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Dailey seeks commission seat

Carson Dailey has been in-volved in com-munity issues for decades, and a South Knox advo-cate for longer than that, so it should surprise no one that he’s preparing to

run for County Commission next year.

The timing is good since he will be stepping down from his seat on the county Board of Zoning Appeals, where he has served since 2009 when County Commission was hit with a court order that forced them to stop appointing themselves to the board, and to make it citizens-only.

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See movies in a whole new way

Nowadays, you never have to leave your house to see a movie.

That’s what Paul Harrill and Darren Hughes are afraid of. More and more, fi lm watchers are giving up on movie the-aters – which don’t offer much variety anyway – and staying home to view either streaming movies or ones on DVD.

They miss out on both the communal aspect of movie-go-ing and, for the most part, the opportunity to see something different.

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By Betty BeanLast week, the Northside

Church of Christ in Heiskell, fac-ing a Metropolitan Planning Com-mission staff recommendation to deny its request to rezone its prop-erty from low density residential to commercial, removed the prop-osition from MPC’s August agenda just hours before the meeting.

In deep West Knoxville, neigh-bors who oppose First Baptist Concord’s request to rezone 26.4 acres at 9635 Westland Drive from public institutional/planned resi-dential to commercial are hun-kered down until October, await-ing the results of a traffi c study conducted while schools are in session that will consider the ef-fects a shopping center could have on the neighborhood.

Meanwhile, North Knoxville neighborhoods are organizing to fi ght a chain of events triggered by Centerpointe Church’s decision to sell out to a developer who also proposes to buy the iconic How-

ard house next door and build a “neighborhood” Walmart on its North Broadway location. A 24-hour payday loan company is al-ready under construction on the south end of the formerly church-owned parcel and a popular inde-pendent Apple computer shop that has been there for 37 years will be displaced. Even though there is considerable commercial activity here, the developer will need to get the property rezoned to accommo-date the new use.

In Inskip, the new owner of a former church building long aban-doned by its Presbyterian congrega-tion and surrounded by single-fam-ily homes was successful in getting the parcel rezoned from low density residential to offi ce over the pro-tests of its nearest neighbors.

Churches enjoy a special sta-tus under city and county zoning ordinances. The city allows them to move into residential neighbor-hoods, subject to use on review re-quirements. County zoning regu-

lations are similar for residential neighborhoods and allow them as a permitted use in agricultural zones (use on review is required in city Ag zones).

But problems between churches and neighborhoods are becoming more common as churches decide to relocate, expand or disband and attempt to maximize their profi ts on the real estate market.

Former City Council member Carlene Malone says it’s time to reconsider churches’ legal status.

“We’re not looking at churches as perhaps they really are today. We need to realize that this is not the little neighorhood church that’s going to stick around forever. It’s a business model. Land is held like a portfolio, and when the time comes to sell, even though they bought it at residential or agricultural pric-es, they want to sell it commercial – at commercial prices.”

Malone said that modern mega churches are a far cry from the traditional concept of churches

Church and state and zoningthat are active on Sundays and Wednesday nights.

“These are not small uses – not to say they are bad things – but their impact is greater than the old neigh-borhood churches. The other thing is, what happens when they leave? Do we continue to allow them as use on review in residential neighbor-hoods because we think they have low impacts, when actually they may well be seeking to expand – and if they don’t expand, they may well move? Or is it time we start looking at them as the business model they actually operate under rather than looking at them as enhancements to neighborhoods?”

The First Baptist Concord re-zoning battle is likely to be epic. The property in question – at 9635 Westland Drive, 5.7 miles from the church’s Kingston Pike address – has a long history of zoning fi ghts, dating back to 1988 when neigh-bors opposed to placing a Pellis-

By Betsy PicklePeople know about football’s

blitz defense, and of course the 1975 pop hit “The Ballroom Blitz.” But a bioblitz is a relatively new thing, and it’s happening this Saturday at High Ground Park in South Knoxville.

It’s a project run by Discover Life in America, a nonprofi t that has been documenting life in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park since 1998.

“What we do is we document every living thing in an area, and that goes into a database,” says Todd Witcher, executive director of Gatlinburg-based Discover Life in America. “For example, with the Smokies, they have a database of all the things that we’ve docu-mented – the life history, the as-sociations, where they’re found in the park – and, of course, many of those things turned out to be un-usual or rare.

“In the Smokies we’ve found 951 new species to science and almost 8,000 new species for the park.

“The main project we’re work-ing on is the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. It’s the brainchild of a world-famous ecologist named Dan Janzen. The idea behind it is conservation. You can’t really pro-tect an area, even an area that’s al-ready protected, without knowing what’s in that area, what are the living things, all the living things.”

Scientists, students and volun-teers have spent years amassing information about the Smokies.

By Betsy Picklklee

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School Bucks program underwayBy Sandra Clark

It’s community relations direc-tor Emerson Breeden’s favorite promotion, and it’s put more than $16.5 million in school supplies and computers into 1,000 schools over its lifetime.

It’s Food City’s School Bucks program, which kicks off Aug. 23 and continues through April 30.

“We’re committed to giving back to the communities we oper-ate in, and we take the education of our youth very seriously,” said Steven C. Smith, Food City presi-dent and CEO.

Students get a barcoded school ID to provide to friends and fam-ily members. When scanned along with a Food City ValuCard during

the initial checkout process, the barcode alerts the system of the corresponding school to credit with the purchases from that point forward, making points col-lection quick and easy.

For every $10 in Food City ex-clusive brand purchases, the des-ignated school receives one point toward its School Bucks rewards.

Food City has pledged $600,000 for this school year. The amount awarded each school will be based upon the percentage of total purchases made by the cus-tomers assigned to that school.

Food City initiated its Apples for the Students program in 1990. Info: www.foodcity.com or Lisa Johnson at 1-800-232-0174 .

Sutton new at South-Doyle Middle

Walking through the hallway to his offi ce, newly appointed South-Doyle Middle School principal Taiwo “Tye” Sut-ton points to students fi lling their lockers

and says, “Do you see this right here? When they enter the school, they’re like the water that fi lls in all the gaps.”

He was appointed principal of SDMS in May.

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health & lifestyles

After going through a procedure at the Center

for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort

Sanders Regional, Ben Garibay is happy to be

back on the basketball court and continuing a

passion he’s had for nearly three decades.

Work hard, play hard. That’s the Ben Garibay way.

So when the 51-year-old Alcoa plant worker was faced with back surgery, he had a question for Dr. Joel Norman, neurosur-geon at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Region-al: How soon before he could get back to playing basketball?

For Garibay, Dr. Norman’s answer was a slam dunk.

“Dr. Norman said it was up to me and how well I did whether I could get back to playing again,” said Garibay, who was back on the basketball court at Springbrook Recreation Center within a week after surgery.

“I wasn’t running up and down the court, but I was walking and jogging up and down the court. The next week I began to pick up the pace a little bit, and every week I was go-ing more and more. I think it was the � rst of January when I played the � rst league game, and I played � ve minutes at a time. By the end of the season, around the last of February, I played the entire time in the last two games.”

It was quite an improvement from when Dr. Norman � rst diagnosed Garibay with spondylolisthesis, which is a slippage, or in-stability of the vertebrae.

“It is most commonly seen in elderly pa-tients as the joints between the vertebral bod-ies deteriorate and no longer maintain their integrity,” said Dr. Norman. “In Mr. Garibay’s case, he had a pars defect, which he probably had since he was a child, but didn’t cause him signi� cant problems until he developed com-pression of the nerves as a result of this slip-page. The instability of his lower spine led to compression of the nerves radiating down his leg and into his foot, causing a weakness of the muscles in his foot and ultimately leading to his abnormal gait.”

Garibay’s back problems began three de-cades ago when he was working on a cabin where all the � oor joists had rotted. “I was underneath the crawl space knocking out

Maryville man having a ballafter minimally invasive back surgery

the blocking to replace the joists,” Garibay recounted. “There was just one 2-by-2 brick left, and you wouldn’t think it would hold up anything, but when I hit it, the whole � oor fell in on me and threw me to the ground. If those joists hadn’t been so rotten, it probably would’ve killed me.”

It was the second time within a week Garibay had hurt his back while renovat-ing a log cabin. Just days earlier, he slipped from a 15- to 20-foot scaffold and tumbled down several steps into the home’s base-ment. “That’s when I � rst started having problems,” he said.

The back problems lingered, but without insurance, Garibay settled for occasional chi-ropractic adjustments until landing a job in 2001 as a furnace tender at the Alcoa alumi-num plant. He � nally had health insurance, but the physical demands of the work took a toll over the next dozen years. “Somebody I worked with noticed that my foot was turned sideways and I was dragging it,” he said. “I was bumping into everything and my shins would be bleeding but I couldn’t feel it.”

That’s when he turned to Dr. Norman, who � rst tried controlling the pain with steroid injections.

When that failed, there was only one thing left to do: fuse Garibay’s L5-S1 vertebrae. The minimally invasive surgery entailed placing screws into the L5 and S1 vertebral bodies, re-moving the diseased disc between them that was compressing his nerves, replacing that disc with a “spacer” or “cage” � lled with ma-terial to encourage bone growth and connect-ing the screws to a rod to stabilize his spine.

“This approach allows us to perform the same decompression and fusion as a classic ‘open’ surgery, through much smaller inci-sions,” Dr. Norman explained. “This generally leads to fewer intraoperative complications, and an earlier return to normal activity.”

An early return is just what Garibay want-ed. But his activity is anything but normal for most 51-year-olds.

“Dr. Norman set the standard, and said

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Dr. Joel Norman is a local native who returned to East Tennessee after medi-cal school and now cares for patients in the place he calls “home.” He recently talked about his journey from local boy to well-educated neurosurgeon, and the minimally invasive spine surgery that is changing the lives of his patients.

Tell us your story – where did you go to school, and how did you decide to become a neurosurgeon?I was born in Knox-ville, and raised in Seymour. After I graduated from Sey-mour High School, I went to college at MTSU in Murfrees-boro, then moved

to Johnson City to attend ETSU Quillen College of Medicine. I completed neuro-surgery residency in Lexington, Ky, at the University of Kentucky.

I’ve always had a keen interest in the sciences. I found neuroscience intriguing

and challenging. Once I found my way into the operating room, I knew I had found my calling. Combining my love of neurosci-ence with my love of the operating room, neurosurgery was a natural extension.

What do you like about this area? In other words, why are you still here, instead of in a larger city?

East Tennessee is my home. I love the scenery here, the people here, and the op-portunity to give back to the community that raised me.

I appreciate the hometown feel here and the value that word-of-mouth retains in this community. The greatest compli-ment I receive is when someone tells me they heard about me from one of my pa-tients.

What are some common prob-lems your patients have, and how do you help them?

We treat an expansive variety of problems from brain tumors to herni-ated discs. Many of my spine patients have seen several different medical pro-viders and some have undergone several different treatments for their back and

leg pain before they arrive in my of� ce. Most have complaints of back pain cou-pled with sciatica or nerve pain, typically running down the back of their legs. These patients bene� t from the minimally inva-sive approaches to lumbar discectomies and spinal fusions.

Which patients might be candidates for the surgery? The ideal candidate for minimally in-vasive spinal fusion is someone suffering from back and leg pain due to a spondylolis-thesis, or slippage, of the lumbar vertebrae. This is a condition sometimes missed on an initial workup as it often requires spe-cialized X-rays with the patients bending forward or backward to clearly visualize. Often, patients are pain-free while lying on their back, such as during their MRI scans, but upon standing their pain re-turns.

Can you explain how it works? What are the bene� ts of minimally invasive spine surgery?

Minimally invasive spine surgery uses specialized technology within the operating room to allow for smaller in-

cisions and more precise placement of instrumentation. We are able to actu-ally obtain a CT scan of the patient while they are asleep on the operating room table and customize our surgical approach to the individual patient, in real time. This allows for much smaller incisions and less damage to the tissues surround-ing the spine. Ultimately, this approach gets people back on their feet sooner than is generally necessary for a more tradition-al, open approach to the spine.

What makes the Center for Mini-mally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Cen-ter the best choice for this surgery?

Fort Sanders Regional has demonstrat-ed a true commitment to excellence in spine surgery, and especially minimally invasive neurosurgery. The hospital has been in-strumental in purchasing state-of-the-art intraoperative image guidance that allows minimally invasive surgery to be possible. We have a dedicated team of nurses and technicians in the operating room who are experienced and specially trained to assist in these minimally invasive pro-

cedures. Post-operatively, our nurses are also hand-picked and specially trained in the management of our patients who have undergone minimally invasive spinal procedures, and we have a dedicated � oor of the hospital reserved for neuroscience, and especially spine patients.

What’s it like to also practice medicine in the place where you grew up?

Many of my friends and family still live nearby and it’s been great to recon-nect with people I hadn’t had the op-portunity to see in the years I was away for training. It’s also been an honor and a humbling experience to take care of people who watched me grow up in a small town. I’ve taken care of my school teachers, old friends, and family members of friends who knew me in high school. I have a relatively unique experience in that I graduated high school with many of the same people I started kindergarten with. I’m honored that those people who watched me grow up trust me now with their health.

Meet Dr. Joel Norman local neurosurgeon and Seymour native

I wouldn’t have � exibility like I had before,” said Garibay, who now works in Alcoa’s store room. “I’m still stiff to a certain point but I’m getting back to doing what an old man should be able to do.”

What he’s able to do is run and gun with men 20 to 30 years his junior, playing as many as � ve games every Thursday night until the parks & recreation league season starts around Thanksgiving. It’s something the 6-foot-2 Garibay, who once had dreams of playing collegiately, has been doing for

almost 30 years now. “I don’t drink. I don’tparty. I just play basketball,” said Garibay.“That’s my one vice – playing ball.”

“It hurts my feelings when they say, ‘I’ve got the old man,’” said Garibay. “But by theend of the game, they are usually tryingto catch up with me. They aren’t talking aboutthe ‘old man’ anymore. That makes me feelbetter.”

So did the spine surgery. For the � rst time in seven years, Garibay is back to sleep-ing in his bed rather than a recliner. “I wasconcerned that I wouldn’t be able to do halfthe stuff that I used to do,” said Garibay,adding that he had even bought a tractorlawnmower because he wouldn’t be ableto lift anything anymore. “All I had heardwere horror stories. Everybody kept tellingme they would never have back surgery be-cause everybody they’d ever heard of whohad back surgery were never the same. ButI’m running around lifting stuff like surgerynever happened.”

That’s what Dr. Norman likes to hear.“I think spine surgery should be per-

formed with the ultimate goal of returningto activities patients enjoy,” he said. “Gener-ally, the patients I see have given up on someactivity or sport because of the back and legpain associated with their degenerative con-dition. It’s my goal to see them return to theseactivities. I’m encouraged he should do wellwith basketball. His incentive in undergoingsurgery was to return to the sport he was un-able to play as a result of his condition. Whoam I to tell him he can’t?”

“Mr. Garibay’s course couldn’t havegone any better,” added Dr. Norman. “He’sbeen very pleased with his outcome, andI believe he should be able to return to allactivity without dif� culty. Cases like hisremind us of why we went into medicine.I appreciate the opportunity to improvethe quality of life of my patients and it’sa pleasure to see people return to the lifethey enjoyed prior to being encumberedby pain.”

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This summer, DLIA did two bioblitzes in partnership with TVA.

The High Ground Park project came about through a partnership formed with the University of Tennessee, Legacy Parks and the Aslan Foundation, which provided the funding, says Witcher, a former high school biology teacher and Ijams Nature Center educator.

“We’re happy this ef-fort is underway and that so many organizations, residents and students are participating,” says Jeff Mansour, executive direc-tor of the Aslan Foundation. “The Urban Wilderness is a priceless environmental as-set for our community that’s quickly gaining value as an economic engine, as well.”

The eight-hour blitz hopes for a little help from a lot of friends. Volunteers collect the data for scien-tists to examine.

“That adds another ele-ment because it really cre-ates buy-in from those folks who’ve gotten a hands-on experience,” says Witcher.

The “citizen scientists” not only help collect the data but “hopefully become better stewards” of the land, he says.

Volunteers as young as 10 (children must be accompa-nied by a parent) will gather at 10 a.m. at High Ground Park. Each should bring a smartphone with a free app called iNaturalist already downloaded.

“We go out in groups usually led by a specialist or

a scientist or both. The vol-unteers take pictures of the things that they see and the things they fi nd. We’ll be fo-cused on plants, butterfl ies and moths, and birds.”

Specialists on site will make identifi cations based on the photos, but when they’re stumped, iNatural-ist has experts who will help. Volunteers can also upload birdcalls since birds may be diffi cult to photograph.

The data uploaded will be available to “the city and conservationists and who-ever else wants to know the information,” says Witcher. Even after the bioblitz is over, people can continue to upload info to iNaturalist.

“We hope to raise enough interest and support that we can do more of these,” says Witcher. “Obviously, one bioblitz is not going to tell us everything we need to know about the Urban Wilderness.”

“The bioblitz will help us protect and enhance the Urban Wilderness by helping us understand the threats it faces,” says Man-sour. “Whether it’s invasive plants like kudzu and privet or invasive insects, we need to know where these prob-lems exist and where to fo-cus our resources.”

To register as a volun-teer for the bioblitz, go to www.volunteerknoxville.org. Under “Find Volunteer Opportunities,” search “Ur-ban Wilderness” and enter “37920” in the box below. Volunteers should wear out-door clothing and bring wa-ter and lunch.

Church and state From page 1

sippi Parkway exit ramp there battled developers to the state Supreme Court. It later became part of the city after a “fi nger annexa-tion,” and attorney Wayne Kline has been involved at every step along the way. He is representing opponents of the First Baptist rezon-ing request and believes the traffi c study will show that commercial develop-ment will be harmful to the neighborhood.

“There’s lots of room for commercial at Northshore,” he said. “Why do you have to bring in a commercial com-ponent to Westland? I think a good traffi c study will say you can’t put commercial development in here and hopefully MPC will do their job and make sure things are done properly. The pur-pose of zoning regulations is compatibility.”

Ultimately, the issue will land on City Council’s agen-da. Council member Mark Campen, whose district includes the Inskip area as well as North Broadway, and who opposed the rezon-ing request for the former

Presbyterian church, said he’ll consider the Westland issues carefully.

“We need to look at when is it OK to open up residen-tial areas to commercial uses,” he said. The owner (of the former church in Inskip) swore that the use wasn’t going to go to any-thing more intense, but we just can’t foretell the future. We’ve got to be very careful about how we rezone.”

No one from First Baptist Concord (which has nearly 80 employees listed in its online directory) responded to phone calls or emails, but it is represented by attorney Arthur Seymour Jr., who said he’s not sure what the fl ap is about.

“(The Centerpointe site) is a good place for a com-mercial center. It’s an in-terstate interchange. Obvi-ously there are some issues, and we’ll wait for the traffi c study. But it’s a good project and a great location.”

Seymour declined com-ment when asked why First Baptist owns real estate nearly six miles distant from its campus.

By Betsy PickleJohn Sevier Days at Mar-

ble Springs State Historic Site will have special signifi -cance this year.

During the Sept. 19-20 event, “We are going to be commemorating the bi-centennial of John Sevier’s death,” says Anna Chap-pelle, Marble Springs ex-ecutive director. “He died Sept. 24, 1815. His birthday is actually Sept. 23, 1745.”

Sounds like it would be a good time for people to bring presents to Marble Springs – and that’s where the Sevier Soirée comes in. The event is one of the year’s major fundraisers for the home of Tennessee’s fi rst governor. It will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, on the Marble Springs grounds.

Tickets, $50 per person, are on sale at www.mar-blesprings.net. They may be purchased via check at P.O. Box 20195, Knoxville, TN 37940, or at the Marble Springs offi ce on Gov. John Sevier Highway. Deadline is Sept. 14.

Hoping to reach more than the usual faithful sup-porters, Chappelle says the third annual soirée will feature a performance by popular local Americana band Guy Marshall and a Southern-inspired dinner by Bradford Catering.

Silent-auction items will include a highly sought-after framed photo of the Sevier cabin, signed by pho-tographer Michael Byerley, as well as a restored antique chair, tickets to area attrac-tions and restaurant gift cards.

Earlier in the day and on Sunday, John Sevier Days will feature historical reen-actments, lectures and dem-onstrations. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admis-sion is $5 adult, $3 children.

■ New program director, BurlesonSamantha Burleson

started Aug. 10 as Marble Springs’ program director. The position takes the place of assistant director, which was recently vacated.

Burleson

Sevier Soirée adds music, Southern fare

Anna Chappelle and grounds manager John Gammon are

dressed for the soirée.

Burleson previously vol-unteered at Mabry-Hazen

House. She g r adu at e d from the Universit y of Tennessee with a Bach-elor of Arts in music and culture and m e d i e v a l

studies.“It’s a little later than

medieval – kind of at the very end,” she says jokingly about her new focus on the late 18th and early 19th cen-turies.

Chappelle says Burleson’s educational background “piqued my interest because there have been times when I thought it would be so cool to have the Knoxville Symphony out here play-

Guests enjoy dinner at the

2014 Sevier Soirée.

ing music that pertained to the period. Even when I was giving Samantha her

fi rst tour around the prop-erty, she was able to give me some information about music during the time.”

Once things settle down after busy September, Bur-leson hopes to incorporate some of her specialty into the programming at Marble Springs.

“I think adding some of the music history will be en-tirely interesting,” she says. “It will be something new for people to come back and learn about.”

Also upcoming at Mar-ble Springs: Oct. 3 knitting workshop; Nov. 7 open-hearth cooking; Dec. 5 can-dle-making; Dec. 12 candle-light tours.

MILESTONE ■ Army Pvt. Keanon A. Lessenden recently graduated from basic

combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Lessenden is the

son of Gina M. Lucero and is a 2015 graduate of South-Doyle High

School.


Wendy Smith

Parents want their children to have everything they need

for a good education, but in rural Appalachia, this privilege

is sometimes an impossibility. In 1998, the Mission of Hope

took on the yearly ministry of helping to provide school

supplies to children living in poverty-stricken areas of

rural Appalachia. Working through elementary schools

with very high free lunch percentages the Mission of Hope

gathers together backpacks, glue, scissors, crayons, rulers,

protractors, spiral notebooks, pens and pencils, so needy

children can start the new school year with the necessary

supplies.

The Mission of Hope needs your help with its 2015 Back-To-School Campaign.

We hope to assist over 11,500 Appalachian children this year.

Will you please help us help those in need?

Marvin West

This Tennessee football team has the potential to do something signifi cant.

Oh no, it does not project as a participant in the na-tional playoffs, but it could win nine games. That would be the best since 2007, next-to-last season for Phillip Fulmer.

These Volunteers could be precursors to really good times. If Butch Jones and his staff can coach as well as they recruit, this season will be one big step toward Southeastern Conference relevance, a future top 10 in the polls, even an occasion-al victory over Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

The brick-by-brick build-ing job was impressive. Now comes the harder part, go-ing chin to chin with the big boys without backing or get-ting knocked down.

Tennessee fans have waited impatiently for a re-turn of the good, old days. Butch can only guess how it will be when that mission is offi cially accomplished.

Keep in mind that I am only 81. I missed the fi rst peak of the Neyland era and did not fully grasp Bob Suffridge’s description of 1938-40, SEC champs, 31-2 overall, 15 consecutive games without permitting a point. This was the time of George Cafego, Bowden Wyatt and Ed Molinski, all, along with Suff, in the Col-lege Football Hall of Fame.

I saw clearly 1950 and 1951, Doug Atkins, Hank Lauricella, John Michels,

Best and worst of times

playing their way to the Hall, national champs, 21-2 overall. My view was unob-structed. It helped to have a cousin on the team.

One year after Wyatt came as coach, the 1956 Volunteers were terrifi c. John Majors led the charge, perfect regular season, less perfect in the Sugar Bowl.

I thought this was the launch of another dominant period. It wasn’t. The best of times turned into one of the worst as Wyatt declined, the Vols sagged, Chattanooga staged an ungodly upset, single-wing tailbacks were hard to fi nd and Ole Miss threw into the fl at and ex-posed the 6-2-2-1 defense.

Doug Dickey restored or-der. I still think Steve Kiner, Jack Reynolds and Jackie Walker were the best line-backer trio I have seen. That was 1969.

Dickey went away. Bob Woodruff erred in choosing bright, young (very young) end coach Bill Battle as his replacement.

Battle did fi ne with Dickey’s recruits. Those Vols thrashed Dickey’s fi rst Florida team and walloped undefeated Air Force in the Sugar Bowl. Ah yes, those were good times.

Erosion was measured by one less victory per year.

Majors was Tennessee coach from 1977 through 1992. This was an up and down era. He won eight in his fi fth season, nine in ’83, gave us the legendary Sugar Vols in 1985 and peaked in 1989-90.

Simple summation of the Fulmer years: 100 more wins than losses, na-tional championship, best of times. Butch Jones has heard about this. He may have seen video of Peyton Manning or Al Wilson or some of the great offensive linemen.

Fulmer was a first-bal-lot Hall of Fame honoree. His teams beat up on Ala-bama. They had trouble with Florida.

Firing Fulmer without a plan led to the absolute worst of times. Lane Kiffi n was a bad joke. Derek Dool-ey was … well, let’s just say some of the scores and stats were horrible, worst in the forever history of Tennessee football. Forget not that a really good day was spoiled by the chaotic inability to count to 11. Do remember that Kentucky won with a reserve receiver playing quarterback.

From that mess, Butch Jones has rebuilt the Vol-unteers. You may not recog-nize alternate uniforms but results should appear more like the Tennessee score-board is supposed to look. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected].

Gerald Green, the new director of the Metropoli-tan Planning Commission, is following through with his commitment to keep in touch with neighborhoods. Last week, he told members of the city’s Neighborhood Advisory Council that he’s aware of the “challenges” of his predecessor, Mark Donaldson, and he wants communication to fl ow both ways.

“I have lots of years of ex-perience, but I don’t know what Knoxville wants. You have to create the vision.”

The Neighborhood Ad-visory Council is composed of neighborhood leaders appointed by Mayor Mad-eline Rogero. The group meets monthly to give feedback to the Offi ce of Neighborhoods, bring is-sues to the attention of the administration and serve as a sounding board for city initiatives.

Neighborhoods “defi ne who you are in the com-munity,” but they tend to break down and become less defi ned as areas grow, Green says. He plans to look at ways to protect neighbor-hoods, which are affected by development along cor-ridors.

Certain businesses, like “alternative financing” institutions, ref lect badly on nearby neighborhoods. Communities like Fourth

MPC Executive Director Gerald Green speaks with

Boright area representative Lola Alapo after last

week’s Neighborhood Advisory Council meeting. Photo by Wendy Smith

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Green reaches out to neighborhoods

and Gill “pay the price” for easy interstate access with high levels of traffic noise. Balancing those issues is a tough job for MPC, he says.

Corridors present a num-ber of challenges. He plans to look at ways to encourage new development and rede-velopment of property along corridors like Chapman Highway and Broadway that will benefi t nearby neigh-borhoods.

Green thinks diversity of housing is one of Knox-ville’s strengths. The cur-rent trend is a preference for smaller, lower-maintenance housing with walkability. That needs to be considered when corridors are devel-oped because they need to offer walkability while still serving those in cars.

Looking at Knoxville and Knox County zoning code is like stepping into a time machine, he says. The code isn’t keeping up with cur-rent trends and needs to be re-examined, but that would stretch the MPC’s small staff.

Dealing with two sets of

ordinances is a challenge. One of his goals is to make the organization of the city and county ordinances sim-ilar.

During his tenure with the city of Asheville, he spent four years on a com-plete rewrite of the city code. Such an endeavor here would require an enormous amount of staff time, but he thinks it may be necessary for development to happen “the way it should.” He’d recommend hiring a con-sultant.

“You don’t make a lot of friends doing that.”

He took notes as repre-sentatives shared neighbor-hood concerns. Lauren Rid-er of Old North Knoxville says that those who want to open new businesses on Central have to choose be-tween rezoning or request-ing a variance in order to redevelop. David Gillette of Mechanicsville says his neighbors want to know about possible redevelop-ment on the Knoxville Col-lege campus. Travetta John-son said Parkridge residents are concerned that the new owner of a neighborhood church building will allow it to languish.

Green said he would stay in touch with neighborhood coordinator David Massey and attend, or send staff members, to future neigh-borhood meetings.

Shopper news • AUGUST 19, 2015 • 5 government

Betty Bean

Carson Dailey has been involved in community is-sues for decades, and a South Knox advocate for longer than that, so it should surprise no one that he’s preparing to run for County Commission next year.

Carson Dailey

Longtime South Knox advocate to

seek County Commission seat

The timing is good since he will be stepping down from his seat on the county Board of Zoning Appeals, where he has served since 2009 when County Com-mission was hit with a court order that forced them to stop appointing themselves to the board, and to make it citizens-only.

He was also one of the fi rst citizens to serve on the county’s Ethics Committee, a position he says was very good preparation to run for the county’s legislative body.

“I learned a lot in the past six years. Serving on

BZA is very interesting and I got a lot of training on zon-ings and how government works.”

Dailey has served as president of his homeown-ers’ group – South-Doyle Neighborhood Association – founded in the late ’70s by Mike Brown, the incumbent commissioner from District 9 who will leave the seat next year.

“When Mike Brown men-tioned that he wasn’t go-ing to seek re-election, we started talking around and my neighbors said, ‘You need to run.’ I said no, that I didn’t have the time. A few months ago, they asked me to run again. I said I’d do it, and so far there’s been a great response. I’ve got a lot of backing.”

Dailey, a 1978 graduate of South-Young High School, said he’s running because he loves Knox County – es-pecially South Knoxville – and wants to make sure it gets its fair share of quality growth.

“South Knoxville’s still the biggest rural area we’ve got right now. We’ve lost our

community schools. When they merged South and Young high schools togeth-er, the two communities went to one gigantic school, and it’s hard for a communi-ty to keep its identity when that happens.”

The summer after Dailey graduated from high school, he took a job at UT work-ing on the Neyland Stadium maintenance crew doing painting, pressure washing and general cleanup. That September, he got a job as a truck driver with Dixie Bearings (now Applied In-dustrial Technologies). He

moved to an inside job the following year and by 1981, he had been promoted to ac-count manager, a position he holds today.

He married Tammy Cur-tis, whom he calls his soul-mate, 35 years ago. They have a son, Jeremy, who is a graphic designer.

Dailey had a setback in March, when he was diag-nosed with kidney cancer and had a kidney removed. He says the cancer was caught early on, and he feels pretty good nowadays, even though he had to give up a hardcore Mountain Dew habit.

If elected, he’s planning to approach County Com-mission with the same de-termination he has brought to BZA and to his fi ght against cancer.

“There’s not a better place to live than South Knoxville, and I want to make sure we get quality growth on the south side,” he said. “We’ve probably got 11-13 payday loan compa-nies along Chapman High-way. I want to help get good quality businesses in here.”

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Jason Zachary scored an impressive win last week taking the GOP primary for state representative over veteran school board member Karen Carson. He won in all but two precincts in the West Knox County district.

Carson was backed by Gov. Bill Haslam and state Sen. Richard Briggs. Insure Tennessee was made the primary issue of the cam-paign, and it lost. The sole public offi cial openly back-ing Zachary was state Rep. Roger Kane, who offered sage advice.

Carson’s campaign donor list was a signifi -cant, im-pressive list of state and local VIPs. Even two Knoxville City Council members, George

Wallace and Finbarr Saun-ders, were on it.

Zachary had backing from Germantown state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and several House legislative leaders such as Jeremy Durham and Glen Casada. However, his base donor list was not nearly as well known as Carson’s.

Zachary had run a sur-prisingly strong race just one yea r ago for Congress and actually carried Far-ragut. He kept that support and defeated a much better fi nanced and more experi-enced offi ceholder (11 years on school board) this time. He proved that high-pow-ered endorsements do not equate to victory.

Knox County Commis-sion is expected to appoint Zachary as state represen-tative since he is unopposed in the Sept. 29 general elec-tion. He may have a special swearing-in ceremony in Farragut just as Sen. Becky Duncan Massey did in Fountain City after her election.

Zachary will seek a full term in August 2016, which means he will have cam-paigned for public offi ce three times in three years. Zachary, like his friend Rep. Kane, came out of nowhere to prevail. He is a new name on the political scene.

He will be a conservative voice in Nashville. A gas tax and Insure Tennessee will not have his vote. He sup-ports Kane on restoring the Lady Vols name and requir-ing the UT Board of Trust-

Zachary overwhelms opposition

ees to have a public forum at its board meetings.

■ The U.S. Senate confi rmed Eric Satz of Nashville to the TVA Board of Directors on Aug. 5. The board now has nine mem-bers and for the fi rst time in recent history not one is from East Tennessee, while two are from Nashville and Memphis each. Satz is controversial in Nash-ville but was unknown by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, who is a Democrat.

■ President Obama has also nominated Richard Howorth, a former mayor of Oxford, Miss., to a second term on the TVA Board. He has the backing of the state’s two Republican senators and should be con-fi rmed. His term expired last May, but he continues to the end of 2015.

■ Former NATO Am-bassador Kurt Volker will speak at the Baker Center at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. The public is invited. Volker, who now leads the McCain Institute at the University of Arizona, will discuss Iran, Greece and challenges for the United States in Europe.

■ Mary Costa was hon-ored last Friday, Aug. 14, by Gov. Bill and Crissy Haslam in a private ceremony. She was one of 10 recipients of Tennessee’s highest honor in the arts. Costa was un-able to attend the March 17 ceremony in Nashville, so the governor made a private presentation of the Distin-guished Artist Award while he was in Knoxville dedi-cating the new Welcome Center at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens in East Knoxville (formerly Howell Nursery).

■ Over 300 people attended the dedication of the Welcome Center where Gov. Haslam, Mayor Burchett and Mayor Rogero spoke. The crowd was a cross-section of Knoxville.

Former county mayor Tommy Schumpert along with all fi ve living Knox-ville mayors were present.

Most of City Council were present, along with Sens. Briggs and Massey as well as Reps. Armstrong, Dunn, Smith, Kane and Brooks plus GOP nominee Zachary.

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Karen Carson

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‘We Pray for Children’By Ina Hughes

We pray for children Who put chocolate fi ngers every-

where, Who like to be tickled, Who stomp in puddles and ruin their

new pants, Who sneak Popsicles before supper, Who erase holes in math workbooks, Who can never fi nd their shoes.

And we pray for those Who stare at photographers from be-

hind barbed wire, Who can’t bound down the street in

new sneakers, Who never “counted potatoes,” Who are born in places we wouldn’t

be caught dead in, Who never go to the circus, Who live in an X-rated world.

We pray for children Who bring us sticky kisses and fi st-

fuls of dandelions, Who sleep with the cat and bury

goldfi sh,

Who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,

Who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,

Who slurp their soup.

And we pray for those Who never get dessert, Who have no safe blanket to drag be-

hind them, Who can’t fi nd any bread to steal, Who don’t have any rooms to clean up, Whose pictures aren’t on anybody’s

dresser, Whose monsters are real.

We pray for children Who spend all their allowance before

Tuesday, Who throw tantrums in the grocery

store and pick at their food, Who like ghost stories, Who shove dirty clothes under the

bed, Who get visits from the tooth fairy, Who don’t like to be kissed in front of

the car pool,

Who squirm in church and scream on the phone,

Whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.

And we pray for those Whose nightmares come in the day-

time, Who will eat anything, Who have never seen a dentist, Who are never spoiled by anyone, Who go to bed hungry and cry them-

selves to sleep, Who live and move, but have no be-

ing.

We pray for children Who want to be carried And for those who must, For those we never give up on And for those who never get a second

chance, For those we smother. And for those who will grab the hand

of anybody kind enough to offer it.

We pray for children.Amen. We pray for Children, 1995, William Morrow publish-

ers. Used by permission of author.

Dear God (and other prayers)So if Jason Zachary beat

Karen Car-son because it was God’s will, then it follows that God doesn’t like Insure Ten ne s s e e and strong-ly supports s c h o o l

vouchers.And it confi rms some-

thing we’ve long suspected: God really does favor Bap-tists over Methodists.

In Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, word has gone forth. Gov. Haslam is toothless, and Insure Tennessee is a pathway to defeat. Never mind the myriad of local is-sues and personalities that had more to do with the out-come of this race.

And, dear God, why should a minuscule vote in

one of Tennessee’s most af-fl uent districts determine the fate of health insurance for the working poor?

Oh, the irony.Also, we salute the school

voucher proponents who stood shoulder to shoulder with public school teach-ers who will be hurt most by a legislatively mandated voucher program. Way to go, teachers. Guess you showed Karen Carson!

So we all move on. Let’s stop praying for

politicians and start praying for kids.

And let’s start with the absolutely best such prayer I’ve heard. It’s from our friend Ina Hughs, “A Prayer for Children.”

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Walking through the hallway to his offi ce, newly appointed South-Doyle Middle School principal Taiwo “Tye” Sutton points to students fi lling their lock-ers and says, “Do you see this right here? When they enter the school, they’re like the water that fi lls in all the gaps.”

Sutton began his teach-ing career in Ohio, passing his love of music on to stu-dents in grades K-6 in a gen-eral music class.

“At some point, you want to make more of an impact. I became concerned not only with how students were doing in my class, but how they were doing in math and other areas,” he said. Sutton fi rst served as faculty chair then worked his way to Ten-nessee and assistant princi-

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poster in his offi ce. Photo by S. Barrett

Knox County Schools, the Knoxville Police Depart-ment and the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce have teamed to make sure that children in the school system are safe, whether in the class-room or on the school bus.

“Every day it’s top pri-ority to keep our children safe,” said Superintendent Jim McIntyre. “Additional strategies are being added to enhance safety.” One of

the fi rst requirements will be additional training of school bus drivers, with a focus on distracted driv-ing. A ride-along system is being developed where a uniformed offi cer will ride a school bus periodically to double-check skills and safety practices.

Knox County Schools is currently looking into fund-ing for video cameras for all buses, to record the driver

and the activity on the bus. The fi nal step in the safety plan is a third-party com-prehensive and detailed re-view of the transportation program.

The school system works with KPD and KCSO to have a uniformed offi cer in every school. School doors are locked during the day, and visitors are required to check in at the front offi ce of every school upon entering.

Safety is top priority

By Wendy SmithNo matter how you feel

about your family, you can’t escape them.

“You have your fam-ily tree in every cell in your body,” says genealogist and East Tennessee Histori-cal Society board member George Schweitzer. He gave a brown bag lecture on how

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Allow me to introduce ... myselfWelcome to the new

school year! I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself before sharing the great news happening in your South Knox schools.

I have worked for the Shopper News for about eight years and cover school news in Bearden, Farragut, Karns and Hardin Valley.

Sara Barrett

I am excited to add South Knox schools to that list this year. I have already visited several schools in the area and feel very welcomed.

I live in Lenoir City and have a stepdaughter be-ginning her second year of college this week and a 5-year-old who started kin-dergarten last week. I am married to a Red Sox fan and have three cats.

If you have a school-relat-ed story you’d like to share with our readers, feel free to contact me anytime. Phone/text at 919-1102 or [email protected].

pal at Fulton High School. He was appointed principal of SDMS in May.

“Things you miss the most are the questions they ask in the classroom,” says Sutton of his transition from teaching to administration. “For a mind that’s thirsty for knowledge, lots of times the question can be more pow-erful than an answer. I want them to keep asking ques-tions. Now I can teach from multiple aspects. And I still get to see all the kids.”

This school year, Sutton’s main goal is to have every student want to be at school and none of them want to leave.

One of the tools he uses is a story about his job at Mc-Donald’s during college. He would see customers return to the drive-thru if they were given the wrong order. “They asked for a super-sized fry, and we gave them a small fry,” he says.

“That’s what I want our students to do. Make us do our job. Don’t leave at the end of the day with a ques-tion unanswered. Don’t settle for less than what you want.”

South Knoxville Elementary School welcomes new teachers this year including fi rst-grade

teacher Jill Bryson, third-grade teacher Jessica Maynard and fi rst-grade teacher Cindy Josey.

School principal Tanna Nicely (not pictured) said enrollment is up to 176 so far (an increase of 20

students from last sch ool year).

we get our DNA, and what we can learn from it, at the his-tory center last week.

T h a t family tree is replicated in each of

the roughly 37 million cells in your body. Each cell con-tains 23 pairs of long chemi-cal strings called DNA, and each string carries markers that are passed from one generation to the next. The use of DNA testing in gene-alogical research is a “fad,” but as the database of DNA test results grows, so does the chance of being able to locate a third cousin, he says. And that can be dan-gerous.

“Every one of mine wants to borrow money.”

Schweitzer knows his stuff. He has Ph.D.s in chemistry and philosophy, as well as a Sc.D. (doctor of science) for work in the history of sci-ence. He’s been a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee since 1948. At 90, he’s still in constant motion when he speaks.

Testing options in-clude Y-DNA, mitochon-drial DNA and autosomal DNA, but Schweitzer rec-ommends autosomal, oratDNA testing, because it looks at 700,000 mark-ers. Even though DNA gets “mixed and chopped” dur-ing the inheritance process, atDNA testing can help fi ll in genealogical “blanks” up to six generations away.

DNA testing can verify some parts of the family tree, help with “brick walls” and allow people to connect with unknown relatives. It can also tell you that years of research are invalid. The history center has counsel-ors standing by, Schweitzer says with a chuckle.

He knows of numerous incidents where DNA test-ing helped people locate cousins. The best-case sce-nario is that the cousin is also affl icted with the ge-nealogy “disease,” and that they have information you don’t.

He warned that DNA testing can’t replace docu-ment research and doesn’t provide any certainties − just probabilities. He rec-ommends atDNA testing from Ancestry.com, along with an extra fee to transfer the information to Family Tree in order to be included in two large databases. He also recommends that gene-alogy enthusiasts encourage siblings, parents and grand-parents be tested.

Schweitzer was intro-duced by Paul Coker, the historical society’s new staff historian. He has a Ph.D. in history from UT and has previously lectured at the history center.

Wild Wood onstageBy Cindy Taylor

When the 2015 opening bell rang at Central High School, incoming freshman Cian (pronounced Key-an) Bell was a bit less apprehen-sive than he could have been had he not already been on-stage at the school.

Cian has been perform-ing for more than four years and appeared in three plays at Central while he was a student at Gresham Middle School. He hopes to join the Drama Club now that he is at Central.

“I’m still pretty ner-vous,” he said. “It’s hard being a freshman, and high school is a whole different experience.”

Cian is right at home on the stage at Knoxville Children’s Theatre playing the role of Mr. Badger in the production “The Wind in the Willows.” The stage adaptation of the beloved children’s book by Kenneth Grahame is written and di-rected by Zack Allen.

Fourteen-year-old Cian says Knoxville Children’s Theatre is great for child ac-tors and has a very profes-sional atmosphere.

“The Wind in the Wil-lows” is the 28th original play to be created by the company. Seven veteran children’s actors and three newcomers will be per-forming.

Shopper news • AUGUST 19, 2015 • 7 weekender

By Betsy PickleNowadays, you never

have to leave your house to see a movie.

That’s what Paul Har-rill and Darren Hughes are afraid of. More and more, fi lm watchers are giving up on movie theaters – which don’t offer much variety anyway – and staying home to view either streaming movies or ones on DVD.

They miss out on both the communal aspect of movie-going and, for the most part, the opportunity to see something different.

Harrill and Hughes came up with The Public Cinema to change that. Rotating be-tween the Knoxville Muse-um of Art, Scruffy City Hall and the Pilot Light, they are screening fi lms that don’t play at Knoxville’s tradi-tional theaters, and they’re trying to build community at the same time.

“What’s really driving my interest in it is the com-munal aspect, the fact that however many show up … these are 20, 40, 60, 80 people that showed up be-cause of a common interest in seeing something differ-ent,” says Harrill. “Getting all those people in the same room and getting them to meet each other and talk to each other – because they don’t know each other – is really valuable.

“That’s something you don’t get from the home-theater experience; that’s something you don’t get from Netfl ix – or even a regular movie theater. It’s

By Carol ShaneNelda Hill, central li-

brary services manager for the Knox County library system, is glad to be back on board with the Knoxville Jazz Festival, which she co-founded with pianist Don-ald Brown in 2006.

Because of setbacks in the economy, the nonprofi t festival had been on hiatus since 2010. But now things are looking brighter, and Hill is excited about this year’s featured guests.

Jazz saxophone icon Benny Golson is a veteran of the Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey bands. He’s also the only liv-

Opening Friday at Downtown West, “The End of the Tour” details the fi ve-day interview of au-

thor David Foster Wallace (“Infi nite Jest”) by Rolling Stone

writer David Lipsky. Jason Segel gives an incredible per-

formance as the uncomfortable, unknowable doomed

author, while Jesse Eisenberg is strong as the admiring

yet resentful and often unlikable interviewer. Director

James Ponsoldt creates an atmospheric ride that reveals

the complex structure of art as seen through the prism of

fame. – Mini review by Betsy Pickle

“Tu dors Nicole” will play at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Knoxville Museum of Art.

French pianist Manuel

Rocheman and sax master

Benny Golson headline the

2015 Knoxville Jazz Festival. Photos submitted

Giving back to the community – through fi lm

Time for

ing jazz artist to have writ-ten eight standards for jazz repertoire, including “Killer Joe,” covered by Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones, among many others. As Hill says, “They’re songs that you hear all the time that you don’t realize you know.”

Golson’s career spans 60 years, and he’s composed

and arranged music for such disparate artists as Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Mama Cass Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gil-lespie, the Monkees, Peggy Lee, Itzhak Perlman, Oscar Peterson, Lou Rawls, Mick-ey Rooney, Diana Ross, Mel Torme and Dusty Spring-fi eld.

You’ve heard his music on “M*A*S*H,” “Mannix,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Mod Squad,” “The Partridge Family” and the Academy Awards. He’s also a prolifi c composer of advertising jingles.

But mostly, he’s an ac-knowledged world-class master of jazz who is still

going strong at 85 years of age.

University of Tennessee jazz professor and drum-mer Keith R. Brown calls Golson, simply, “the best of the best.” He’s such a fan that he’ll be hosting “Benny Golson: Something About That Sax (man)” at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Aug. 20, at the Lawson McGhee Library meeting room. It’s a great chance to learn more about Golson and his massive in-fl uence on the jazz world.

Also featured at the fes-tival is French pianist Man-uel Rocheman, a favorite of Donald Brown’s. “He blew me away, he was so good,” says the world-renowned pi-anist and local treasure. “If you love jazz you must come to this concert and discover what Europe and the rest of the world already know.”

Both artists will appear at the Bijou on Friday night, Aug. 28.

The next day, “Jazz in a Hot Scruffy City” begins as local historian and Knox-ville Mercury writer Jack Neely leads a “Jazz Jaunt”

through downtown Knox-ville. Scruffy City Hall on Market Square will feature local jazz performers all day long as well as classic jazz fi lms, a tribute to local jazz legend Bill Scarlett, a lec-ture by Bill McGowan and R.B. Morris and an all-star jazz jam. And pianist Keith L. Brown will have a CD release party at the Square Room at 8 p.m.

“It’s a sweet little festi-val,” says Hill.

The 2015 Knoxville Jazz Festival opens at 8 p.m. Fri-day, Aug. 28, at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St., in downtown Knoxville. Ben-ny Golson performs fi rst, followed by Manuel Roche-man. Tickets are $35.

“Jazz in a Hot, Scruffy City” begins at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Aug. 29, and runs until 11 p.m., with general admission for the Scruffy City Hall events priced at $5. Tickets for Keith L. Brown’s CD release party are $20. Info: knoxjazzfest.org/new-events/.Send story suggestions to News@

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about expanding not just your tastes and the movies you’ve seen but the people you know, enriching your life.”

After a test run of a few fi lms in the spring, The Public Cinema started its fall season last Wednesday at Scruffy City Hall with the short “Judy Judy Judy” and the feature “I Believe in Unicorns.” Next up is the French-Canadian comedy-drama “Tu dors Nicole” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at the KMA.

Hughes says that once they arranged to screen at the three locations, they decided to “program for the

venue. So we’ve come up with these three different strands of programming.”

The Scruffy City series is “Made in the U.S.A.” – “American independents of various sizes,” says Hughes. “Flicker and Wow” is the series at the Pilot Light. “We’re doing edgier stuff, so it’s avant garde, experimen-tal things.”

The KMA series is “Inter-national Currents,” cinema from other countries.

Harrill and Hughes have been friends for more than a decade, and they’ve been kicking around ideas for a fi lm club or fi lm series al-most as long. Harrill, the

Dee and Jimmy Haslam Professor of Film at the Uni-versity of Tennessee, is an award-winning fi lmmaker whose feature “Something, Anything” debuted last year at the Sarasota Film Festi-val. Hughes is a communi-cations professional for the UT Foundation and a fi lm critic for niche publications.

They started The Public Cinema by calling in favors from fi lmmakers and dis-tributors to get fi lms. The streaming service Fandor recently signed on as pre-senting sponsor for the Public Cinema, and thanks to it and the support of an anonymous donor, Harrill

and Hughes are guaranteed to keep showing movies – usually three a month – for at least a year.

Hughes sees the project as similar to First Friday, “where you walk around, you go into galleries and see what they’re painting, what they’re sculpting. Movies and the cinema have be-come excluded from the conversation about public art.”

“The community’s not having to do anything ex-cept fi gure out if they’re cu-rious and show up and enjoy themselves,” says Harrill.

Info: www.publiccinema.org.

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Hudson completed her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in nursing at the University of Tennessee.

Tennessee legislation has made it possible for commu-nity mental health centers to hire primary-care physi-cians and explore integrated health-care models. This new initiative will allow in-dividuals living with serious mental illness, who statisti-cally face an increased risk of having chronic medi-cal conditions, to be better served with a well-rounded team of medical specialists.

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By Sherry WittThe month of July saw a

c o n t i n u a -tion of the h e a l t h y pace local real estate and lend-ing markets have been setting for most of 2015. While

some of the data fell short of the peak 2014 levels set last July, it was nonetheless an-other very good period for commerce in Knox County.

For the month ending July 31, there were 1,220 property transfers re-corded, which comfortably surpassed the June total of 1,173. By comparison, last July saw 1,065 transfers.

The total value of prop-erty sold in July was a robust $247.3 million. Although that fi gure placed July in the top 10 months since 2008, it was well short of June’s four-year record total of $345 million. Despite fewer actual transactions, July 2014’s sales produced a greater ag-gregate property value, as al-

most $292 million worth of land was transferred.

Mortgage lending in July was steady but no-where near record levels as about $307 million was loaned in mortgages and refi nancing. Last July ap-proximately $347 million was borrowed against real property in Knox County. Even so, mortgage lending thus far in 2015 continues to outperform the same period of 2014 by more than half a billion dollars.

The most notable land transfer recorded last month was the sale of com-mercial property located at 9175 Kingston Pike near the intersection with Cedar Bluff Road. The parcel sold for just under $4.8 mil-lion. The largest lending transaction of the month was a loan in the amount of $11,364,372 against proper-ty at 612 Clyde St. in North-west Knoxville.

As of July 31, there have been almost 800 more property transfers recorded in Knox County than dur-ing the fi rst seven months of 2014.

Summer sizzles for real estate market

Witt

News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds

Hudson is McNabb’s director of nursing

Kelle Shultz, president of Knoxville Habitat for Hu-manity, was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Lead-er of the Year at the Tennes-see Habitat for Humanity State Impact Awards held in Murfreesboro.

This annual award is pre-sented to an individual who has demonstrated exempla-ry leadership, compassion, commitment and vision within their organization and community.

Shultz joined Habitat for

Humanity in 1994 after em-barking on a Habitat global village trip to Nicaragua. A Knoxville native, she serves on the Board of Visitors for the College of Arts and Sci-ences for the University of Tennessee. She is also a graduate of the 1999 Leader-ship Knoxville class and the 2002 class of University of Tennessee Associates. She has also participated in non-profi t leadership programs at Harvard Business School and UT.

Kelle Shultz accepts

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By Bonny C. MillardRotary District Gov. Beth

Stubbs congratulated the Rotary Club of Knoxville on its upcoming historic anni-versary and applauded the work the club does.

“I have something really special to pres-ent to you. What an honor for me to be district governor in a year that is so momen-tous for this club,” she said. “You’re celebrating your hundredth year.”

Stubbs, of the Maryville-Alcoa Rotary Club, pre-

sented club president Sandy Martin with a certifi cate signed by Rotary Interna-tional President Ravi Ra-vindran, Rotary Club of Sri Lanka.

The club has several events planned at the end of this month to celebrate the 100-year anniversary,

Sept. 1, 1915 – Sept. 1, 2015. Stubbs walked around

the room acknowledging a number of Rotarians she has worked with in the past including Brooks Clark, Ed

Rotary Club of Knoxville president Sandy Martin and district

governor Beth Stubbs.

Downtown Rotary cited for 100th year

Anderson, Townes Osborne, Don Hasson, Sam Albritton and Frank Rothermel and commended their service to the organization.

This district, 6780, is

special because it’s had three members who have been tapped to serve as in-ternational president, she said. The most recent is John Germ of Chattanooga,

who will serve in 2016-17.“There’s only one other

district in the world that’s had three Rotary presi-dents,” Stubbs said.

In addition to the certifi -cate, Stubbs acknowledged member Sam Weaver and his wife, Carol, who have become major donors, level 3, for a lifetime contribution of $50,000 or more and pre-sented them with a crystal medallion.

Stubbs said Rotary has

several top priorities for thecoming year. These includeusing technology to bettermeasure goals and com-municate information aboutprojects, continuing to growmembership, continuing tofund the foundation, per-forming more humanitar-ian service and growingyouth-based programs.

“It’s so inspiring all thatyou do, and all that I hopeyou will continue to do inthe future.”

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By Cindy TaylorThe newest, cutest fash-

ion statement has got to be tiny tennis shoes for min-iature horses. Elders at The Courtyards Senior Living got to see them fi rsthand Aug. 10 when volunteers from Shangri-La Thera-peutic Academy of Riding (STAR) brought a miniature horse and donkey for a visit.

Thanks to the invention of mini tennis shoes from Build-a-Bear and animal diapers, Flash the donkey and Honey the horse were allowed to make their way through the facility greeting the elders.

“The horses don’t seem to mind the shoes at all,” said STAR volunteer Susanna Dimmick.

Many residents had donned their cowboy hats and bandannas and had been waiting patiently for the horses to arrive. Wade Clemons returned to the fa-cility just as the horse and

Marie Nevader wears her

western hat while waiting to

greet the horses.

Samantha Lyons visits with her aunt, Edna Clark, while waiting

for the horses. Clark just celebrated her 94th birthday.

Flash, with Makeda Renfro-Sargent and STAR volunteer Susan-

na Dimmick, and Honey with STAR volunteer Donna Philips get

ready to go inside. Makeda was visiting her great-grandmoth-

er, Frances Nixon.

Katherine Mazzato, Wade Clemons and Ruby Freeman are among the fi rst elders

to greet Honey. Check out those pink tennis shoes on Honey. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Small horses bring big benefi ts

donkey arrived. He was quick to buddy up to Flash.

“They want me to come inside, but I don’t want to leave Flash,” he said.

Kathy Broggy is the life enrichment director at The Courtyards. She knows it is important to keep seniors actively engaged with ani-mals.

“One of our elders grew up on a ranch and she really wanted to see some horses, so we took a group to the Shangri-La ranch and they had the best time,” she said. “Having (STAR) visit us means those who couldn’t make the trip to the ranch will get to enjoy time with the horse and donkey right here.”

Broggy says bringing outside resources into a memory care facility is a mission of The Courtyards. Family members said they appreciated the work by em-ployees to keep the elders in continuing contact with

animals and children.STAR is a nonprofi t that

helps people with disabili-ties ride and care for horses.

Next up: Anne Hart talks with

former Knox County Law

Director Charlie Maner.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ South Knox Sr. Center:

6729 Martel Lane

(865) 573-5843

8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Coordinator: Janet Word

Wednesday, Aug. 19:

7:30 a.m. free swim;

8:30 a.m. guitar lessons;

9 a.m. toenail trim (by

appointment), painting;

10 a.m. quilting; 11 a.m.

Water Peeps; noon

bridge; 12:30 p.m. iPad/

iPhone basics workshop.

Thursday, Aug. 20:

7:30 a.m. free swim; 9

a.m. Veterans Services,

water aerobics, South

Knox Opry; 10 a.m.

water Pilates; 12:15 p.m.

ballroom dance; 1 p.m.

Rook, water aerobics;

1:30 p.m. line dance; 2

p.m. water Pilates.

Friday, Aug. 21: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 8:45 a.m. se-

nior cardio fi tness; 9 a.m.

water aerobics; 10 a.m.

yoga; 11 a.m. SAIL exer-

cise, cards, Water Peeps;

noon Tai Chi practice;

1 p.m. water aerobics,

beginning art.

Monday, Aug. 24: 7:30

a.m. free swim; 9 a.m.


water Pilates; 11 a.m.

quilting, Water Peeps;

1 p.m. bridge, water

aerobics, gospel sing.

Tuesday, Aug. 25: 7:30

a.m. free swim; 8:45 a.m.

senior cardio fi tness,

dulcimer lessons; 9 a.m.


SAIL exercise, crafts/

beading; 11 a.m. Tai Chi

1; 12:30 p.m. Tai Chi 2;

1 p.m. pinochle, water

aerobics; 2 p.m. yoga.

■ One Call Club2247 Western Ave,

(865) 524-2786

8 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center611 Winona St.

(865) 523-1135

Monday - Friday 8 a.m.

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CALL TO ARTISTSCall to local artists by Envision Art Gallery

(Bearden Art District) to participate in “Art For The Holidays” show in November-December. Info: 438-4154; [email protected].

THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG. 30“The Wind in the Willows,” Knoxville

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

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 6Tickets on sale for Mabry-Hazen House

Boomsday, Bluegrass and Barbecue celebration, 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6. Info/tickets: mabryhazen.com or 522-8661.

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

Memories” show featuring Pat Boone and 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. Info/tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19Books Sandwiched In: “400 Things Cops Know:

Street-Smart Lessons for a Veteran Partrolman” by Adam Platinga, noon-1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center auditorium, 601 S. Gay St. Presented by Nate Allen, Deputy Chief of Police, city of Knoxville. Info: 215-8801.

Tennessee Shines: Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, AUG. 20An Evening with Al Wilson and Friends,

6:30-8:30 p.m., East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. Tickets: $50. Tickets not available at the door. Fundraiser for ETTAC’s Equipment ReUse and Loan Program. Info/tickets: Lois, 219-0130, or ettac.org.

Brown Bag Lecture: “The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau” by Dr. Aaron Astor, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Free. Info: 215-8824 or EastTNHistory.org.

Farragut High School’s Flagship 3140 Robotics Team open house, 6-7 p.m., Farragut High School CTE 303. Recruiting team members. Homeschoolers welcome. Info: Jane Skinner, [email protected].

Friends Across the Mountains Telethon to benefi t Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), 7-8 p.m., WBIR-TV Channel 10 in Knoxville. Donations: www.friendsofthesmokies.org; toll-free telethon hotline during broadcast.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 9-10 a.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family members with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 10:15-11:15 a.m., South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family members with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

“Water! Your plants are probably thirsty!” 6-7 p.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive. Speaker: Extension Master Gardener Jan Gangwer. Free and open to the public. Info: 966-6728.

FRIDAY, AUG. 21Applications due for Clarence Brown Theatre

general auditions, 10 a.m. Auditions for “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Titus Andronicus” are Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 22-23. Info packet/applications: clarencebrowntheatre.com/about-us/auditions.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 9-10 a.m., Karns Senior Center, 8042 Oak Ridge Highway. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family members with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

SATURDAY, AUG. 22Autism Family Fun and Safety Event, 10

a.m.-2 p.m., Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8029 Kingston Pike. Free and open to the public. Includes: art activities, free sensory-friendly dance and music mini-lessons, free autism safety information and autism ID kits, a book fair, story time and more. Info: artisticspectrum.org.

Family Fun Day, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Free and open to the public.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Info: feralfelinefriends.org.Military Genealogy, 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee

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

“So You Want to Start Anew ... Perennial Garden,” 10:30 a.m.-noon, Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Carolyn Kiser and Barbara Emery. Free and open to the public. Info: 588-8813 or knoxlib.org.

Urban Wilderness Bioblitz, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., meet at High Ground Park, 1001 Cherokee Trail. For students 10 and up. Free. Registration required. Info/registration: 430-4756 or [email protected].

“Working with Sound as a Facet of Revision” workshop, 1-3:30 p.m., Central UMC, 201 E. Third Ave. Presented by poet Jane Hicks. Cost: $35 for Knoxville Writers’ Guild/ $40 nonmembers. Info/registration: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/events.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUG. 22-23Auditions by the WordPlayers for “Oh Freedom

– The Story of the Underground Railroad,” Erin Presbyterian Church, 200 Lockett Road. Seeking one African-American male and one African-American female – adult actor/singers to play multiple roles. by appointment at Erin Presbyterian Church, 200 Lockett Rd. Audition appointment: 539-2490 or email [email protected]. Info: wordplayers.org.

SUNDAY, AUG. 23FocusFest Battle of the Bands, 3 p.m.,

Amphitheater at World’s Fair Park. Presented by the Focus Group Prison Ministries. Friendly band competition between Ridgepoint Church Praise Band, Brad Austin & Friends of Knoxlife and The Ridge Church Praise Band.

MONDAY, AUG. 24Computer Workshops: Word 2007 II, 5:30

p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Opening reception for Ewing Gallery Permanent Collection Exhibition, 4:30-7 p.m., 1715 Volunteer Blvd. Info: ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

“The Alexander Technique, an Introduction,” 1:30-3:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $35. Preregistration with confi rmation required. Info/registration: 387-7600; AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, AUG. 24-25Samsung Galaxy Phone/Tablet Basics for

Seniors, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 218-3375; in person at town hall.

TUESDAY, AUG. 25Computer Workshops: Library Online, 5:30

p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 9-10 a.m., William C. Tallent VA Outpatient Clinic, 8033 Ray Mears Blvd. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family members with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

“Normal Aging vs. Dementia,” 11 a.m.-noon, Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/RSVP: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1

p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Lunch: $12. RSVP deadline: Monday, Aug. 24. Info/RSVP: 983-3740.

Tennessee Shines: Kristin Diable, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, AUG. 27“So You Want to Start Anew ... Perennial

Garden,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Carolyn Kiser and Barbara Emery. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, AUG. 27-29The Picky Chick Fall Consignment Sale,

Knoxville Expo Center, 5441 Clinton Highway. Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday (1/2 off sale). Info: thepickychick.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, AUG. 28-29Knoxville Jazz Festival, Bijou Theater, 803 S. Gay

St. Featuring: Benny Golson, Manuel Rocheman, Keith L. Brown, and more. Info/schedule: knoxjazzfest.org.

SATURDAY, AUG. 29Downtown Dragon, Drum and Paddle Dragon

Boat Race, 8 a.m., Volunteer Landing. Registration fee: $1,250 for corporate teams, $900 for nonprofi t organization teams. Proceeds go to Tennessee Clean Water Network. Info: tcwn.org.

Free concert by Oak Ridge Community Orchestra, 2 p.m., First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge, 1101 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Donations appreciated. Info: OakRidgeCommunityOrchestra.com.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info:

feralfelinefriends.org.“Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique,”

11:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $75. Preregistration with confi rmation required. Info/registration: 387-7600; AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

SUNDAY, AUG. 30Blues Challenge competition, 5 p.m., Barleys

Taproom & Pizzeria, 128 W. Broadway Ave., Maryville. Winner advances to the International Blues Challenge, Jan. 26-30, in Memphis. Deadline to enter: Aug. 22. Info: 288-0672.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, AUG. 31-SEPT 1AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Valley

Grove Baptist Church, 9000 Sevierville Pike. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2Tennessee Shines: The Lonetones with poet Brian

Griffi n, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4Opening reception for “Conversations: Portraits

& Other Work” by Emily Taylor, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit displayed in the Balcony gallery Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; theemporiumcenter.com.

Opening reception for “Fine Arts Blount” exhibit, 5-9 p.m., The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit on display Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; knoxalliance.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 4-5Biodiversity Hike to Mount Le Conte. Cost:

$275. Includes guided hike up Alum Cave Bluff Trail, picnic lunch, evening sunset program about the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) at Clifftops, handmade note cards from Discover Life in America (DLIA) and lodging with dinner and breakfast. Info/registration: Todd, [email protected] or 430-4757.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 Financial Workshop: understand Social Security

and maximize its benefi ts, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley from COFFE (Community Outreach For Financial Education) Registration required. Info/registration: 777-1750.

Opening reception for “The Love Of Art” exhibit by members of the Tennessee Art Association, 5-8 p.m., Envision Art Gallery (Bearden Art District) 4050 Sutherland Ave. On display through Sept. 30. Info: [email protected] or 438-4154.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9Tennessee Shines: Handsome & the Humbles, 7

p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11“How to Use Facebook for Seniors,” 10 a.m.-

noon, 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.

Legacy Parks Foundation Luncheon, Holston River Farm at the head of the Tennessee River. Speaker: Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times bestselling author of “Wild.” Info/reservations: legacyparks.org or 525-2585.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12Second Saturday Concerts at The Cove: The

Hitmen, 6-8 p.m., The Cove at Concord Park, 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. Info: 215-4579.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, SEPT. 14-15“Samsung Galaxy Phone/Tablet Basics

for Seniors,” 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Info/registration: 218-3375; www.townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16“Pinterest/Instagram/Twitter for Seniors,”

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.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19Sevier Soiree, Marble Springs, 1220 W. Governor

John Sevier Highway. Tickets: $50; includes: live music, dinner, silent auction. Info: 573-5508.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 19-20Country Market, Historic Ramsey House, 2614

Thorn Grove Pike. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Arts, crafts, antiques, classic car cruise-in, Model T club, music and more. Admission: $5; 12 and under free. Info: ramseyhouse.org.

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