bral discs are starved of nutrients.”

KEEP YOUR WEIGHT DOWN – Being heavy is associated with spine pain and degen-erative disc disease.

KEEP YOUR CORE STRONG – Sit-ups and walking help strengthen your back and

abdominal muscles, thereby lessening the bur-den on your spine. Find a good exercise pro-gram to help align your pelvis and lower back.

KEEP CORRECT POSTURE – Sit up straight; stand straight. Slouching aggravates back pain. So, if you’ve had poor posture for years, you’ll need to work at it by “practicing” good posture.

AVOID PROLONGED SITTING – “Don’t sit longer than 30 or 40 minutes with-out getting up to take a break,” said Dr. Bolt. “Again, I believe it comes down to interverte-bral disc nutrition. When you have a sustained sitting posture, the intervertebral discs are under pressure and movement is where it ob-tains its nutrition. So, if you’re not moving, it’s starving.”

“A lot of it has to do with genetics, and you can’t help which genes have been passed on to you,” said Dr. Bolt. “The other factors are con-trollable; so we try to focus on the things we can control. There’s no turning back the clock once the damage is done.”

Mauled no moreVols’ retired rugby coach back in the game

Butch Robertson, retired rugby coach at the University of Tennessee, is grateful to Dr. Patrick Bolt

and Fort Sanders Regional for spine surgery that has allowed him to continue helping with the

team and sport he loves so much.

Best spine care? Prevention

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The 2015 Meadow Lark Music Festival welcomed all musical comers with an engaging mix of performers young and seasoned.

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Meadow Lark charms again

Not surprisingly, rain – a Meadow Lark tradition – also was part of the lineup, but fans ignored it, and the unwelcome clouds skulked away as the afternoon por-tion of the festival at Ijams Nature Center rolled into evening.

Early arrivers got to en-joy Subtle Clutch, the John Myers Band, the Knoxville Banjo Orchestra, Guy Mar-shall and Mountain Soul along with Mayor Madeline Rogero’s banjo jokes.

Kid phenom Emi Sun-shine and her band, The Rain, started the evening off right with a mix of origi-nals and covers.

You might have thought from the burgeoning crowd that former Knoxvillian Scott Miller & the Com-monwealth Ladies Auxil-iary were the main draw of the festival – unless you stuck around for beloved lo-cal veterans the Lonesome

Coyotes and St. Louis-based headliner Pokey LaFarge. The latter two acts rivaled Miller for biggest draw, but if it was a competition, ev-eryone won.

Miller waxed nostalgic with vintage, Knox-centric tunes and thrilled fans with newer ones, while the Lonesome Coyotes’ familiar songs enticed fans to dance. LaFarge lured listeners to their feet with his eclectic, roots-to-ragtime numbers.

It was a feel-good day that should carry music lov-ers through another 364.

Program note: If you missed Meadow Lark, you can catch the John My-ers Band this Friday at the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five. The Mo-

town veteran and his band perform 6-8:30 p.m.

■ Saving energy at Colonial Village Energy effi ciency was the

topic of the night at the Co-lonial Village Neighborhood Association’s June meeting.

Erin Gill, director of the city’s Offi ce of Sustainabil-ity, spoke to the group about the Georgetown University Energy Prize. Knoxville is competing with 50 commu-nities across the country for a $5 million prize.

While winning the prize would be great for the city, residents who make the ef-fort to reduce their energy costs also will fi nd them-selves winners.

Scott Miller, center, enjoys fi ddler Rayna Gellert’s jam as he and bassist Bryn Davies keep pace.

Emi Sunshine and The Rain help drive away the clouds with rootsy, infectious tunes.

WDVX-FM founder Tony Lawson seems tickled by a sculpture

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tion. Lawson recently left WDVX to work with the Birthplace of

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Bristol and guide its day-to-day operations.

Friends Judy Roy, Gloria Johnson and Mayor Madeline Rogero

get ready to enjoy the Lonesome Coyotes.

Gill shared informa-tion about TVA and KUB programs that can help homeowners – and renters – make changes that will save them big bucks. Visit www.2escore.com for valu-able tips.

Louise Gorenfl o of Cli-mate Knoxville and Knox-ville Scores, also spoke about the prize and the ben-

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■ Camp Wesley Woods sum-mer camp, 329 Wesley Woods

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Grocery Outlet. The com-pany offers “no gimmicks, no cards, no coupons.” It doesn’t even promise a full range of inventory.

The grocery items sold are name-brand close-outs, purchased and sold for ex-treme value. Robby Green is the district manager.

Buchanan, who has been in the grocery business since age 15, says technol-ogy is changing the game for every business. “The Baby Boomers still buy gro-ceries and cook. The Millen-nials may ask, ‘what do I do with a chuck roast?’ They know what to do with a bag of chips.

Grocery business From page 1

“We buy seasonal items or food with a pink ribbon after the promotion ends. …

“Our savings are not bells and whistles. We sell it right because we buy it right.”

Buchanan stops to take a call from “my watermelon guy.”

He laughs a lot and pass-es out water with his picture on the label – a gift for being the state’s grocer of the year.

“I just love this busi-ness,” he says. “We’re not for everybody, but we give consumers real service and extreme value.

“And it feels really good when someone says, ‘You saved our family.’”

What did teachers gain? From page 1

say about the MOU.When asked how teach-

ers felt about getting only half of the 4 percent raise that McIntyre – and Gov. Bill Haslam – semi-prom-ised them this year, one teacher activist said teach-ers are accustomed to get-ting shafted.

“Once again we’re feel-

ing like an afterthought, but we’re thinking, ‘Something’s better than nothing.’ You can say raises are a priority, and we’ve got to take care of them, but meanwhile teach-ers are being chased out; veteran teachers are being replaced by young teach-ers. It’s cheaper that way. And McIntyre keeps creat-

ing administrative positions for people like Clifford Da-vis and Russ Oaks. And the $65 million for new schools? Teachers don’t think much about that.”

The teacher tapped Bur-chett as the big winner in the compromise.

“He’s got McIntyre on a short leash.”

GreenBuchanan

“So we’re packaging pre-seasoned meats in a foil tray for quick-and-easy food preparation. Some want it, some don’t. We have two customer bases. …

“But with some merchan-dise we’re pretty trendy. We stock organic and natural fresh foods. …


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New MPC director wants to talkGerald Green doesn’t

have many positive memo-ries of downtown Knoxville from his graduate school days in the early 1980s. He interned in a leased offi ce with no windows, and he re-calls a restaurant on Market Square but can’t remember the name. Beyond Miller’s Department Store and Big Don the Costumier, nothing else stands out.

Wendy Smith

Gerald Green takes a break to chat about the challenges of

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Now, he thinks the city is great. Downtown, the river, the university, neigh-borhoods, greenways and people provide a great foun-dation, and Knoxville is building on it, he says.

Green is the new ex-ecutive director of the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, and he’s get-ting his feet wet by reading and by meeting with people. His defi nition of planning is 70 percent education, 20 percent counseling and 10 percent planning.

He was a planner in Ashe-ville, N.C., as it was grow-ing up. During the month he moved there in 1989, the fourth downtown res-

taurant opened. The city’s successful growth led to a lack of affordable housing − something he hopes Knox-ville can avoid. The city also lost its friendliness, he says, which contributed to his decision to accept a job as planning director for Jack-son County, N.C.

The county seat of Jack-son County is Sylva − pop-ulation 2,603. But a rapid population increase was un-derway when Green arrived in 2010. The change allowed him to do different things, like environmental plan-ning, protecting natural re-sources and working with small communities.

Working with small com-munities is the same as working with larger ones, just more personal, he says. He left that post to return to Knoxville.

His experiences have led him to value good commu-nication. In Asheville, he had good relationships with neighborhoods and devel-opers alike because he com-municated with them.

“Nobody likes to be told no without an explanation.”

He hopes to get off on the right foot here by meeting with neighborhood groups. The city needs to have a bal-ance of single-family and multi-family housing, and he plans to talk to residents about where high-density housing would work best.

Building high-density housing in the right place enhances commercial de-velopment and discourages developers from putting it in the wrong place, he says.

The biggest challenges he will face in Knoxville, aside from communica-tion, are getting buy-in for the city’s vision of growth from the center and identi-fying where county growth should happen. He’s heard that some want to preserve areas in the southern part of the county, and some want to preserve farmland in the east, and he aims to fi nd out if those are shared goals.

When asked for his opin-ion on historic preserva-

tion, he chooses his words carefully. There’s real value in historic properties, but the economics have to work. There has to be a way to re-use them, he says.

While he’s glad to return to Knoxville, he doesn’t an-ticipate being able to relax anytime soon. He plans to spend his evenings meet-ing with the community. His wife, Ashlea Green, still teaches part-time at West-ern Carolina University and plans to commute between Knoxville and Cullowhee, N.C.

Those who wonder which part of town the Greens will call home will have to wait. They are still house shopping.

Recently, comments were attributed to Gov. Bill Haslam regarding the proposed gas tax hike that seemed out of character for him. He was quoted from Shelbyville telling gas tax

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opponents to “bring it on” if they wanted to fi ght a gas tax increase.

As many readers of this column know, Bill Haslam is one of the nicest persons you will ever meet. He is never derogatory about opposing points of view and prefers resolving issues to confrontations. So when he urges opponents to go to war with him, that is not the Bill Haslam we know.

Without commenting on the merit of an increase in the gas tax at this time, all should be able to agree it is a complicated issue with many ramifi cations.

First, Gov. Haslam has not yet made a specifi c pro-posal although it appears he will support an increase. We just do not know if it will be 10 cents or 20 cents or somewhere in between.

We do not know if it will be for bridge replacements, new roads, repairing old roads, urban or rural, or all of the above. In short, there is nothing to support or oppose until the governor puts it on the table.

Second, he will need to lay the groundwork for legislative buy-in. He will need to meet personally with dozens of lawmakers, not in group settings.

He will need to fi nd out what their concerns are and how to meet them. Other-wise, he faces the prospect of another loss along the lines of Insure Tennessee. Many legislators cam-paigned on lower taxes. It may be impossible for them to vote for a tax increase during the 2016 session with that pledge in their platform.

Third, he cannot keep on saying the budget is in great shape as he has for four years and not mention road funding as an issue. Everything cannot be fi ne

one day and then in crisis the next day when it comes to roads.

His new chief of staff, Jim Henry, has a strong legislative background. Henry, 70, is highly re-spected.

The governor will need to listen to his experience and build on it. He has his work cut out for him.

Henry needs to get the Lady Vols fi asco off the front page as the governor, who chairs the University of Tennessee Board of Trust-ees, is getting tarnished by it. One would think the UT leadership, starting with President Joe DiPietro, would realize they have a serious problem that has not been resolved.

Terry Faulkner: The talk at the recent Marshall Stair for Council kick-off reception was about Terry Faulkner, longtime Bearden neighborhood activist, running in 2017 to replace Duane Grieve on City Council. Grieve is term-limited. The current council members, with the exception of Mark Campen, appear strong contenders for re-election, so attention is already turning to who will replace the fi ve district council members who are term-limited in 2017.

Faulkner is a go-to per-son in Bearden and among neighborhood groups citywide. She has spear-headed the new Everly Park idea. She was instrumental in getting Charlie Thomas appointed to City Council to replace then-Vice Mayor Bob Becker, who had moved to Richmond, Va. It took several ballots for Thomas to prevail.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UT and the mother of two adult daugh-ters. Council will lose its only woman in 2017 when Brenda Palmer retires unless a woman wins this year.

■ Three members will likely leave MPC in a few months as they are city appointments who have served two terms. Mayor Rogero has a rigid policy of not naming people to a third term. The three are former Vice Mayor Jack Sharp, Bart Carey and Michael Kane. However, it is possible one of them could receive a county ap-pointment as Arthur Clancy did and continue on MPC. Carey is vice chair.

■ Dean Rice, Mayor Burchett’s chief of staff, has been ill at home for the past three weeks. He is recover-ing well from a virus picked up while in Jordan on a private trip. It caused acute pericarditis. The good news is he expects to be back to work soon.

Widening Washington PikeAt left, Jeff Mize, project manager and an engineer with CDM

Smith, shows residents the route of the widened Washington

Pike. Above, residents James McMillan and Kevin Murphy talk

following the public meeting. Photos by S. Clark

Sandra Clark

‘Why are we building this road?’Road projects often gen-

erate their own momentum, especially when an engi-neering fi rm gets involved.

Take Washington Pike, east of Target and New Har-vest Park. You’ll soon reach Murphy Road and a traf-fi c light at Tazewell Pike. It could be a quick route to, well, Gibbs.

If you want to go from New Harvest Park to Gibbs.

Otherwise, why in the world would the city pay $15 million and change to im-

prove a 1.84-mile stretch?“Why are we (city resi-

dents) building this road?” asked Ronnie Collins, presi-dent of the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Associa-tion. “And who are we build-ing it for?”

He was echoed by Justin Sterling, East Towne Busi-ness Alliance president.

“The business alliance is not opposed to this, but we’d rather see limited resources used to install a second-chance exit ramp from I-640 and clear out some of the brush (that limits vis-ibility).”

“We’re building it be-cause it’s a city street and it needs improvement,” said city Engineering Director Jim Hagerman, who seemed

annoyed by the question.Project manager Jeff

Mize said after last week’spublic hearing that the en-gineering and right-of-wayacquisition are funded.

The city has diverted some$10 million from this projectto Cumberland Avenue im-provements. Mize said fund-ing is federal, routed throughTDOT and the city.

Why build it? When?And who benefi ts? We needanswers before additionalmoney is invested.

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THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG. 9New Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit,

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge. Info: 482-1441.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memo-

ries” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go to the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique,

10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $35. Preregistration required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Minion Movie Marathon, 1-5 p.m., Lawson Mc-Ghee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Storyteller Laurie Fisher, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Summer Fun Picnic and Line Dance Party, noon-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/RSVP: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

THURSDAY, JULY 9Knoxville Zoomobile, 11 a.m., Bearden Branch

Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: 588-8813.Needle Tatting Class-Medallion, 2:30-5:30

p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

“Pinterest/Instagram/Twitter for Seniors” class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Info/registration: 218-3375; www.townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.

THURSDAYS, JULY 9-30Zumba Kids class, 9-10 a.m., Farragut Town

Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Gina Guider. Cost: $3 per class. No registration required. Info: Lauren Cox, [email protected] or 966-7057.

FRIDAY, JULY 10Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Haz-

ari, 10:30 a.m., South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Info: 573-1772.

Deadline to register for the hands-on spinning workshop to be held Saturday, July 18, at Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Cost: $25. Learn how to wash wool, card wool and spin wool using a drop spindle. Info/registration: 573-5508 or email [email protected].

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 10-26“Bambi: A Life in the Woods,” Knoxville

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

SATURDAY, JULY 11Using County Records in Genealogical Re-

search, 10 a.m.-noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructor: Doris Martinsen, MLS, CA, Head, Knox County Archives. No registration required. Info: 215-8801.

Tea & Treasures Second Saturday Market-place, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 4104 W. Martin Mill Pike. Featur-ing: arts and crafts, antiques, plants, books, food and music. Old Time Mountain Pickers, 1-3 p.m.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Robin Milhollan, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastro-giovanni, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 865-406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

SUNDAY, JULY 12Little Greenbrier School Old Harp shape note

singing, 2-4 p.m., Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Free; all invited and tune books provided. Info: Robin Goddard, 982-6148 or [email protected].

Sing Out Knoxville meeting, a folk-singing circle open to everyone, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Song book provided. Info: [email protected] or 546-5643.

MONDAY, JULY 13All Over the Page: “After Visiting Friends” by Mi-

chael Hainey, 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 2 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Field day for grades K-2, 9-10 a.m., Anchor Park, 11730 Turkey Creek Road. Cost: $3. Registration dead-line: Friday, July 10. Features sack, three-legged and relay races; softball throw; kickball; wiffl e ball. Healthy snack and water provided. To register: 218-3375, www.townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the Town Hall. Info: Lauren Cox, [email protected] or 966-7057.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 13-17Etiquette classes, 4-5:15 p.m., Imagination Forest,

7613 Blueberry Road. Hosted by the Cardinal School of Etiquette for ages 12-17. Cost: $125. Info/registration: 312-2371 or [email protected].

TUESDAY, JULY 14Computer Workshops: Word Basics, 2 p.m.,

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Diabetes Support Group, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Healthy U: Smoking Cessation, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 West-ern Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 10:30 a.m., Murphy Branch Library, 2247 Western Ave., LT Ross Building. Info: 521-7812.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

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The price hike passed, but Gabrielson is glad she spoke up. At the Wednesday night meeting, she strug-gled with her emotions as she weighed in on the com-munity controversy caused by the abrupt dismissal of Bearden’s highly regarded softball coach, who took his team to the state tour-nament only to be told that his services were no longer required.

“I just had some ques-tions I wanted to get an-swered,” she said. “I wanted to come in with a bang and hit the ground running. Adam has prepared me well.”

Gabrielson’s predecessor, Adam Hasan, was also from Bearden High, something she feared would hurt her chances.

“I was pleasantly sur-prised,” she said. “And ob-viously, since student rep is the name of this position, I want to represent as many students as possible, and students need to feel free

to contact me, no matter what.”

When school starts, she plans to stay involved in activities like the student government, Key Club and Math Club. She plays piano and cello and is a member of the school orchestra and the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The daughter of Jay and Elsie Gabrielson, she has two brothers – Keith, a Bearden High School ju-nior and dual varsity ath-lete (football, baseball), and Reese, who is in the seventh grade.

“I’ve gone through pub-lic school my 12 years of schooling,” she said. “I feel like this is not only a way I can give back, but I can rep-resent a diverse culture of students that really need to be heard by the board.”

Gabrielson said she wants to hear from other students. She can be reached via [email protected] or through Twitter and Facebook.

Bearden High School senior Sydney Gabriel-

son’s fi rst day on the job as stu-dent school board rep-resentative began with a 7 a.m. drive to the Uni-versity of Ten ne s s e e

Medical Center. She’s par-ticipating in the Medical Ex-plorations Program, which allows rising seniors and recent high school graduates to shadow doctors and resi-dents as part of a six-week summer internship.

She was in surgery until 4:15 p.m., then drove down-town to be in her seat in the Andrew Johnson Build-ing in time for the school board’s July workshop meeting at 5 p.m. She didn’t get home until after 10:30.

And she wasn’t shy about jumping right into the ac-tion, zeroing in on the ad-ministration’s request to

Gabrielson

Betty Bean

Student school board rep hits the ground running

raise the prices of tickets to athletic events, passing along questions she’d gotten from students and parents.

“I’d just like to urge the board not to pass this,” she said, citing the fi nancial burden on families who at-tend games.

“I think you will lose stu-dent morale if you increase these ticket prices. Bearden (football) was one and nine last year, and I don’t think students from our school want to go and support a losing team when they have to pay $2 extra.”

Ultimately, the board ap-proved a maximum ticket price increase of $2 per ticket. Football tickets will be up to $8 at the gate, $6 advance student price, with lesser increases for other sporting events.

Effective Aug. 1, a charging fee of 4 cents per minute for Blink members and 6 cents per minute for Blink guests will be applied to stations at two city garages.

The city of Knoxville has reached an agree-ment with Car Charging Group Inc., the largest owner, operator and pro-vider of electric vehicle (EV) charging services, for the continued opera-tion and maintenance of the 10 Blink EV charging stations located at the

Market Square and Civic Coliseum parking garag-es.

These stations, along with two solar arrays and battery storage, were originally installed by Oak Ridge National Labo-ratory as part of a state-wide Department of En-ergy research project.

The Blink Level 2 EV charging stations quickly recharge an electric ve-hicle’s battery. EV drivers can become a Blink mem-ber at no cost. Info: www.BlinkNetwork.com.

Fee for car charging at 2 city garages

Football is not foreverThere must be a message

in the sad story of Antonio “Tiny” Richardson.

The very large former Volunteer looked like an NFL tackle in high school. All he had to do was learn the nuances and push past lazy periods.

As a Tennessee fresh-man, he was 6-6 and 330 and good enough to play with fi eld-goal units. He got additional experience at garbage time, when the Vols were safely ahead or out of contention.

He played one snap in the victory over Vanderbilt. He lined up at fullback and cleared a path for a Tauren Poole touchdown. Team-

Marvin West

mates said, “Wow!”Richardson was the start-

ing left tackle as a sopho-more, blindside protector for Tyler Bray. Tiny’s big body, perfectly sculpted, fi t per-fectly in Derek Dooley jokes.

The coach said he always looked carefully to gauge Tiny’s mood before taking the risk of yelling at him in practice. The coach said he gained confi dence just

standing beside Tiny, that when you have a man like that on your side, you know you have a chance to win.

On trips, the coach wanted Tiny to be fi rst off the bus. He was imposing enough to calm heckling crowds and create inferior-ity complexes.

Richardson played so well in 2012, it was easy to overlook false starts, mis-alignments, holding and other little infractions. In a clash of titans, he defeated South Carolina’s famous Jadeveon Clowney.

The Vols ran 71 plays against that really good Gamecock defense, and Richardson graded high or

at least acceptable on 70. On that other play, Clowney gave him an inside fake, went outside, hit Bray’s passing arm and forced a fumble that essentially won the game.

“To watch how he com-peted the whole game,’’ Dooley said, “it just breaks your heart that Clowney made an incredible play that last play, and it happens to be the one they are going to show on ESPN.”

That play and that loss probably factored in Dool-ey’s departure.

Before the 2013 season, there was talk that Tiny might go early to the NFL.

“The way I see it, I’m the best left tackle in the country.”

Those in the know said fi rst round, maybe top eight.

“That’s motivation, the

thought of seeing your name on draft boards. I see myself as a top-fi ve pick when the time comes, but that’s not my focus right now.”

First, he was going to take care of business.

Richardson didn’t play as well as a junior. He had a gimpy knee or knees. He was a central fi gure in an offensive line that looked great in warmups but un-derachieved. NFL scouts noticed.

Tiny realized football was not forever, that his playing time was limited, that he had better get some while he could. He committed to the draft. He was not spec-tacular at the combine. To his amazement, he endured three days of draft excite-ment without getting a call.

Minnesota signed him

as a free agent. There wasno bonus, none of the pre-dicted millions. He was paid$303,000. His agent andtaxes got their shares.

Tiny was injured in anexhibition game. He neededrepairs. He spent last sea-son on the “unable to per-form” list. He announc edhis retirement from footballa few weeks ago.

First thought was theRobert Burns line, “Thebest-laid plans o’ mice an’men …”

I do believe AntonioRichardson is a good man.He’ll survive. He may excel.I sure hope so.

There must be a messagein his story, a little some-thing about what mighthave been. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected].

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Alive After Five: John Myers Band, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Midnight Voyage LIVE: Snails, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAYSmoky Mountain Rumble, the Old City. In-

cludes guided-tour motorcycle rides, street festival, concerts by Black Stone Cherry and Molly Hatchet. Info/registration: www.smokymountainrumble.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY“Bambi: A Life in the Woods,” Knoxville

Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 208-3677 or www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

“The Spitfi re Grill,” a soulful & inspiring musical presented by The WordPlayers, Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: wordplayers.org, knoxbijou.com, 684-1200 and at the door.

SATURDAY“An Evening for Champions,” 7 p.m.,

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Hard Knox Roller Girls Home Team Championships, 5-7 p.m., Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Ave. Tickets: Coliseum box offi ce, team members and team website. Info: www.hardknoxrollergirls.com; on Facebook.

Jazzspirations LIVE, 7 p.m., Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St.

Second Saturday Concerts at The Cove: Kitty Wampus, 6-8 p.m., The Cove at Concord Park, 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Info: www.knoxcounty.org/parks.

Vintage baseball game, noon, Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Featuring the Holstons vs. Emmett Machinists. Free admission. Info: www.ramseyhouse.org.

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current top 40, spirituals and the most challenging, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’” he says. “This cast is up to the music, choreography and teamwork needed to bring a great night of entertain-ment and laughter for the audience.”

Roberts is well-known for his past portrayals of former embattled state Sen. Stacey Campfi eld, whose antics have provided years of fodder for the Follies. Campfi eld will be “honored” with a retrospective featur-ing parodies of the songs “Thanks for the Memories” and “My Way.”

Also honored – for real – will be senior Knoxville News Sentinel sports colum-nist John Adams. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Adams has been named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

Other parodies include “It’s All About That Bass,” referencing bestselling au-thor Dr. Bill Bass of UT’s Body Farm; “Vote Mad-eline,” a tribute to Mayor Rogero sung to “I Walk the Line”; “Ghostworkers,” sung to the tune of “Ghost-busters,” about the Knox County Trustee scandal; and a brilliant “Republican Rhapsody,” which skew-ers not only Republicans but, well, pretty much ev-erybody. “We’re an equal-opportunity offender,” says Lauver.

Directed by the Clarence Brown Theatre’s musical di-rector, Terry Silver-Alford, the show brings down the house every year, and this year will be no exception.

Masters of ceremo-nies will be Lori Tucker of WATE-TV, John Becker of WBIR-TV and Alan Wil-liams of WVLT-TV. The show will also feature mete-

orologists from local TV sta-tions singing “Let It Snow! Let It Rain! Let It Blow!”

And it’s all for a good cause. Follies proceeds fund journalism and elec-tronic media scholarships at the University of Tennessee and Pellissippi State Com-munity College, as well as educational programs of the Front Page Foundation.

The 37th annual Front Page Follies starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 18, with a cash bar/reception followed by dinner, live auction and the stage show.

Individual tickets are $125, and a portion of each purchase is tax deductible.

To join in the fun with friends or colleagues and get priority seating, people may purchase tables of 10 for $1,250.

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By Betsy PickleThe clash between art

and the machinery of celeb-rity has rarely had as tragic a trajectory as it did with Amy Winehouse.

That’s the takeaway from “Amy,” the poignant new documentary directed by Asif Kapadia.

“Amy” fi nds the everyday voice behind the amazing performing voice of the su-perstar who died less than two months before her 28th birthday in 2011. As a docu-mentary, it’s a remarkable accomplishment – a fi lm created primarily from ex-isting material, much of it from low-tech cell-phone footage, without the talking heads of a traditional doc.

Kapadia has the experts – family, friends and asso-ciates who knew Winehouse best – but he uses voiceovers instead of on-camera inter-views so that he can keep the focus on the singer and show her three-dimension-ality. He also illustrates her story with performances

that chart her deserved rise and disastrous fall.

Those who watched from a distance might have been aware of Winehouse’s blue-sy, non-prefab voice but dismissed her as a musical force because of her highly publicized problems with drugs and alcohol. Fans took her more seriously, but even they wouldn’t have been privy to the insights provided in “Amy.”

Many of those come from Winehouse’s oldest friends, Juliette Ashby and Lauren Gilbert, and her fi rst man-ager and friend Nick Shy-mansky. There are also rev-elations from more famous folk, such as her friend Ya-siin Bey (aka Mos Def) and collaborator Tony Bennett.

The story that emerges is of a precocious yet sensi-tive girl from North London whose parents’ divorce cre-ates a chasm in her own life. That event echoes through her adolescence on into her teens, when rebellion and self-destructive habits form

Also opening …In addition to “Amy,”

three other fi lms make their Knoxville bow this week:

“Self/less” – Ryan Reyn-olds, Natalie Martinez, Mat-thew Goode and Ben Kings-ley. A wealthy man dying of cancer has his consciousness transferred into the body of a healthy young man.

“Minions” – Voicesof Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton. Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by a woman with world-domi-nation aspirations.

“The Gallows” – Re-ese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos. Teens attempt to honor the anniversary of a school tragedy and instead unleash evil.

The 2015 Front Page Follies cast promises a night of music and laughter. Front: Marga-

ret Elliott, Melanie Staten, Stacy Holley. Back: Kristine Kinsey, David Lauver, Mike How-

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Murphy, Vince Staten, JereBeth Doherty, Terry Silver-Alford. Photo by Kristi Nelson Bumpus

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Winehouse doc focuses on talent, loss

Friends Juliette Ashby and Amy Winehouse explore music to-

gether as teens in “Amy.”

a dangerous but creative al-liance with her poetry/lyr-ics and songwriting.

While the demons are there, the young Amy is fun and, in a way, normal. She uses songwriting as a sort of therapy, but her talent gets her noticed, and she starts down the road to a music career.

As Kapadia highlights Winehouse’s lyrics on the screen, using them as the

narrative, she makes her rise from obscurity. A play-ful relationship with drugs grows serious. Boyfriends become another form of de-pendency.

She welcomes success but worries about it. Some of her comments are eerie foreshadowing of the turns her life will take.

“Amy” could have been the ultimate cautionary tale, but it isn’t. It’s viscer-

By Carol ShaneThe wiseguys of local me-

dia are at it again.Writers David Lauver,

Mark Harmon, Megan Jones, Frank Murphy, Er-nie Roberts, Melanie Staten and Vince Staten will be part of a big cast that’s go-ing to bring their irrever-ent script to life at the 37th annual Front Page Follies, happening Saturday night, July 18. You’d think the show would, in theater lin-go, be “frozen” by now, but head writer Lauver is still penning parodies. That’s the nature of news satire – you’ve got to keep up with incoming stories.

“We still have at least one more song to complete,” says Lauver. “For the Lady Vols’ ‘Leggo Our Logo’ skit, we’re writing ‘Stand By Our Brand.’” Skits are often tabled when a more up-to-date, gotta-be-covered news event happens.

Sponsored by the East Tennessee Society of Pro-fessional Journalists, the evening begins with a cash bar/reception and includes a silent auction, good food and a live auction. The eve-ning’s main event is the vaudeville-style, multime-dia musical show, similar to those put on by political satirists The Capitol Steps, but on a local level.

Cast member Ernie Rob-erts is jazzed about this year’s show.

“The music is more di-verse than ever before with movie and show tunes, country music, yodeling,

ally personal and uniquely loyal to its subject. Even with potentially stereotypi-cal villains on board – a self-serving father, a loser beau, various music-biz movers and shakers – and Winehouse’s own blatantly bad choices, this is not a template for a reap-what-you-sow parable.

“Amy” is a portrait of an artist who was pushed into a role she wasn’t prepared to play. It’s also an indictment of the circus that comes with fame, but it doesn’t feel a part of that hypocrisy.

A tribute to the talent of Winehouse, “Amy” re-veals the person behind the hype and the loss the world should feel over her untime-ly death.

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By Zoe Brookshire-RisleyI have always loved

heights. I sit up on the high-est branches of trees. When I rock climb I go all the way to the top. I am looking for new high places everywhere I go. Whether it’s simply sit-ting on the kitchen counter or hiking up a mountain and dangling my legs off the edge of a cliff, I love having my feet off the ground.

Naturally, I was psyched when I heard we would be going to Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio. Dragonfl y is a nonprofi t that helps bring aerial arts to everyone. They work with people with dis-abilities, children from low-er-income neighborhoods, as well as people who simply didn’t think they could.

Lissa McLeod, a teacher at Dragonfl y, said Dragonfl y is about “getting everyone in the air” and helping people “learn they have strengths they didn’t know they had.”

At Dragonfl y, they teach many different aerial arts, in-cluding trapeze, lyra (a large hoop that gets suspended

from the ceiling), and my personal favorite, silks.

Not only are silks beau-tiful, they make you feel beautiful. While I was sus-pended in the air, hanging upside down with my limbs stretched out and my toes pointed, I felt like I could touch the corners of the world. I’ve always wanted to be a ballerina. I admire their grace and dedication to their craft. I’ve also al-ways wanted to fl y. Aerial arts combines the beauty and grace of dance and the feeling of being free that be-ing up in the air gives you. I really hope I will get the chance to take classes at Dragonfl y and make aerial arts a part of my life.

Dragonfl y offers classes and camps to everyone over the age of 6. They also have scholarship and work/study programs for folks who need fi nancial aid. To fi nd out more, they have an open house coming up 7-10 p.m. Saturday, July 18. Info: www.dragonfl yaerial artsstudio.com.

Lissa McLeod guides intern Betty Mengesha on the fabric ropes.

By Shannon CareyYou could make the case

that our visit to Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio is the most fun our interns have had so far.

Teacher Lissa McLeod greeted the group and spoke about the studio and its mission. Then, she invited the interns to take a turn on trapeze and fabrics. There were smiles all around, and this old reporter even got in on the fun.

Dragonfl y offers a full range of classes for aerial arts and circus skills, includ-ing juggling, unicycle riding, tightrope, clowning, trapeze,

and of course those iconic fabrics. McLeod got into aerial arts during her activi-ties as a political organizer. She used the arts to convey messages, moving from huge puppets to stilt-walking.

“When I found aeri-als I was like, this is it,” she said. “There are a lot of things you can learn by getting off the ground and looking at things from a different perspective.”

The studio, located off Central Avenue Pike near Merchants, holds “try-me” classes every Monday night.

“All kinds of people can do it,” said McLeod.

Interns in the air

Taking fl ight with Dragonfl y

By Shannon CareyInterns passed a fun afternoon on

Market Square in downtown Knoxville, starting with a visit to the Knoxville Chamber. Communications and Market-ing Manager Jenny Woodbery gave the interns a tour of the facility and a sum-mary of what the Chamber does.

Of the Chamber’s more than 2,000 member businesses, 80 percent are small, local enterprises. The Chamber helps advise start-ups and advocates for

businesses in public policy.Woodbery holds a journalism degree, so

the interns’ visit was fun for her, as is her job writing for the Chamber.

“The variety of everything we do, it’s fun for me as a writer,” she said. “I get to write about everything.”

Interns visited the shops on Market Square, including getting Italian ice at Rita’s. Then, they walked through the al-ley on the east side of Market Square to admire the graffi ti art there.

Touring Market Square

Jenny Woodbery with the Knoxville Chamber talks to the Shop-

per interns about the services provided to business members.

By Annie Dockery Knoxville is the fi rst city

in Tennessee to adopt the Young Entrepreneurs Acad-emy (YEA), a program de-signed to give young people real-world business experi-ence. For three hours a week for 30 weeks, students from grades six through 12 have the opportunity to create their own real business or social movement.

Lori Fuller of the Knox-ville Chamber of Commerce explained that students will spend the fi rst few weeks brainstorming and develop-ing ideas. Additionally, stu-

dents will learn about pat-ents and business taxes from lawyers, while also learning market analysis. Students will implement knowledge to initiate their own real busi-nesses and work with poten-tial investors. The program will lead to regional and national competitions; the national winner will partici-pate in ABC’S “Shark Tank.”

The program has a lim-ited amount of space and little time left to apply; how-ever, spots are still avail-able. Info or to apply: www.knoxvillechamberberber.com/yea

Yea for YEA!

By Shannon CareySomewhere near the intersection of healthy

and delicious is where you’ll fi nd Matt Mill-er, owner and operator of Good Golly Tamale. Good Golly is a true mobile business, with Miller pedaling to different venues on his food trike.

Miller welcomed Shopper-News interns into the kitchen he uses in Knoxville’s Old City, where he and his help-ers make up to 1,000 tamales every week. Then he served us lunch, and it was fabulous.

But these aren’t the tama-les you get at the local diner. These are traditional Cen-tral American tamales, corn masa with natural fi llings wrapped in real corn husks.

“It’s a lot more nutritious than just cornmeal,” Miller said of the organic, non-GMO masa he orders in bulk from San Diego.

Good Golly got its start when a friend of Miller’s came back from a trip to Central America and wanted to make a burrito cart business. Miller, who had worked in food ser-vice for some time, wanted to be self-employed and got on board. The plan changed from burritos to tamales since burritos get soggy over time, but the corn husks keep ta-males hot and fresh with just a little steam. Then the friend moved to California, and Miller forged ahead.

“Pieces of it just started coming together,” Miller said. A neighbor gave Miller the trike, then a friend built the

warming box on back. He started making ta-males during the day at the Public House.

“We actually paid rent with tama-les,” he said. Good Golly is now us-

ing the kitchen in the former Aisle 9 grocery in the Old City.

And those delicious recipes? They come from the Lawson-McGhee Library and Miller’s head.

“I’m a pretty intuitive cook,” he said. “I read through a bunch of different recipes, and then I

just made stuff up and continue to make things up. We don’t really

have strict recipes.”Miller and his helpers

are committed to the busi-ness. Miller said he has put in 90 hours per week for the past month. Sometimes he

gets catering orders which require even more time.“If you’re thinking that you might want to start a food

cart, think long and hard, because it’s a lot of work,” he told the interns. “But I like it. I like doing it. Whatever you want to do, just do it with all your heart and soul. It feels good to be able to own the work and care for it.”

Good Golly Tamale visits the Market Square Farmers Market every Wednesday and Saturday, and visits other venues throughout the week. Find them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more info.

Good eatin’ with Good Golly Tamale

Intern Maggie Williams helps serve bean soup to the

group at the Good Golly Tamale kitchen in the Old City.

By Charlie HamiltonHave you ever been

around a 3-D printer?Take some time to think

of some household items that are plastic. These items might have came from a 3-D printer. We walked around Market Square and got to visit some of the shops, and we went into a shop called Local Motors.

As we walked into the

3-D printers in action

Shopper-News interns

gather in front of the

women’s suff rage memo-

rial on Market Square.

Feminism then and nowBy Zoe Brookshire-Risley

Last week we visited many spots on Market Square.

When people think of Market Square they may think of the great shopping, delicious food, or the ever present street performers. Few people think of the Tennessee women’s suffrage memorial, although it’s pretty hard to miss.

The memorial is the large metal statue of three wom-en, fi ghting for their right to vote.

The women are (from left) Elizabeth Avery Meri-wether from Memphis, Lizzie Crozier French from Knoxville, and Anne Dallas Dudley from Nashville.

Lizzie Crozier French was, among many other things, a feminist.

There are many facets to the modern feminist move-ment, and some of them are similar to the issues fought for in the time of Lizzie Crozier French. Back in the 1920s, women wanted to be paid the same as men for the same labor.

Today, although paying someone less because of their gender, race or religion is illegal, it still happens.

In the 1920s, women wanted the right to vote and have a voice in politics. To-day, less than 20 percent of U.S. Congress members are

women, and we still haven’t had a female president.

And those are only the in-stitutional issues. There are a whole host of social con-structs that prevent women from having the same op-portunities and privileges as men.

Oppression of women ex-ists, and we need feminism to help change that.

Unfortunately these days you hear the word feminism with a negative subtext. With the “#FeministsAr-eUgly” trend on Twitter and the term “feminazi” being used to describe just about any woman who stands up for her rights, being a femi-

nist is diffi cult.Too often, women who

stand up for themselves and their rights are met with death threats and threats of sexual assault.

No one should ever be threatened for wanting equality. Being a feminist is hard these days, and many women don’t call them-selves feminists because of the stigma surrounding the movement.

The dictionary defi ni-tion of a feminist is “a per-son who believes in the so-cial, political and economic equality of the sexes.”

Now what’s so bad about that?

shop we saw a couple of small 3-D printers that were printing numerous objects. There were also blueprints and a model of a car sitting on a table.

I asked one of the people working in the showroom what it was for, and he re-plied that it was called a Rally Fighter, which is a 3-D printed tube-frame street-legal performance off-road vehicle. Just imagine a 3-D printed car.

What else can a 3-D printer make? Local Motors makes products, from 3-D printed cars to small toys.

How these objects are designed is state-of-the-art, too! The program they use to create these products is called Computer Aided Drafting, or CAD for short, which takes measurements and designs an item on a computer which is sent to a machine like a 3-D printer to create the product.

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Additionally, Cook served in the Army as a military police investigator and hand-to-hand combat instructor, leaving in 2008 as, he says, the last Vietnam veteran from Knoxville, where he moved more than 10 years ago, to retire from military service.

While James Cook is famous in fi ghting circles, Jimmy Logston made his reputation as a musician. Cook,

whose grandfather taught him to play guitar, started writing songs at age 10. He has worked with The Dazz Band, The Impressions, Lee Greenwood, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Stevens and oth-ers. He was signed as a recording artist by Otis Blackwell—noted songwriter for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Peggy Lee. The stint ended, however, when Blackwell died unexpectedly in 2002. In 2000, Cook released an album, “Reunion of Life,” dedicated to his time in Vietnam.

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