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IN THIS ISSUE

Interns visit Kern’sAt fi rst glance, the old

Kern’s Bakery is a mess. Erect-ed in 1931, it is 90,000 square feet on 14 acres – a South Knox landmark on Chapman Highway.

Where most developers might see a great spot for a new Walmart, David Dewhirst sees exposed brick, oak fl oor-boards, and another chance to make Knoxville unique.

➤ The interns report on page 6

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By Betty BeanNot to say that those who run for offi ce

can’t be also good people, but the qualities that made Anne Woodle a crappy politician were the very things that made her a fi ne human – unswerving fealty to what she believed to be right and an unfettered refusal to compromise her principles, even when she knew that the stands she was taking were incompatible with longevity in offi ce.

Like the time she served on the elec-tion commission and refused to vote to hire the candidate for administrator favored by Knox County’s most powerful local Democrat (that would be Joe Armstrong) because she believed another candidate was more quali-fi ed. Woodle’s candidate won, but she lost her seat come reappointment time.

And she probably never lost a night’s sleep over it.

Same deal with her single term on the school board. Knox County Schools had run into trouble with the federal govern-ment because students who attended

schools outside the city limits enjoyed bus ser-vice while those who attended schools inside the city limits had to fend for themselves. Since the county couldn’t afford to pay for bus ser-vice for all, it had to take drastic measures.

The political fallout was severe, even though anybody with two grams of gray matter knew

the inequity couldn’t continue. The resulting parental responsibility zones meant no more bus service for families living close to schools,

and that city kids living some distance away would ride instead of walk. Woodle voted

for the changes and became a one-term-er.

That one hurt, but probably more for the vicious racist attacks on her teen-aged son, Jason, who is bi-racial, than for anything that happened to her.

Woodle, whose sudden death last week from a catastrophic stroke has left

her friends (and there are lots of them) stunned and reeling, was a single parent and loved her son fi ercely.

And the true fact that can be backed up in court (as Cas Walker used to say) was that Woodle pretty much loved all children. As di-

rector of the East Tennessee Children’s Reha-bilitation Center for more than 30 years, it was her job to care for children in fragile health. During her off hours, she’d turn down dates

By Betsy PickleMayor Madeline Rogero kayaks

and has been known to skydive. So when she got rigged up to check out the Navitat Canopy Tour at Ijams Nature Center, it was a walk in the park.

“It’s not hard when you’ve jumped out of a plane,” she said, unfazed after soaring down the zipline at the ground school train-ing session required before head-ing out on any of the six Navitat “trails.” She looked like a kid at play after the offi cial opening of Navitat on Thursday.

But what about the rest of us – the many, the not-skinny, the couch potatoes? Do we belong in this daring world of rope, cable and zipline trails fi lled with obsta-cles, set high in the trees of Ijams?

I felt it was my duty to fi nd out.“Not athletically inclined” is a

kind way to describe me. But Mary Thom Adams, Ijams’ optimistic development director and assis-tant executive director, assured me that I could do it.

Benjy Darnell, general manager of Navitat at Ijams, was equally encouraging.

As a quick test, I had to walk a quarter-mile paved trail from the visitor center to the Navitat ground school. Uphill.

Cinched it.And then the ground school.

Challenge one is getting into the harness. Darnell got me into straps where I didn’t even know I had parts. Easygoing and very patient, he explained what all the straps and gadgets did. Most im-portant, he showed how I could never unhook myself from a cable

Goats are backKudzu-eating goats and

their watchdog arrived at Fort Dickerson yesterday (July 21) and will be there for four to six weeks.

“Goats are a great, non-toxic way to manage kudzu and other invasive vegetation,” said Chad Weth, city public service deputy director.

The city contracts for the goat labor with Whistle Pig Farms of Thorn Hill, Tenn. Goats are currently being used at Williams Creek for weed control in a partnership be-tween the city and the Tennes-see Clean Water Network.

The goats will complement work being done to reconfi gure and realign the entrance to Fort Dickerson from Chapman Highway. The project consists of 485 feet of new two-lane roadway that connects to the Woodlawn Pike intersection, creating a safer and more vis-ible street entrance into the park. In addition, intersection improvements have been made to the Woodlawn-Chapman Highway intersection with new pedestrian signals and crosswalks.

The Aslan Foundation purchased the adjacent prop-erty (formerly home to G&R Automotive) and has hired CRJA Landscape Architects to perform the landscap-ing designs on the improved entrance. Additional park fea-tures will include the retaining wall façade, a sidewalk on the north side of the new road, tree plantings and a new KAT bus shelter scheduled for comple-tion by the end of the year.

Anne Woodle: lousy politician, splendid human

Even couch potatoes can do it

Ijams executive director Paul

James, Mayors Tim Burchett and

Madeline Rogero, backed by other

dignitaries, are ready to cut the rib-

bon, er, drop the rope at the Navi-

tat Treehouse. Photos by Betsy Pickle

while up in the air.All harnessed in, I climbed a

tree ladder to a platform 15ish feet above ground for challenge two. In front of me was a cable attached to a tree a mile away (almost). I had

on my helmet and gloves. I was clicked onto the cable, and my trolley was in position. So why did my feet not want to give up a solid platform for thin air?

“Crouch and go, or just step

off,” said Darnell, helpfully, from the ground. It took a stern talking to myself, but I fi nally stepped off. I zipped down the cable. I braked the way Darnell had taught me. I

Soaring at Navitat

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City turns attention to Clinch AvenueCity crews hope to reopen the

Clinch Avenue Viaduct spanning World’s Fair Park on Monday, July 27. It was closed as part of a $2.7 million infrastructure upgrade that will enhance the route for pe-destrian and bicycle traffi c from the University of Tennessee area to downtown.

The project includes a new pe-destrian walkway and canopy that will connect the Knoxville Con-

vention Center with the Holiday Inn Downtown and new Tennes-sean residential development. Cranes will be setting in place 70-foot and 40-foot sections of the canopy. The work will continue through August, but the bridge will reopen to traffi c.

Infrastructure upgrades also include a rejuvenation of the Hen-ley Street pedestrian bridge at Clinch Avenue – covering it with

a frosted-glass roof, replacing the metal cage fencing with perforat-ed metal panels and adding deco-rative lighting.

Streetscape amenities will be put in on the Clinch Avenue bridge. Three traffi c lanes will be reduced to two 10-foot-wide lanes, and 5-foot-wide bicycle lanes will be created on both sides. The sidewalks on the viaduct will be widened, and planter boxes with

landscaping and benches will be installed to make it a better pe-destrian and bicycle connector be-tween Fort Sanders, World’s Fair Park and downtown.

Most of the work will be fin-ished by the end of August. The lighting on the Henley Street pedestrian bridge and upgrades to the elevator tower are slated to be completed about a month later.

Anne Woodle. Photo provided by North Hills Garden Club

Teacher incentive pay out for FY16

Sandra Clark writes: “Let’s lose the evaluation rubric, the strategic compensation matrix and the committee that’s refor-matting incentive pay. APEX is gone, and it’s not coming back.

“Let’s launch the new year with teachers and kids excited about returning to school, not feeling overwhelming dread.

➤ Read Clark’s column on page 5

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Dr. Yau

It was a simple break and a simple solution. When Teresa Williams fell and fractured her hip, Dr. Paul Yau saw no need for a total hip replacement.

“She didn’t have a lot of arthritis to begin with, she didn’t have a lot of hip pain beforehand,” said Dr. Yau, the ortho-pedic surgeon who han-dled Williams’ surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “There are times where we do hip replacements, but she’s a runner – we don’t advocate a lot of folks run on hip replacements. So from the get-go, when I talked to her about her activity level and what she wanted to do af-ter recovery, it was pretty much a no-brainer – just � x her hip.”

It took only 20 to 30 minutes for Dr. Yau to repair her fractured ball joint, but Dr. Yau says it took “a lot of years and a lot of training” to

learn the surgical skill required to make a bone repair stable enough to withstand the demands of long-distance running.

“I was proud of her and I was impressed that we could get her up and moving that quick. We have invested a lot of energy and resources building a comprehensive service line for hip fracture care,” said Dr. Yau, who is chair of FS-RMC’s orthopedic department. “We’re trying to be less invasive with surgery; we’re trying to be less stressful with anesthesia, doing surgery in such a way that people can put full weight on the hip right away. I guess it’s the culmination of all the efforts we’ve put into this program, and it’s paid off.”

While some cases leave no other option than total hip replacement, the inter-disciplinary team of physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, radiologists, and others at FSRMC seek to “save hips” whenever possible, particularly when the patients are younger and still active.

“When we see younger, more athletic indi-viduals, we try to save hips,” said Dr. Yau. “Cer-tainly, there are options to replace hips when they break but sometimes you can save them

in younger individuals, particularly those who want to run. Saving the hips actually allows them to do more and allows them to return to a higher level of function. Saving hips is always the most desirable option because as good as implants are, nothing is as good as what God gave you.”

While hip fractures are most common in the elderly, Dr. Yau says there’s evidence that they are increasing among those in the their 50s and early 60s, largely because of osteoporosis due to diet or genetics. “I’ve had some patients in their early 40s with fractures,” he added. “Some people are just more active. These are young ac-tive people trying to do different activities and they break their hips.”

At the same time, Dr. Yau says, being physi-cally � t and active should help reduce the risk of fracture. “The more people are active with things like weight-bearing exercise, getting out in the sun (a natural source of Vitamin D), hav-ing a good diet – all of this is very helpful for preventing hip fractures,” he said.

Also useful in reducing the risk of hip frac-ture, said Dr. Yau, is to develop one’s proprio-

ception, or ability to sense the body’s position,motion, and equilibrium. “It can help develop the coordination and placement of the footwhen you are trying to be active and putting it ingood positions as opposed to at-risk positions,”he said. “These sort of activities develop skillsbetween your brain, your nerves, your musclesand your feet – all those things are very helpfulwhen you are trying to prevent hip fractures.”

Yet another useful tool in reducing falls, he said, is the ancient mind-body practice calledTai-Chi because of the slow, intentional mo-tions used. “The motions where you go back-wards are particularly helpful because you can’tsee where you are going – you rely on sensationthrough the foot, through the knee and throughthe hip and putting those in good positions anddeveloping the � ne motor skills that controlyour leg position, the strength, the coordina-tion of that leg as your move, both forward,backward, sideways and all those different di-rections. All those things have been shown toreduce the incidence of falls and if you don’tfall, it’s kind of hard to break your hip.”

On the road againhip fracture doesn’t stop Knoxville runner

It was no fractured fairy tale – the truth hurt all the way to Teresa Williams’ bone. But when the Knoxville runner broke her right hip during warm-ups last Feb. 3, ortho-pedic surgeon Dr. Paul Yau of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center was there to pro-vide a storybook ending.

Just seven weeks after fracturing her hip, Williams, a determined 58-year-old runner with the Knoxville Track Club’s Knox Run group, crossed the 50-yard line at Neyland Stadium to a chorus of cheers, applause, hugs and high-� ves.

Never mind that she had actually walked “only” the fourth leg of the Covenant Health Marathon’s four-legged team relay, a dis-tance of 6.5 miles – she did so on a walker decorated with ribbons and balloons and draped with a poster that read: “My hip might be broke BUT NOT my determination or spirit. 7 weeks post surgery.”

“I had to get back. I had to,” said Williams, who had already “run” three 5Ks on her walk-er in the weeks prior to the Covenant Health relay. “I think there was a reason it hap-pened. I don’t know if the Lord just singled me out that night or for that particular period or what, but as you look at it and watch how people reacted in these races when I was us-ing the walker, they’d say ‘That’s determina-tion!’ or ‘Don’t give up. I like the don’t-give-up attitude.’ I thought, ‘Maybe that’s what it’s about, that people would see that and be inspired.’”

Along the way, photographer Paul E� rd captured Williams in the Covenant Health relay on her walker, a shot published along with the race results in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Pleased not only by her own per-formance but also that of her surgery at Fort Sanders Medical Center, she dropped off a copy of the newspaper at Dr. Yau’s of� ce.

“I’m extremely proud of her,” said Dr. Yau. “The fact that I put that much energy into saving someone’s hip and they actually used it for that purpose is extremely reward-ing just to know I could make a difference in her life. It’s certainly a routine surgery but it has made an enormous impact on people’s lives. Seeing her in the paper is such a great

reward for all those years of training.”“Now, I have to concede, she is a very mo-

tivated individual,” Dr. Yau added. “So she needs to be recognized for her hard work, how much effort she put into rehab – we couldn’t do any of that for her – she had to do the exercises herself, get on her feet, work the muscles and do everything she could to recover from surgery.”

Williams, who has been running mostly 5Ks (3.1 miles) and half-marathons (13.1 miles) for the past � ve years, was training for an upcoming race when she broke her hip while doing “side-steps,” a warm-up exercise. “I don’t know if my leg didn’t pick up right or what, but I went down like a domino.”

The fall resulted in a “clean break” of the ball joint. Fortunately, the fractured bones did not move, enabling Dr. Yau to use three cannulated screws to put the bone together

again rather than replacing the hip. “When Dr. Yau came in and told me what

he was going to do, I said, ‘But I’ve got a half-marathon in April! What am I going to do?!’ Plus, I had a half-marathon set that Saturday and I knew I couldn’t do it. But he said, ‘You can clearly walk that one.’ And I said, ‘OK. When can I run?’ And he said, ‘In May.’ And I said, ‘that’s do-able. OK.’”

The day after surgery, Dr. Yau returned to Williams’ room to introduce the team and how they would be working with her. “He said, ‘This is Teresa Williams, a 58-year-old woman who’s a runner, and she wants to get back into it. The team is going to help you get there.’”

That mission began almost immediately with therapy during her hospital stay and continuing with home health care after she was discharged two days after surgery. In no

time at all, Williams was on her walker andusing 5Ks to rehabilitate her hip. By May16, she had tossed the walker aside andwas jogging and walking a half-marathonin Viola, Tenn.

Since then she has run several races,and a nephew who is a cross-country coachtells her that he’ll have her quali� ed forthe Boston Marathon in two years. “That’swhat HE says – I say I don’t have 26 milesin me,” she says with a laugh.

Her times aren’t yet what they oncewere, but for now, she’s just happy to bejog-walking at every opportunity. On herarms, she wears compression sleeves em-blazoned, “One day I won’t be able to do this. Today is not that day.”

“I’m usually crying when I cross the � n-ish line of my half-marathons,” she said.“I’m just so excited to be able to do it be-cause, who knows? I could’ve been crip-pled or not able to participate at all. Those sleeves take on a whole new meaning everytime I put them on because today is not theday I’m going to say, ‘I can’t do it.’ DNF(Did Not Finish) is not acceptable.’ I don’ttrain to get DNFs!”

Yet, Williams is quick to credit Dr. Yaufor those � nishes.

“Dr. Yau is a great physician. He re-ally is,” said Williams. “I’ve had some otherproblems – runners usually have runner’sknee – so I told him about my knees giv-ing me trouble and I wanted to make surethey didn’t do that while I was doing a half-marathon. So he said he would make surehe took care of them. So, if I have to haveanything done, he’s the person I will go to.I recommend him whenever I can.”

“I like a doctor who listens to whatI have to say. Who knows more abouttheir body than yourself?” she added. “Dr.Yau understood how important runningwas to me. When he saw the picture ofme on the walker at the Covenant Mara-thon, I think he saw how important it wasto me to get back. I’ve got to. Those are my friends. Running is my connection toeverybody.”

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and social occasions to take a kid to a movie.

Indya Kincannon, who met Woodle in 2004 when Kincannon fi rst ran for school board, is in Europe with her family and had to break the news of Woodle’s death to her young daugh-ters, Dahlia and Georgia. She describes Woodle as a supporter, mentor and a true friend.

“Anne met my daugh-ters when they were just 6 months old and two, and since day one made them feel special and important. She created annual rituals – birthday adventures, thrift-

shopping, cookie bakingand decorating – that Dahl-ia and Georgia loved.

“Since our parents livefar away, Anne was liketheir surrogate Tennes-see Grandma, who couldjust love, spoil and enjoythem. Anne read to my kidswhen they were little, andlater started a book clubfor Dahlia and her friendMaya. My girls considerAnne their dear friend, notjust a friend of mine who’snice to them. She reallyconnected with kids in away that is rare. We willmiss her so much.”

And so will I.

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potatoes can have fun in the trees at Navitat. Photo by Benjy Darnell

didn’t lose any body parts. Next was a hike through

the woods to the Treehouse. Built for play, with whim-sical elements created by artist Kelly Brown, the two-tiered structure is where all the trails start – two easy and one moderate from the lower level, two moderate and one diffi cult from the

upper level.A f t e r

taking a few p i c t u r e s , I shocked Darnell by ind ic at ing that I want-ed to go out on a trail – “not the

whole thing, just partway.” He led me to the easiest, the “Fish Trail.” The fi rst section looked like your standard movie swinging bridge, only with leaves down below instead of rag-ing rapids or sharp rocks.

This is where being 5 feet tall hurt me. There are thick ropes at waist-height, but they swing and sway. Above are sturdy, taut cables, but they were just barely within my reach. Meanwhile, the bridge’s horizontal pieces were too far apart to strad-dle, so I had to use the per-pendicular slats to get to the horizontals, which meant I was constantly tilting.

The going was slow, and I made it through only one section. But even the paltry distance I covered was a rush. I can’t wait to go back – on a slow day so I don’t

Vestal Boys & Girls Club staff er Stewart Richard-

son perches next to one area where thieves have

taken vegetables – and destroyed plants in the

process – in the raised beds. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Bad neighbors Someone is stealing food

from the kids.

And not just any food – it’s food they’ve grown themselves.

Staff and volunteers built raised garden beds for the Vestal Boys & Girls Club, based at the South Knox-ville Community Center, last year. The colorfully decorat-ed planters boast the paint-ed handprints of about 125 Boys & Girls Club members.

Many of those hands have helped to plant this year’s vegetables, such as lettuce, zucchini, green beans and green peppers. So imagine their faces when they discovered that some-one else had started picking their vegetables.

“They made posters asking people not to steal their vegetables,” says Kara Strouse, Vestal Boys & Girls Club program director. “Then it rained, and all the posters were ruined.”

Strouse bought pre-de-signed posters to discour-age thievery, but it’s impos-sible to police the garden, especially after hours. The garden is part of the club’s outdoor learning center on Mayfi eld Avenue, which is open to the public when the club is closed.

“It sends a bad message to the kids: You shouldn’t try to do things; people will just take them from you,” says B&G Club staffer Stew-art Richardson, who has helped the kids in the gar-den this summer. It’s partic-

ularly disheartening when you consider the work the children have put in during the summer heat.

“We have sprinklers now, but they used to carry wa-ter up there several times a day,” says Richardson.

Some plants have been destroyed during the thefts. He doesn’t know if the thievery is the work of one person or more. But the im-pact is felt by many.

Club members use the veg-etables in cooking class, and

they learn a lot about the pro-cess of bringing food to the table. They don’t even mind having to weed. Any time spent in the garden is fun to them, Richardson says.

“They love it.”

■ Good neighbors Now that the Vestal Com-

munity Organization has succeeded in shepherding the Mary Vestal Park Gre-enway Extension to comple-tion, the group is ready for another challenge.

Oh, but wait. They still have plans for something big at Mary Vestal, something that will involve the whole community, something that’s – very fun, special and under wraps for now, and you should attend the next VCO meeting (6 p.m. the sec-

ond Monday of each month at the South Knoxville Com-munity Center) to fi nd out more and help.

In the meantime, at July’s VCO meeting, Ben Epperson from the Knox County Health Department announced that Mary Vestal Greenway could be extend-ed the other direction – all the way to Downtown Ves-tal. The city has acquired the vacant lot at the corner of Martin Mill Pike and Ogle Avenue, and it would be relatively easy to connect it to Downtown Vestal.

Now, all that’s left is to connect Mary Vestal to Fort Dickerson. And don’t think the VCO isn’t already work-ing on that (with the help of a friend at the Greenways Commission). Stay tuned.

REUNION NOTES ■ Central High School classes

of 1957-1964 reunion will be

held 6-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

15, at The Grande Event Cen-

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Benny Easterday, 207-9634.

■ Halls High multiyear re-union: Classes of 1976-1981 will be 6:30 p.m.-midnight

Saturday, Sept. 26, Red Gate

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Once upon a time, long, long ago, Tennessee called itself Wide Receiver U. The thought lingers. It is now a myth.

Tennessee has an inter-esting history of catching thrown balls and a current crop of potential standouts blessed with large reputa-tions and many stars from recruiting analysts. Unfor-tunately, there is more talk than touchdowns. Stats do not measure up to hype.

We don’t really know what the Volunteer rotation of receivers looks like. They live under a black cloud. Two or three are always injured. Some missed much of last season. Some missed spring practice while rehabbing re-pairs. One disappeared in a criminal investigation.

‘Potential’ instead of results

Marvin West

Butch Jones had spring practice complaints about dropped passes. Once or twice he exclaimed over his portable public address sys-tem, according to reports from Sevierville, that re-ceivers were falling short of expectations. Run the route right. Catch the ball! Block somebody.

No way will the coach give up hope. Tennessee’s football future is based on being able to throw and

catch and run. Mike DeBord is supposed to help make it happen. Linemen are ex-pected to contribute.

On the April morning of the Orange and White game, there was a tent revival of Wide Receiver U talk in the parking lot of Calhoun’s on the River. Under the tent, signing autographs and posing for pictures, were old Vols you should remem-ber – Willie Gault, Anthony Hancock, Joey Kent, Tim McGee, Anthony Miller, Marcus Nash, Peerless Price and Larry Seivers.

Later in the day, at Ney-land Stadium, others tried to restore relevance to the name Wide Receiver U. To what degree they succeeded is a matter of opinion.

Marquez North, Josh

Malone, Josh Smith and incoming fi ve-star Preston Williams, when/if he gets well, should be primary weapons. They have the most potential. Jason Croom and Johnathon Johnson can make a signifi cant differ-ence. Von Pearson will be a factor if he makes it back from purgatory.

Interesting that slot re-ceiver Pig Howard was most productive last season. Pro scouts are beginning to think the little guy might play in the big league.

North’s highlight as a Vol was that unbelievable left-handed snag and clutch against his helmet in the 2013 South Carolina game. It led to the winning fi eld goal.

Malone hasn’t had a

highlight. He had several in high school as No. 5 re-ceiver prospect in the coun-try – 31 senior touchdowns scored four different ways. His Tennessee freshman numbers were 23 receptions for 231 yards and one touch-down. In the last six games, he caught four passes for 22 yards.

So far, none of the cur-rent Vols has rivaled his-toric greats.

Tennessee got a late start in air ball. There was little of that foolishness in single-wing times. After Doug Dickey created quar-terbacks (Dewey Warren comes to mind), Volunteers started building receiving credibility. Johnny Mills and Richmond Flowers caught several passes. Seiv-ers became a two-time All-American.

As I recall, serious talk about Wide Receiver U be-

gan soon after Kippy Brownjoined John Majors’ staff in1982. He helped recruit andrefi ne Miller, McGee, AlvinHarper and Carl Pickens.

The thought matured assix Tennessee receivers be-came NFL fi rst-round picks.The Peyton Manning era re-inforced the claim and putKent and Nash in the schoolrecord book. Price madeit big in the 1998 nationalchampionship game.

Robert Meachem, Ced-rick Wilson, Donte’ Stall-worth, Jermaine Cope-land, Jayson Swain, CraigFaulkner, Bret Smith, CoryFleming – there were sev-eral with similar pedigrees.Justin Hunter and Cordar-relle Patterson fi t the form.

Alas and alas, that wasthen. Now is no more thanpromising. Maybe. Perhaps.Could be.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.co m.

Bob Whetsel will soon retire as the city’s redevel-opment director, and he doesn’t mind stepping down before current projects are completed. Before one wraps up, another starts, he explains.

Bob Whetsel hits the road

“The city is an ongoing project.”

He’s witnessed the be-ginning − and end − of many projects since be-coming redevelopment di-rector in 2008. He had no way of knowing the growth he’d witness when he came to Knoxville in 1974 to teach and coach football at Bearden High School. (Among his players was Tim Burchett, who still calls him “Coach.”)

Bob and his wife, Me-lynda, bought a restored Victorian on Luttrell Street in 1980. They bought other homes in the neighborhood as investment property, and in 1986, he retired from teaching to sell real estate. He eventually met Vic-tor Ashe, who announced his fi rst mayoral campaign from the Whetsels’ front porch.

In 1993, Whetsel was hired as service director for the city, and he stayed in the position for 15 years until Bill Haslam, during his second term as mayor, asked him to come upstairs to work with him on rede-velopment.

Under Haslam, Whet-sel’s work was focused on downtown. When Madeline Rogero took the mayoral helm, his focus shifted to the South Waterfront.

He’s seen many changes since he began working with the city. He helped draft the city’s fi rst snow plan and helped plant 1,000 trees during the Ashe adminis-tration. The city has grown in square miles and seen the addition of numerous parks

and greenways.He had a front-row seat

to the ex-plosion ofdowntown.The citydoesn’t haveto recruitbusiness tothe area, hesays.

“ B u s i -nesses come

to us because the downtowneconomy is so strong.”

He can’t point to onething that he’s proudest of,except keeping his job for 23years. Throughout his timewith the city, he’s had peo-ple around him who helpedhim accomplish his goals,he says.

“I’m proud that Knoxvillehas been a very profession-ally run city.”

His years of experienceallow him to take the longview of redevelopment likethe Cumberland Avenueproject. The public is fi nd-ing its way around the con-struction, he says, but it’sbeen a strain on small busi-nesses. Phase I will be com-pleted by the end of the year,shifting construction fromwest of 22nd Street to eastof 22nd to 16th Street forPhase II, he says optimisti-cally.

He’s confi dent that he’sleaving the department incompetent hands. DawnMichelle Foster, the currentdeputy director, will moveinto his position, and AnneWallace, now a project man-ager, will become the newdeputy director.

Whetsel plans to kickoff his retirement by bik-ing across the country. InSeptember, he’ll travel withDan Duncan to San Diegoto begin a nine-week trekto St. Augustine, Fla., withAdventure Cycling Associa-tion.

Early next year, he andMelynda, a retired artteacher, plan a cruise. Asidefrom travel, he doesn’t haveplans, other than manag-ing his rental homes in theFourth & Gill area. He defi -nitely won’t return to realestate. “I’ll never put myname and number on a signagain.”

Whetsel

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Farragut voters should

pay attention. Early voting

starts this week and the GOP

primary is Aug. 12.

■ Karen Carson or Jason Zach-

ary will replace Ryan Haynes

in the state House. If history

is an indicator, the winner will

be there for some time.

■ Insure Tennessee is Gov. Bill

Haslam’s plan to make health

insurance available to some

250,000 working people

without insurance. Carson

says “yes,” while Zachary says

“no.”

■ Richard Briggs is for Carson.

Zachary mentions Glen

Casada, Frank Niceley and

Roger Kane as his allies.

■ The University of Tennes-see is crucial to Knoxville’s

economy. Yet Zachary says

the UT board “stiff -armed”

citizens by not holding public

hearings on the women’s

athletics name change.

■ Both were on WBIR-TV and

WATE-TV on Sunday. Both

are against a gasoline tax

increase; both favor high

standards for schools.

SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • JULY 22, 2015 • 5 government

THROUGH AUG. 9Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit, the Oak

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

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22Mindfulness 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.

Tennessee Shines: Bombadil and poet Marianne Worthington, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/tick-ets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 22-23AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m.,

O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, JULY 23“Kale in December and Carrots in January ...

no problem!” 6-7 p.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane

Drive. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public. Info: 966-6728.

Knoxville Fire Department visit, 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 23-26“An Evening of Laughter,” Tellico Community

Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Tick-ets: $20. Info: www.tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 24Movie & Popcorn: “Beasts of the Southern

Wild,” 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

SATURDAY, JULY 25Beginning Genealogy, 1-4 p.m., East Tennessee

History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 215-8809.

“Kale in December and Carrots in January ... no problem!” 10:30 a.m.-noon, Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Free and open to the pub-

lic. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Info: 215-2340.

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.

Open auditions for new members to Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble, 2 p.m., Dancers Studio, 4216 Sutherland Ave. Any Tennessee resident between 8-14 years old is eligible. Prepare one-minute dance composition without music demonstrating modern dance and ballet technique. Info: 584-9636.

Performance, Presence and Poise with the Al-exander Technique, 11:45 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 313 N. For-est Park Blvd. Cost: $85. Preregistration with confi rma-tion required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Rea-gen, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

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

SUNDAY, JULY 26Franklin Monthly Old Harp Singing, 3 p.m.,

Greeneville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 210 N. Main St., Greeneville. Free, all invited and tune books provided. Info: Jeff Farr, 423 639-8211.

Sandra Clark

In a phone interview last week, Superintendent Jim McIntyre confi rmed that performance-based pay in-centives will not be offered to teachers in the upcoming school year. The only excep-tion is for teachers and ad-ministrators in Teacher Ad-vancement Program (TAP) schools.

McIntyre confi rms:Performance pay not an option

McIntyre said Rodney Russell, director of human capital strategy, is chairing a group of teachers to re-work the old APEX bonus formula that was funded primarily through grants

such as Race to the Top. The bonuses earned in the 2014-15 school year will be paid in November or December, he said, from a $3 million, one-time grant proposed by Mayor Tim Burchett from the county’s fund balance.

The superintendent hopes to have Russell’s plan fully vetted by teachers and the school board prior to implementation midway in the 2016-17 school year. He has put the whole matter on the school board’s Aug. 5 agenda for discussion.

Knox County is in com-pliance with state mandates for differentiated pay, Mc-Intyre said, because of in-centives for TAP schools, instructional coaches, lead teachers and retention/re-cruitment bonuses for hard-to-staff schools.

He said APEX bonuses

were consistently earned in one school year and paid in the next budget year. “In the early years, this was not an issue because (the bo-nuses) were largely funded by grants. Only recently has it become more of a chal-lenge.”

I believe McIntyre con-fi rmed my analysis piece from last week despite some

of his staff saying the con-clusions were incorrect.

To push the envelope, what’s next?

Knox County Schools is broke, with fi nancial obliga-tions outpacing funding.

There’s a chance the dis-trict’s reserve fund will dip below the state-required 3 percent this year. (Ah, for the good old days when

Knox County High Schools:

■ Austin East (3)

■ Bearden 2

■ Carter (2)

■ Central 1

■ CTE Magnet 2

■ Farragut (3)

■ Fulton (1)

■ Gibbs (1/2)

■ Halls (1)

■ Hardin Valley 1

■ Karns (3)

■ L&N STEM Academy (1/2)

■ Powell (1)

■ South-Doyle 2

■ West 0

■ Net Loss (7)

County Commission was demanding then-Super-intendent Allen Morgan spend down his “excessive fund balance” before asking for increased funding.)

The just-signed Memo-randum of Understanding gives the county’s fi nance director, Chris Caldwell, unprecedented authority to dabble in school fi nance and make recommendations.

None of this is good news for teachers or kids. It portends further cuts to established school pro-grams, such as the horticul-ture program at Halls High School, which was eliminat-ed last year. Look for CTE/vocational programs to be hit hardest with academic electives close behind.

Expect class sizes to grow and increased pressure on experienced (and high-est paid) teachers to retire. These challenges require thoughtful analysis and a

spirit of cooperation and trust that’s been lacking.

Let’s start with Rodney Russell, a good guy who works hard. Let’s reconnect him with kids, perhaps in a classroom. With a director of human resources (Kathy Sims) and several assis-tants, do we really need a director of human capital strategy?

Businesses and families are doing more with less, while Knox County Schools does less with more. Let’s lose the evaluation rubric, the strategic compensation matrix and the committee that’s reformatting incen-tive pay. APEX is gone, and it’s not coming back.

Our priority should be teacher pay that’s competi-tive with surrounding coun-ties. Let’s launch the new year with teachers and kids excited about returning to school, not feeling over-whelming dread.

Teaching positions gained or lost for 2015-16

cause he has made a name of his own. The City Coun-cil member-at-large, born in 1958, was named after his grandmother, Georgia – “Like the state,” he said. “Over the years, I’ve had a lot of fun with this name.”

Wallace is the chief op-erating offi cer of Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, an 80-year-old real estate fi rm founded by his father and grandfather. His broth-er, Jim, is the chief fi nan-cial offi cer. The company’s enduring success has made it a pillar of Knoxville’s business community and gave Wallace a head start on his fi rst run for offi ce. This year, he’s running for re-election unopposed and enjoys broader support than before.

Among his new sup-porters is former council member Carlene Malone, a longtime neighborhood ad-vocate who has never been a

favorite of the pro-business sector. Malone surprised a lot of people in April when she publicly praised Wal-lace’s work during a pivotal, called City Council meeting devoted to dissecting the work product of the sign task force, which labored for three years. Wallace co-chaired the task force, and Malone said his thoughtful, measured approach won her over. He still sounds amazed by her endorsement.

“She said it publicly. She is very knowledgeable, and I have learned a lot from her – and oh, my gosh, I’ve never had any woman stand up and proclaim her love for me, publicly.”

Wallace, who has a de-gree in ornamental hor-ticulture and landscape design from UT, said his views on signage regulation evolved during his time on the task force.

“I’m a business owner,

and I have a lot of signs. It was a tough call, but I really care about the way things

look. Aes-thetics are a big part of economic d e v e l o p -ment, and businesses are at-tracted to places that look good.

It’s a complex issue and the more I looked at it, the more I looked at other cities, the more people I talked to, the more I concluded that we can make an improvement. That feeling just kind of grew. In the end, I think we can make a difference, and over time I think lower signs will improve the appear-ance of Knoxville.”

The amended sign regu-lations, which will reduce the height of on-premise signs, were approved 6-3

Rethinking George Wallace

Betty Bean

Wallace

He has considered his name both a curse and a blessing and became acute-ly aware of this dichotomy when he decided to run for political offi ce nearly fi ve years ago.

“I was on the radio with Ed Brantley and Bob Thom-as when Ed, who’s got these bushy eyebrows, leaned in and said my name with a certain amount of disdain:

“George Wallace?”“I said, ‘Well, Ed, not

THAT George Wallace.’ ”Nowadays, George C.

Wallace (he even shares a middle initial with the late 45th governor of Alabama) doesn’t run into that kind of reaction nearly as often be-

on fi rst reading and were to go before City Council for a second reading vote this week.

Pension reform is anoth-er thorny issue City Council has dealt with during Wal-lace’s fi rst term, and, again, he said his opinion evolved.

“We wrestled with the idea of pulling out the fi re and police (who receive enhanced benefi ts) depart-ments, but I began to ap-preciate the value of that for retention of employees, and in the end, we came up with a hybrid plan. I never could quite get comfortable with the notion of making it a 401(k), and I helped author a little bit of the hybrid plan. It’s not so rich but gives them some kind of benefi ts program, and we raised the vesting period from fi ve to 10 years. I think it was fair; I hope it was.”

Wallace’s name is begin-ning to be mentioned among the possible contenders to succeed Mayor Madeline Rogero when she leaves of-

fi ce in four years. He has clearly developed the art of dodging questions about his aspirations.

“I’m fl attered when peo-ple say that, but I have a business I’m very entwined with, and it would take some untwining and some unraveling for me to run. I don’t know how that would play out, but I’ll say this:

“We have a great city, and we have a lot of people to thank for that. We are standing on the shoulders of those who went before us.”

And what about that sig-nature bow tie?

“At fi rst, the reaction to my wearing it was absolute-ly comical. I remember Vic-tor Ashe telling me, ‘You’d better lose that bow tie. You’ll never win with that bow tie.’ I said, ‘I like it that it bothers you.’ ”

Wallace and his wife, Stephanie, a retired school-teacher, live in West Knox-ville. Their son, Nick, is a public defender in Mont-gomery, Ala.

The recent release of city candidates’ fi nancial disclo-sures was not particularly striking except for the Mark Campen-Jennifer Mirtes contest, where she raised more than he did by $1,000. But they raised less than $3,000 between the two of them.

For an incumbent council member (Campen) to have raised only $350 in June shows Campen is either su-premely confi dent of re-election or he does not think his opponent is a threat. Last time, Campen was unopposed. He simply has never run a contested race. He is the quietest member of council and a reliable vote for Mayor Rogero.

VictorAshe

Mirtes outraises incumbent Campen

Mirtes has a clear op-portunity to win an elec-tion that will not exceed 5,000 voters in November if Campen continues to be in-visible. Campen is a likable, serious incumbent who has a campaign style that is modest and under the radar.

Campen failed to attend his colleagues’ receptions over the past two months; they would have been a good place to meet people. He has

not held any event to bring his supporters together. His opponent could beat him if she wages an active cam-paign on real issues.

On the other hand, Campen might wage a more public campaign. Right now he does not have the funds to do a single mailing.

Three other incumbents running are Finbarr Saun-ders, Marshall Stair and George Wallace. Wallace is unopposed, and Stair’s op-ponent, Pete Drew, is not considered credible. Saun-ders’ major opponent will be Paul Bonovich, but it is unclear how serious this Se-quoyah Hills resident will become.

■ Mayor Rogero is sit-

ting on $76,718, which she can spend for most any-thing except personal use. Often this is used for travel and dinners plus donations to other campaigns. Since she cannot seek a third term, she may hold on to it for some other offi ce she might seek in the future or have a fund available to do political work when she re-tires. She can also use it for her favored candidates in the upcoming council con-tests.

■ Cindy Mitchell’s fi -nal City Council meeting as city recorder was last night, July 21. She became an in-stitution and was widely ad-mired. She will be missed. Her successor is William

Johnson, 31, who starts at the same age Mitchell did over 34 years ago. He will start out at $52,000 a year, which is $24,000 less than Mitchell was making when she retired.

■ Knoxville lost a committed civic activist with the passing of Anne Woodle last week. She served on the school board and openly advocated her causes without worrying about the political fallout.

■ Dawn Michelle Fos-ter, the new director of re-development for the city starting Aug. 31, will see her salary jump $15,000 to $115,000 a year plus a car allowance of $5,830 a year. Anne Wallace, who becomes the new deputy to Foster, will see her salary jump another $10,000 to

$85,000 a year.When announcing pro-

motions and/or new hires, the Rogero team routinely does not mention the sal-ary. This writer will bring that information to you as city residents are footing the bill. The recent promo-tion of Chris Howley in city engineering did not include his new salary. One ex-pects some pay hike for a promotion, and the public has a right to know.

■ Debate: The WestKnox Republican Club will host a debate in Farragut between Karen Carson and Jason Zachary on Thursday, Aug. 6, prior to the Aug. 12 GOP primary, according to Alexander Waters, club president. Time and loca-tion have not been deter-mined.

6 • JULY 22, 2015 • Shopper news interns

‘All the pancakes!’Kern’s Bakery inspires interns

By Emma DaleAt fi rst glance, the old

Kern’s Bakery is a mess. Erected in 1931, it is 90,000 square feet on 14 acres of land. The bakery can no longer serve its original purpose. But where most developers would see a great place to put a new Walmart, David Dewhirst sees exposed brick, oak fl oorboards, and a chance to make Knoxville unique.

He calls what he and his colleagues do “historic de-veloping.” His group spe-cializes in buildings built long ago. They know how to fi nd the unique elements underneath all of the ter-rible 1980s offi ce space put over them.

Although Dewhirst ad-mits that a Walmart will probably make more money than anything he would put here, he hopes that young people today will be more interested in buildings with authenticity and “soul.”

“I mean, when you walk into Applebee’s, you never say, ‘Wow! That’s differ-ent!’” Dewhirst said.

And Kern’s certainly is different. The bakery is full of peeling pastel jade walls, almost colonial-looking in-door walls and windows, and a particularly eye-catching set of robin’s-egg-

blue stairs. And that’s just the front offi ce.

The actual factory fl oor, now devoid of all of the hamburger buns Dewhirst says they used to make here, is sitting in semi-darkness. It looks like something out of a steampunk picture, full of tangled contrap-tions criss-crossing the ceiling and fl oor. Surpris-ingly, about 80 percent of the original machinery has been cleared out. He point-ed out the real brick fl oor and the behemoth oven that another bakery is coming to dismantle and use for an-other 100 years.

“Things were built to last back then,” said Dewhirst.

Dewhirst plans to capi-talize on the nearby Urban Wilderness, a 1,000-acre forest along downtown’s south waterfront — some-thing he’s fi ercely proud of and says that one day all Knoxvillians will be as well. A stacked-stone, 1800’s-style tunnel on the Kern’s property leads right into the Urban Wilderness. Around 10-11 privately owned and symbiotic businesses will use different parts of the factory for things ranging from bike rentals to brew-ing beer; there may even be a climbing wall. Dewhirst estimates that the bakery

will cost around $10 million to renovate.

Still, the most amazing thing about the old bakery isn’t what Dewhirst is prob-ably going to turn it into. It’s the way the imaginations of the young people he believes so strongly in run wild at every twist and turn of an abandoned factory.

For the interns as we toured the bakery, a Quonset hut became a wedding cha-pel, a truck loading dock be-came an amphitheater, the offi ce above the main fl oor was suddenly a branchless, industrial treehouse. Some of us even clamored for the giant, dusty old hamburger bun pans he showed us. He handed them out, to be used for varying purposes in high-schoolers’ and middle-schoolers’ homes.

“Now I can make all the pancakes!” one of the in-terns, Zoe Brookshire-Ri-ley, exclaimed with glee.

All of this excitement, and the impromptu game of soccer started with a ball found on the factory fl oor, proves right what Dewhirst shared with us at the begin-ning of the tour, “We hope that young people will want to go to a place that looks real and authentic, and not like the strip mall down the road … a place with soul.”

By Charlie HamiltonYou know when you go

into newer department stores and they all look about the same? In every town and city today in the U.S. you al-ways see a Walmart, Lowes and many other stores and restaurants.

Well, do see anything dif-ferent about these buildings? Do they have any unique characteristics, or any sto-ries that they can tell?

Many older buildings are thought to be useless, non-effi cient, and way out of style for any newer devel-opment. People tear down older buildings so they can build strip malls and big box stores. The Emporium in downtown Knoxville was built in the 1880s and has

been restored for new pur-poses. The old White Lily fl our plant has been restored for new purposes, too.

Now, David Dewhirst, and his team are bring an-other building back to life. The old Kern’s Bakery is off Chapman Highway right after you cross the Henley Street bridge. The bakery was built in 1931. Dewhirst plans to do some renova-tions and repurpose its unique architecture.

The building has a lot of personality and is located next to Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness.

You don’t see many older buildings today, and many of them are fading away ev-ery day. It is our job to help preserve the past for future.

Preserving the past

Intern Laken Scott enjoys a ride on a dolly, thanks to David Dewhirst. Photo by R. White

Maddie Murphy, Emma Dale, Betty Mengesha and Zoe Brookshire-Risley ride around the old

Kerns Bakery building on a dolly. Photo by R. White

By Maggie WilliamsLast Tuesday, the in-

terns went to UT’s Ar-cheological Research Lab. We got to clean some ar-tifacts from South Caro-lina, found by Ph.D. can-didate Kendy Altizer.

To clean the artifacts, all you need is some wa-ter and a toothbrush. There were all sorts of

objects, such as animal bones, pottery pieces, buttons and even an in-tact glass bottle. I found two pieces of pottery that fi t together!

We all learned a lot about what you can fi nd in the ground. You can volunteer there to clean artifacts. It was very en-lightening and enjoyable.

Matching the pieces

A shot of the railroad tracks

outside the University of Ten-

nessee archeological center

on Middlebrook Pike. Photo by Maddie Murphy

By Shannon CareyRain foiled our plans

to take Shopper-News in-terns into the fi eld to work on an archeological dig site with experts from the UT Archeology Research Lab. We were going to see how ground-penetrating radar works and join Knox Coun-ty Mayor Tim Burchett on a metal-detecting adventure.

Instead, we went back to the lab. As rain drummed on the roof, interns learned about the excavation of the Confederate line at Morgan Hill, now the site of UT’s So-rority Village. Mike Angst told interns that written records like journals and letters were important to in-terpreting the fi nds at Mor-gan Hill.

Burchett joined interns for the presentation and spoke about his hobby.

“No pun intended, but I really dig all this,” joked Burchett.

Interns glimpse history

‘Cheaper than a psychiatrist’By Charlie Hamilton

One interesting fact that you would might not know about Knox County Mayor Tm Burchett is that he metal detects as a hobby. Burchett met us at our visit at the UT. Archeological Research Lab, and explained a little about this hobby. He told us a story about a man he encountered one day while he was metal detecting at Lakeshore Park.

He was just walking around as usual, and a man in a white coat walked up to him, asked him if he was Mayor Burchett, and said “What are you doing?”

Burchett replied that he was metal detecting, and that this was “a cheaper hobby than going to a physiatrist.”

The person in the coat replied, “You are right; I am a physiatrist, and it is cheaper.”

He also told us about some of his fi nds, too. He said he was digging one day and hit something hard, and he thought it was just an old paint can. He pulled it up, and it was rounded. Turns out it a breast plate from the Civil War. Burchett also explained that he was in a metal detecting club, and told us about some of the fi nds they have presented to

By Maddie OgleWould you believe that historical artifacts have been

found in Knoxville, Tenn.? Archeologists from UT’s Ar-cheological Research Lab have found cannonballs, bul-lets and armor, from the battle of Knoxville near Kingston Pike. They also know, from different shades of clay dirt, where or what something might’ve been.

This is a job that takes patience and time, because if you rush and break an artifact, it could be very challenging to fi nd all the pieces. But once they come back to the lab, they scrub and wash each dirt-covered artifact until it’s clean. Then, it could take a very long time to track down all the missing pieces. And when it’s done, we have discovered a piece of history!

Archeology takes patience

Searching for treasuresBy Betty Mengesha

The UT Archeology Re-search Lab welcomed the Shopper-News interns to learn a bit about the cultur-al and environmental his-tory of Knoxville. We were able to meet Kandi Hollen-back and Mike Angst who work together to discover all that Knoxville has to of-fer. It was surprising to see just how much history could be dug up in our backyards.

Many parts of Knoxville have been explored in order to learn about the city’s his-tory during the American Civil War. Angst explained that they have found rifl e trenches, gun emplace-ments, drainage ditches, and fi replaces that were left behind during the war. UT has been able to research and use what they have

found in the fi eld to learn more about the events that took place in our very own Knoxville.

The archeologists search for several artifacts aging from 100 to 1,000 years old. They also work to preserve the archeological sites for future generations, so they too can learn about the past. Whether it’s blazing hot or pouring rain, they are out in the fi eld.

It is always wonderful to hear a person speak so pas-sionately about their job and all that comes with it. Even Mayor Tim Burchett was lucky enough to hear about the department’s discover-ies and the history that is involved. The mayor also shares a passion for history and is looking for his own treasures, too!

Kandi Hollenbech looks over a map with Mayor Tim Burchett and

the mayor’s communications manager Michael Grider. Photo by R. White

Charlie Hamilton and Maddie Murphy examine a button that

was recovered from a site in Charleston, S. C. Photo by R. White

Then, Angst, Kandi Hol-lenbach and Kendy Altizer took interns upstairs to help clean artifacts Altizer brought back from a dig in

Charleston.“This is a big help,” said

Altizer. “This saves me at least two days of work.”

Volunteers can join in the

artifact cleaning and take in a brown bag lecture every third Friday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 1-4 p.m. Info: 974-9647 or keh@utk.edu

the club.You never know what

interesting hobbies people might have.

■ Fun at the labWhen you think of arche-

ology what comes in mind? Do you think about a per-son in Egypt searching for mummies, and artifacts?

That is one part of arche-ology, but do you know that you might have artifacts right here in your backyard? We had the honor of taking a tour throughout the Uni-versity of Tennessee’s Ar-cheological Research Lab. We met Mike Angst, Senior Archeologist and Kandi Hollenbach. They showed us some of their discoveries on the expedition at Morgan

Hill next to UT campus.The artifacts and evidence

of a Confederate basecamp from the Civil War were re-markable. On our tour we

also got to wash some arti-facts from a recent dig site inSouth Carolina. Thank you,UT archeology team, for ourvisit at the archeology lab.

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Alive After Five: R.J. Mischo with Devan Jones & The Uptown Stomp, 6-8:30 p.m., Knox-ville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Midnight Voyage Live: Spoofed Up, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http://internationalknox.com.

Summer Movie Magic: “Mary Poppins,” 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: all Ticketmaster outlets, Tennessee Theatre box offi ce and 800-745-3000.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY“Bambi: 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. Sunday. Info/tickets: 208-3677 or www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

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SUNDAYAnjelah Johnson Presents Bon Qui Qui, 8

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By Betsy PickleThere are plenty of peo-

ple in this world who love boxing, but even those who don’t (present company in-cluded) usually fall for a good boxing movie. Fingers crossed, that’s the case with “Southpaw,” opening Friday in local theaters.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a light heavyweight boxer who makes it to the top, only to have everything tragi-cally taken away. He fi nds his salvation in a rundown gym where a retired fi ght-er turned trainer (Forest Whitaker) gives him hope that he can climb back up and regain the trust of those he loves.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”),

the R-rated action drama also stars Rachel McAdams, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Naomie Harris and Victor Ortiz.

The way-back machine fi res up for “Pixels,” a pae-an to the 1980s heyday of videogame arcades. In this PG-13 action comedy, aliens mistake video feeds of clas-sic arcade games as a decla-ration of war, and they at-tack Earth.

Four friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Pe-ter Dinklage, Josh Gad) who spent their boyhoods saving the world one quar-ter at a time at the arcades fi nd themselves doing it for real as the aliens base their warfare on arcade-game strategies. (Here’s hoping

By Carol ShaneOne of Knoxville’s most

creative, innovative, ful-fi lling arts organizations is very busy right now, en-thralling audiences with its current production.

Through the end of this month, the Knoxville Children’s Theatre pres-ents “Bambi: A Life in the Woods.” By all accounts, it’s a roaring success and a very special experience.

As East Tennessee’s lead-ing producer of stage plays for children, KCT counts “Bambi” as its 69th produc-tion. The company is also the area’s leading producer of new works, having produced 27 original plays since 2008.

“KCT’s plays are always based closely on a great work of literature,” says ex-ecutive director Zack Allen, “and our ‘Bambi’ is a faithful adaptation of Felix Salten’s classic children’s book. The play was written by well-known stage actor and play-wright James DeVita, whose plays have been performed all over the country.”

About the similarities be-tween this play and the 1942 Disney movie, Allen says, “The Disney fi lm contained many of the elements of the book but also took many lib-erties. But both feature the maturation of a young deer into a stag. He makes many friends, including a friend-ly rabbit, and faces many dangers, mostly posed by humans. There are funny parts, thrilling parts, sad parts and all the emotions that come from living a ‘life in the woods.’ ”

The play features 13 ac-tors age 9 to 16.

Zak Terry as Bambi and Elijah Payne as Ronno confer in the

Knoxville Children’s Theatre’s current production of “Bambi: A

Life in the Woods.” Photo by Janice O. Branson

After champion boxer Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his longtime manager, Jor-

dan Mains (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), part ways, Billy hits rock bottom in “Southpaw.”

By Carol Shanenearo hanyyyyyBy CCCCCCaaaByBy C ololol SOne of Knoxville’s moste’no le mooof K

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Zak Terry, an eighth-grad-er at Bearden Middle School, plays Bambi. Formerly seen as the White Rabbit in “Al-ice’s Rumpus in Wonder-land,” Zak counts “Bambi” as his sixth KCT appearance. He is the son of Stacy Stewart and Scott Terry.

Ryan Cross plays the Great Prince. He attends ninth grade at Christian Academy of Knoxville, and this is his seventh performance at KCT.

Ryan is the son of Jennifer and Douglas Cross.

Ani Wederitch plays Fa-line, Bambi’s friend. She is a sixth-grader at Bearden Middle School. This is her third show at KCT, having most recently been seen in “Harriet the Spy.” Ani is the daughter of Jill Werderitch.

Other KCT veterans in this outstanding ensemble cast are Jake Green, a junior at West High and the son of

Gyllenhaal, Sandler lead new fl icks

Jill and Craig Green; Ma-ria Kauffman, daughter of Sarah and Chris Kauffman and a seventh-grader at West Valley Middle School; L&N STEM Academy ninth-grader Lisette Paul-tre, daughter of Hope and Jimmy Paultre; seventh-grader Elijah Boyd Payne and 10th-grader Kathryn Payne, the son and daughter of Kathy and Sean Payne; Ethan J. Reed, the son of Kerry Reed and a versatile eighth-grader who acts and stage manages; Ava Brad-shaw, daughter of Cara and Mike Bradshaw and a fi fth-grader at Bluegrass Elemen-tary; and Caroline Dyer, a junior at South-Doyle High School, KCT veteran since 2009, and the daughter of Amie and Scott Dyer.

Making their KCT de-buts are Izzy Fenech, a fi fth-grader at Northshore Elementary School and the daughter of Tiffany and Ja-son Fenech, and seventh-grader Abigrace Kimsey, the daughter of Bethany and Troy Kimsey.

The Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents “Bambi: A Life in the Woods” at 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, July 23-24; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday, July 25; and 3 p.m. Sunday, July 26. All performances take place at 109 E. Church-well Ave. in Knoxville. Tick-ets are $12 per person; an adult and child entering to-gether may be admitted for $20 total. Reservations are strongly recommended. For more info, visit http://knox villechildrenstheatre.com or call 208-3677.Send story suggestions to news@

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the fi lm solves the mystery of how Gad, a good 15 years younger than the others in real life, supposedly spent his childhood with the other three.)

Michelle Monaghan, Sean Bean, Brian Cox, Jane

Krakowski, Dan Aykroyd, Lainie Kazan and Tom Mc-Carthy also star for director Chris Columbus.

Another novel by John Green (“The Fault in Our Stars”) comes to the big screen with “Paper Towns.”

Teen Quentin (Nat Wolff) is left with a mystery when his friend and neighbor Margo (Cara Delevinge) dis-appears after taking him on an all-night adventure. With the help of friends, Quentin follows cryptic clues to track

down Margo and solve some of life’s bigger mysteries.

The cast includes Austin Abrams, Justice Smith and Cara Buono. Jake Schreier (“Robot & Frank”) directed.

Downtown West is open-ing “Cartel Land,” a big win-ner in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary competition. Director Mat-thew Heineman embedded himself in the action as two vigilante groups (one U.S., one Mexican) squared off against Mexican drug car-tels to do what governments have failed to do.

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