4509 Doris Circle 37918 (865) 922-4136 [email protected][email protected]EDITOR Sandra Clark [email protected]ADVERTISING SALES Debbie Moss [email protected]Shopper-News is a member of KNS Media Group, published weekly at 4509 Doris Circle, Knoxville, TN, and distributed to 8,314 homes in Powell. NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ IN THIS ISSUE Ask the prof ... Looking for the perfect gift for a high school grad? Walters State Community College associate professor of history Tim Holder has just the book for a soon-to-be firstyear college freshman. ➤ See page A-3 ‘You get what you pay for’ There is an old Vulcan proverb that says “Only Nixon could go to China.” Well, what was true on “Star Trek” is true in Knox Vegas, Jake Mabe says. County Mayor Tim Bur- chett has said that if County Commission approves a property tax increase to fund Superintendent Dr. Jim Mc- Intyre’s budget, he’ll veto it. Jake thinks Burchett is missing his moment. ➤ See page A-4 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow | twitter.com/shoppernewsnow POWELL VOL. 51 NO. 20 A great community newspaper May 14, 2012 Sandra Clark A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West A5 Jim Tumblin A6 Faith A7 Schools A9, 10 Business A11 Index E. Emory Rd. Norris FWY. 131 E. Emory Rd. 131 Maynardville HWY. 33 Immediate appointments available. Timothy Butcher, P.T ., CSCS Physical Therapist and Clinic Director 7228 Norris Freeway Knoxville, TN 37918 377-3176 • 377-3187 (fax) Check us out on Facebook. 922-4780 American owned since 1958 Quality work at competitive prices hallscleaners.net 7032 Maynardville Hwy. • M-F 7-6 • Sat. 8-3 Let us care for your wedding gown… before & after the wedding. Pressed, dry cleaned, boxed & preserved. Preservation starting at $85. ‘The Sav age Dilemma’ coming to Powell Playhouse By Betty Bean Nita Buell Black, who taught high school English and theater for 52 years (35 at Powell High School) is the founding director of Powell Playhouse. She listens to her in- ner voice when she is preparing to produce a play, no matter when or where it sounds off. Last year, Black was starting the casting process for “The Curi- ous Savage” – a dark, ‘50s comedy about a bunch of patients in a Mas- sachusetts sanitorium who want to help out a new arrival, a widow whose greedy relatives are trying to get hold of the fortune left to her by her recently-departed husband. It was to be the playhouse’s first pro- duction. Black was thinking about the task ahead when she stopped by Vaughn’s Pharmacy and ran into Carolyn Wells, who works there two days a week. The inner voice spoke, clear as a bell. “I discovered her in Vaughn’s drugstore, and I said, ‘You are Mrs. Paddy,’ She’s outgoing, friendly, re- sponsive to people, always laughing and loves to have fun.” Mrs. Paddy isn’t the main char- acter, but she has an interesting quirk: “Her husband told her to shut up 20 years ago, and she hadn’t spoken since,” Black said. “But there was something about the word ‘hate’ that she tuned in on.” Wells takes the cue like a pro and snaps into character: “I hate onions, bunions, banks, bigots, winters, splinters, haste, waste, rust, dust, glue, grease, grime, mud and blood.” She was a smash hit and is set to reprise the role in the next Pow- ell Playhouse production, “The Time capsule opening May 16 Friends of Powell Elemen- tary School will open a time capsule buried 25 years ago this week. After opening the capsule and examining the contents, the staff and students will bury another capsule to be opened in 25 years. A public reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Wednes- day, May 16, at the school for anyone who wants to come by and view the contents. Betsi Vesser, technology assistant at PES, is handing public infor- mation for the time capsule. Performance dates set Powell Playhouse will present the comedy “The Savage Dilemma” on Thursday through Sunday, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, at Jubilee Banquet Facility. Advance tickets only are for the dinner and play on June 7 and 8 at $25. Other tickets for the four performances may be purchased at the door for $10. Menu for the buffet dinner includes turkey breast with dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, tossed salad and strawberries and cream. Info: Mona at 947-7428. F riends sustain ‘Mrs. Paddy ’ Carolyn Wells stands outside the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Photo by S. Clark Savage Dilemma,” a sequel to last year’s play, which debuts June 7. But things got pretty dicey for Wells over the past year. “We have five original cast mem- bers returning in their roles, and Mrs. Paddy is one of them,” Black said. “Fairly soon after the play ended last year, Carolyn went to the doctor and discovered that she had ovarian cancer. It was quite ad- vanced. When I visited her in the hospital, I was shocked. We had printed this little card that said we were going to be doing a sequel, and I told her, ‘You have got to be around to be Mrs. Paddy. If you can’t do this last play, we’re going to scrap it.’ ” Wells, a 1960 Powell High School graduate (her last name was Ben- nett before she married her high school sweetheart, David Wells), had taken the part-time job after retiring from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She said she wants to work, “to try to keep my brain cells from dying.” (Black puts it differently – “In re- tirement, your butt gets bigger and your brain gets smaller.”) Wells has had a hard year – two surgeries, five hospitalizations, che- motherapy, a bout of kidney failure – but her last CT scan is clean of growths or tumors, and she is ready for her close-up, even though she had to postpone her final surgery so she could make opening night. “I’m scheduled for surgery June 12, and I’m praying that I can have a reversal of the colostomy,” Wells said. “Hopefully this surgery will end this part of my life’s journey. I want everybody’s prayers.” “All through this we kept saying, ‘You’re in this last play,’ ” Black said. Her doctor wanted to schedule her surgery for May 3, but Wells re- sisted. “I said, ‘I’ve got to be in a play, go to Washington, D.C., and be in a wedding.’ ” She was sustained during this hard year by the loving care of her husband, David, and by a group of Class of 1960 classmates with whom she’s been getting together for dinners and special occasions for the past 25 years. “It started out being social, but over the years, it’s turned out to be a support group. Death of spouses, divorce, births of grandchildren – it’s been such a wonderful support group. When they found out last July, Pat Stans- berry took charge and they all wanted to do something. Those who are retired said, ‘I will sit with her all day after chemo so her husband can go to work.’ Others prepared dinners. They saw me through six treatments, and I had a three or four course meal every night at 6. They were there for eight solid months.” On her 70th birthday, Wells threw herself a “surprise” birthday party at the Lions Club and invited her caregivers to a brunch catered by Kelly Payne and Susan Prince. There were linen tablecloths, fresh flowers and all the fancy breakfast trimmings. “I welcomed everyone to my birthday party and said, ‘I’ve de- ceived you. This is not to celebrate my birthday. This to celebrate each and every one of you for what you did to make this part of my journey better. You visited me, transported me, cooked for me and cared for me. You’ve seen me with my bald head, held my head when I was sick and waited on me as if I were a queen.’ “Now, you tell me that God’s not good.” Powell Elementary School principal Reba Lane walks with Superin- tendent Dr. Jim McIntyre, County Commissioner R. Larry Smith and school board mem- ber Kim Sepesi as they toured PES last Monday. The most recent construction at the school happened in 1988 when Earl Hoffmeister was superintendent and school board members included Steve Hill, A.L. Lotts, Harry Tindell and Mike Padgett. Photo by S. Clark Lane outlines construction needs at Powell Elementary By Sandra Clark Powell Elementary School will get $1.25 million for building up- grades if County Commission funds the school board’s budget, but Commissioner R. Larry Smith wants more specifics. Smith toured the campus with school board member Kim Sepesi and Superintendent Dr. Jim Mc- Intyre last Monday. McIntyre said details will be worked out by facilities supervisor Doug Dillingham and principal Reba Lane, but the improvements will not eliminate the portable classrooms at Powell Elementary. Lane said the school is land- locked, but the school system recently acquired an adjoining lot for more parking. She said all second graders are housed in por- table classrooms, along with two CDC classes, one fifth grade, art and music. While the portable buildings are equipped for restrooms, the plumbing is not connected so the students must walk into the school building for breaks. McIntyre said the $1.25 mil- lion would make Powell Elemen- tary more functional and a “safe, healthy learning environment.” In response to a question from Smith, Lane said physical educa- tion classes and school assemblies are held in the gym with kids get- ting P.E. twice in an 8-day rota- tion. For assemblies, she breaks the student body into three groups. Powell Elementary has about 980 students. Fourth of July Powell Business and Profes- sional Association and the Powell Lions Club will team to bring a sun-filled, fun-filled day to Powell for the Fourth of July. 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Powell Playhouse By Betty Bean
Nita Buell Black, who taught high school English and theater for 52 years (35 at Powell High School) is the founding director of Powell Playhouse. She listens to her in-ner voice when she is preparing to produce a play, no matter when or where it sounds off.
Last year, Black was starting the casting process for “The Curi-ous Savage” – a dark, ‘50s comedy about a bunch of patients in a Mas-sachusetts sanitorium who want to help out a new arrival, a widow whose greedy relatives are trying to get hold of the fortune left to her by her recently-departed husband. It was to be the playhouse’s fi rst pro-duction.
Black was thinking about the task ahead when she stopped by Vaughn’s Pharmacy and ran into Carolyn Wells, who works there two days a week.
The inner voice spoke, clear as a bell.
“I discovered her in Vaughn’s drugstore, and I said, ‘You are Mrs. Paddy,’ She’s outgoing, friendly, re-sponsive to people, always laughing and loves to have fun.”
Mrs. Paddy isn’t the main char-acter, but she has an interesting quirk:
“Her husband told her to shut up 20 years ago, and she hadn’t spoken since,” Black said. “But there was something about the word ‘hate’ that she tuned in on.”
Wells takes the cue like a pro and snaps into character:
“I hate onions, bunions, banks, bigots, winters, splinters, haste, waste, rust, dust, glue, grease, grime, mud and blood.”
She was a smash hit and is set to reprise the role in the next Pow-ell Playhouse production, “The
Time capsule opening May 16
Friends of Powell Elemen-tary School will open a time capsule buried 25 years ago this week. After opening the capsule and examining the contents, the staff and students will bury another capsule to be opened in 25 years.
A public reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Wednes-day, May 16, at the school for anyone who wants to come by and view the contents. Betsi Vesser, technology assistant at PES, is handing public infor-mation for the time capsule.
Performance dates setPowell Playhouse will
present the comedy “The
Savage Dilemma” on Thursday
through Sunday, June 7, 8, 9
and 10, at Jubilee Banquet
Facility.
Advance tickets only are for
the dinner and play on June 7
and 8 at $25. Other tickets for
the four performances may be
purchased at the door for $10.
Menu for the buff et dinner
includes turkey breast with
dressing, mashed potatoes,
green beans, rolls, tossed salad
and strawberries and cream.
Info: Mona at 947-7428.
Friends sustain ‘Mrs. Paddy’
Carolyn Wells stands outside the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Photo by S. Clark
Savage Dilemma,” a sequel to last year’s play, which debuts June 7. But things got pretty dicey for Wells over the past year.
“We have fi ve original cast mem-bers returning in their roles, and Mrs. Paddy is one of them,” Black said. “Fairly soon after the play ended last year, Carolyn went to the doctor and discovered that she had ovarian cancer. It was quite ad-vanced. When I visited her in the hospital, I was shocked. We had printed this little card that said we were going to be doing a sequel, and I told her, ‘You have got to be around to be Mrs. Paddy. If you can’t do this last play, we’re going to scrap it.’ ”
Wells, a 1960 Powell High School graduate (her last name was Ben-nett before she married her high school sweetheart, David Wells), had taken the part-time job after retiring from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She said she wants to work, “to try to keep my brain cells from dying.”
(Black puts it differently – “In re-tirement, your butt gets bigger and your brain gets smaller.”)
Wells has had a hard year – two surgeries, fi ve hospitalizations, che-
motherapy, a bout of kidney failure – but her last CT scan is clean of growths or tumors, and she is ready for her close-up, even though she had to postpone her fi nal surgery so she could make opening night.
“I’m scheduled for surgery June 12, and I’m praying that I can have a reversal of the colostomy,” Wells said. “Hopefully this surgery will end this part of my life’s journey. I want everybody’s prayers.”
“All through this we kept saying, ‘You’re in this last play,’ ” Black said.
Her doctor wanted to schedule her surgery for May 3, but Wells re-sisted.
“I said, ‘I’ve got to be in a play, go to Washington, D.C., and be in a wedding.’ ”
She was sustained during this hard year by the loving care of her husband, David, and by a group of Class of 1960 classmates with whom she’s been getting together for dinners and special occasions for the past 25 years.
“It started out being social, but over the years, it’s turned out to be a support group.
Death of spouses, divorce, births of grandchildren – it’s been such a
wonderful support group. When they found out last July, Pat Stans-berry took charge and they all wanted to do something. Those who are retired said, ‘I will sit with her all day after chemo so her husband can go to work.’ Others prepared dinners. They saw me through six treatments, and I had a three or four course meal every night at 6. They were there for eight solid months.”
On her 70th birthday, Wells threw herself a “surprise” birthday party at the Lions Club and invited her caregivers to a brunch catered by Kelly Payne and Susan Prince. There were linen tablecloths, fresh fl owers and all the fancy breakfast trimmings.
“I welcomed everyone to my birthday party and said, ‘I’ve de-ceived you. This is not to celebrate my birthday. This to celebrate each and every one of you for what you did to make this part of my journey better. You visited me, transported me, cooked for me and cared for me. You’ve seen me with my bald head, held my head when I was sick and waited on me as if I were a queen.’
“Now, you tell me that God’s not good.”
Powell Elementary
School principal
Reba Lane walks
with Superin-
tendent Dr. Jim
McIntyre, County
Commissioner R.
Larry Smith and
school board mem-
ber Kim Sepesi as
they toured PES last
Monday.
The most recent
construction at the
school happened
in 1988 when Earl
Hoff meister was
superintendent
and school board
members included
Steve Hill, A.L. Lotts,
Harry Tindell and
Mike Padgett.Photo by S. Clark
Lane outlines construction needs at Powell ElementaryBy Sandra Clark
Powell Elementary School will get $1.25 million for building up-grades if County Commission funds the school board’s budget, but Commissioner R. Larry Smith wants more specifi cs.
Smith toured the campus with school board member Kim Sepesi and Superintendent Dr. Jim Mc-Intyre last Monday.
McIntyre said details will be worked out by facilities supervisor Doug Dillingham and principal Reba Lane, but the improvements will not eliminate the portable classrooms at Powell Elementary.
Lane said the school is land-locked, but the school system recently acquired an adjoining lot for more parking. She said all second graders are housed in por-
table classrooms, along with two CDC classes, one fi fth grade, art and music.
While the portable buildings are equipped for restrooms, the plumbing is not connected so the students must walk into the school building for breaks.
McIntyre said the $1.25 mil-lion would make Powell Elemen-tary more functional and a “safe,
healthy learning environment.”In response to a question from
Smith, Lane said physical educa-tion classes and school assemblies are held in the gym with kids get-ting P.E. twice in an 8-day rota-tion.
For assemblies, she breaks the student body into three groups.
Powell Elementary has about 980 students.
Fourth of JulyPowell Business and Profes-
sional Association and the Powell Lions Club will team to bring a sun-fi lled, fun-fi lled day to Powell for the Fourth of July. The Lions Club will sponsor the annual parade down Emory Road, while the PBPA will host entertainment, concessions and games in the Scarbro fi eld near Halftime Pizza.
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After touring Powell El-ementary School with R. Larry Smith and Kim Sepesi last week, one thing jumped out. The $1.25 million in the school board’s budget is a start but not enough to fi x the problems at the school.
Interest picks up in North Sector PlanCounty Commissioner R. Larry Smith listens to Powell resident
Joe Elkins during an MPC-sponsored forum on the North Sec-
tor Plan now under development. Planner Mike Reynolds said
comments included support for mixed use development, now
at the old Powell Airport, to be extended westward where me-
dium density residential zoning is proposed. Mixed use would
allow offi ce and commercial development.
Powell Elementary needs more
I was at the school board meeting a decade ago when then board member Diane Dozier suggested that Pow-ell Elementary be moved to the Powell Middle School building and Knox County Schools buy the old Levi’s plant for a new middle school.
Dozier was squelched by then Mayor Mike Rags-dale who said the county really needed to put a jobs-producing business back in the Levi’s building. Maybe, but Temple Baptist jumped on the real estate, convert-ing the building to Crown College, a real asset to Pow-ell but certainly off the tax rolls.
The county then spent money to renovate and ex-pand Powell Middle School, and Dozier moved on to sup-porting a brand new build-ing for Brickey-McCloud.
Somehow in the shuffl e, Powell Elementary was left behind.
The school’s gym and cafeteria are inadequate for the almost 1,000 students enrolled there. The zone has been shrunk to west of Cen-tral Avenue Pike. And added capacity at Adrian Burnett in Halls and Shannondale in Fountain City just won’t relieve overcrowding.
That said, parents and friends of Powell Elemen-tary School should support the school board budget. The opportunity for new technology and physical plant upgrades comes along every 20 years or so. Let’s grab what we can get now and then continue to lobby for what the kids here really need.
■ Powell Book ClubThe group meets at 3
p.m. each fi rst Monday at the Powell Branch Library to discuss a book, usually working with a study guide. “That’s better than trying to do it without one,” said Viola Schneider, “when we ask, ‘Well, how did you like this book?’”
So the group is open to anyone interested in join-ing. The name of each month’s book is posted at the Powell library, and actu-ally reading the book is not
Book ClubMartha Moore, Betty McNeilly and Viola Schneider attend the
book club meeting at the Powell Branch Library. Photos by S. Clark
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required. Betty McNeilly, a retired educator, confessed that she came without read-ing: “That did not prevent me from expressing opin-ions, however.”
Martha Moore, a 41-year Powell resident, keeps ev-erything (somewhat) or-ganized. At least, she’s got the name of everyone who has ever attended. She says Joan Falcon founded the book club in May 2007. “She’s off somewhere in an RV,” said Moore.
Readers come from far (Clinton) and near. Retired teacher Virginia Rains, El-len James, Katherine Smith and Joan Davis are regu-lars.
“We need some men!” said one of the women as the others laughed.
Books range from thought-provoking to just-for-fun. The book for June is “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfi eld. So read it (or not) and come to the book club. It’s fun.
■ Lunch with Charlie D.The Baker Center at UT
will host a luncheon 11:30 to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 17, in honor of political cartoon-ist and Powell guy Charlie Daniel.
Two of Charlie’s biggest fans are Sens. Howard Bak-er and Nancy Kassebaum Baker. A small exhibit of Daniel’s work will be dis-played in the Rotunda.
The cost of lunch is $15/person and is payable at the door with cash or check. State any dietary restric-tions when making your reservation. Call 974-0931 or email [email protected]. The deadline to regis-ter is May 14 or until full, so don’t delay.
■ Lunch withS. ClarkOops! I’m skipping my
usual Powell lunch this week in order to pursue “The Fugate Challenge” (see page 4). Will return on Tues-day, May 22, to Aubrey’s at noon where the folks from the Fourth of July event will join us. You come, too!
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■ Powell Branch Li-brary has three programs for kids: Tuesday, May 15, 3:30 p.m., reading roundup for grades K-2. Wednesday, May 16, 10:30 a.m., Baby Bookworms, for infants to
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There is an old Vulcan proverb that says “Only Nixon could go to China.”
Well, what was true on “Star Trek” is true in Knox Vegas.
County Mayor Tim Burchett made public what most of us knew. If County Commission approves a property tax increase to fund Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre’s budget, he’ll veto it.
Burchett is missing his moment.
Look, none of us likes new taxes. Heck, I still have my “Cas Walker for President” T-shirt hanging in the closet.
But the Vulcans were right. Only Richard Nixon, the Cold Warrior, could shake hands with Chou and Mao in ’72 and get away with it. Heck, it sealed the deal on his re-election. And only Burchett, who has earned his belt-tightening reputa-tion honestly, could get away with raising property taxes.
I’m reading Robert A. Caro’s four-volume opus on a man I’ve never particularly liked, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Told early on not to push for what be-came the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he’d waste the political capital earned after JFK’s assassination, Johnson said, “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?”
Times are tough. Belts should be buckled; bloat should be belched. The problem is Burchett is go-ing about it the wrong way.
A friend of mine, who is as Republican as Ronald Reagan, said, “Burchett’s going to keep cutting on parks and schools until there aren’t any left.”
Lord knows Burchett’s predecessor, Mike Rags-dale, had his problems. But, I’ll tell you this: in some ways he’s looking better in the rearview.
A couple of weeks ago, Emily Shane and I sang at the Halls Senior Center, built during the Ragsdale era. Seventy-seven smiling
You get what you pay for
faces showed up. (And, nope, I didn’t pay ’em.) Next door, I heard a group of seniors exercising. John “Dee” Myers told me three or four years ago he goes up there every Wednesday night for supper. And he was crying tears of joy when he said it.
Ragsdale didn’t and Burchett hasn’t learned another lesson from Nix-on. The Quaker balanced his administration with, for example, speechwrit-ers Pat Buchanan (on the right) and William Safire (on the left), intelligent men both. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (liberal) and John Connally (conserva-tive) both served in his cabinet.
Unfortunately, Nixon also had Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean. Ragsdale had Arms, Finch and Werner. Burchett has Dean Rice, Big Sexy and the scandal-plagued fraternity brother that lasted five minutes.
There’s so much I like about Tim Burchett. His laid-back attitude, his fist-bumpin’, “aw, shucks” persona and, yes, his de-sire to pay down the debt. And yet. And yet.
Last week, France rejected belt-tightening President Nicolas Sar-kozy for the “I’m raising taxes on those that make over a million” Francois Hollande. Well, this ain’t France and most of us probably think that’s a good thing. France may come to regret that choice. I don’t know.
But I can’t help but remember something my step-daddy told me when I was a teenage audiophile trying to decide between a Sony stereo system and a knockoff brand.
“Son,” he said, “you get what you pay for.”
Neither Knox city nor county mayor is recom-mending a tax hike in their 2012-2013 budget, but the issues are different for each.
Mayor Burchett has vowed a veto should county commission enact the re-quested 35 cent property tax hike sought by the school board. He has not been as outspoken as to whether he would oppose a referendum to increase the sales tax for schools. On the other hand, if the requested property tax hike were scaled back to a lesser amount such as 15 or 20 cents, he has not indicated his stand, but one might safely infer that his opposition would continue, making 7 votes needed to enact the tax regardless of the amount instead of the normal 6 votes.
One vote to pass it and one to override a mayoral veto a week or two later.
If the commission should go the sales tax ref-erendum route, Burchett might not veto it since it al-lows the people to decide, but the question remains whether he would be neu-tral in the campaign to pass it or would he urge voters to reject it. Additional fac-tors for school advocates to consider are whether they are willing to scale back the 35 cent request to a lesser amount or go for a refer-endum on sales tax which
would not produce as much as 35 cents.
It also runs the risk of defeat. It would appear on the November ballot when the presidential election is being held along with pos-sible city and county charter amendments. Voter turnout will be very high and Knox county is likely to vote for Romney over Obama by a 60-40 margin. Burchett did recommend an increase for schools, but far less than what the superintendent and school board want.
People should realize that Tim Burchett is a very frugal person in both his personal and public live. There is no smoke and mir-rors when it comes to Bur-chett. He and Mayor Rog-ero, who are quite different in many ways, are also very congenial and cooperative. Rogero will support Obama for a second term and Bur-chett will back Romney, but that will not interfere with them working together.
For Rogero there is no call for a tax hike. In fact, under the city charter she does not have a veto anyway, even
if the council pushed one. There is no danger council would ever raise taxes with-out a mayoral request.
Whatever city coun-cil does is what happens. However, one wonders if she plans to go four years as mayor without a city tax hike. If so, well and good, but it will get dicey by her fourth year when she seeks a second term and is chal-lenged by an opponent on whether she would raise taxes in a second term.
Odd numbered years for the city are when the mayor or part of council seek elec-tion. If Rogero goes four years without a property tax hike on top of the past seven years without a tax hike, there is a strong possi-bility there would be one in 2016 when she starts a sec-ond term or there is a new mayor as it means 11 years without any city property tax increase.
Current council mem-bers will be less enthused over a city tax hike next year when 5 of the 9 members are up for re-election (none term limited). In 2015, of course, the Mayor plus 4 council members are up for re-election which is not a good time to seek a tax hike.
Working in favor of a city tax hike over the next 5 years will be city pen-sion costs (still not as bad as county pension costs)
unless council adopts and the voters approve major changes for new employees to halt the fi nancial drain on the budget. The pend-ing mayoral hybrid pension plan takes a chance on mar-ket conditions whereas the 401(k) plan advocated by some council members is fi xed in its cost. It would go on the November 2012 bal-lot when the Obama/Rom-ney contest assures a large voter turnout.
■ Federal Judge Thomas Varlan has set a hearing on this Thursday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. at the Howard Baker Federal Building in downtown Knoxville on the Wellington Drive lawsuit. The issue is whether to issue an injunction against TVA cutting more trees under power lines until the mer-its of the entire lawsuit are heard and decided.
■ The hearing is open to the public. Knoxville attor-ney Don Vowell represents residents and faces a battery of TVA lawyers who are not affected by upcoming TVA layoffs.
■ Meanwhile current TVA board member and former community activist Neil McBride of Oak Ridge has spent the past week and this week in France hiking with former TVA general counsel Maureen Dunn.
■ Next week, more on city budget.
Halls High principal Mark
Duff listens as Powell High
principal Ken Dunlap talks
with County Commissioner
R. Larry Smith about needs
at area schools.
Smith and school board
member Kim Sepesi met
with principals last week at
Powell Middle School.
Dunlap said he must close
the PHS library for nine
days four times a year so
students can take comput-
erized tests.
“By 2014-15, all year-end
tests will be on computer,”
he said. Without wireless
technology and a handheld
device for each student, he
joked that he would have to
close the library “for about
a year and a half” so all
1,400 students could take
their exams.
Photo by S. Clark
Budgets have similarities, diff erences
Accepting ‘The Fugate Challenge’By Sandra Clark
Last week at the Fountain City Business and Professional Associa-tion, Indya Kincannon, Virginia Babb and Buzz Thomas advocated for fund-ing the school board’s budget. And once again, County Commissioner R. Larry Smith asked folks to “let me know what you think.”
And, in the midst of this, associa-tion board member John Fugate said if Knox County Schools could enroll the kids who now attend private schools and are homeschooled, the
test scores would increase in a fl ash.As one who supports the school
board’s budget, I invited Fugate to go with me to the school of his choice to see the needs. John accepted.
So Kincannon has arranged for us to visit a couple of schools this week.
John is Everyman on this issue. He’s smart. He owns property and would be hit with a property tax increase. He has grandchildren who attend Knox County Schools. And he’s a former educator who left the profes-sion to enter banking and is now a
branch bank manager.
The Fugate Challenge is risky, because John may come away still convinced that the tax increase is not needed. But I’m willing to fi nd out, and whatever the verdict, I’ll share it here next week.
John Fugate
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Tennessee sports fans come in all sizes, shapes and colors. They also vary in enthusiasm.
Some are seasonal at best, never more than lukewarm. They check to see who won.
At the other end of the spectrum are those who wor-ship the Volunteers with Ten-nessee tattoos and orange overalls, even on Thursdays. Just win, baby, no rules, whatever it takes.
This passionate peak of fandom wouldn’t miss a game for their fi rst cousin’s funeral. They will lose sleep over Ak-ron and Georgia State. Some are radicals. They buy tickets
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for stadium seats but won’t sit down.
In between are the many, many thousands who faith-fully follow the Vols, root for their success in all sports and stay steady through the decades. Uncle Lee Roy Jarvis has seen 289 con-secutive home games and
hasn’t fi red a single coach.Of course these fans jump
up and yell. They applaud ef-fort and excellence wherever they see it, including aca-demics. Some are linked to history as third- or fourth-generation fans. Some have heard of Chuck Rohe and Ray Bussard. Some are aware there were baskets be-fore Bruce.
Some remember Bill Bates from Farragut High and Jim-my England from Holston and Ron Widby from Ful-ton or even A.W. Davis from Rutledge. They know what Todd Helton did before Den-ver. They have heard about Richmond Flowers’ courage in choosing Tennessee over Alabama. They know why Chip Kell is in the Hall of
Fame. They remember what Al Wilson did as a linebacker and leader.
Some with tunnel vision measure fans by their level of donations, by skyboxes and buildings that bear their names. What you do with what you have might be more credible.
It is possible to be a su-percharged fan, have loads of fun and retain at least a de-gree of dignity. Case in point: Linda Penny.
The entry to her Nashville home is orange and white. Her living room and din-ing room have orange walls. Her orange clothes are in the orange closet. Some of her orange shoes hide there. The den is the offi cial Ten-
nessee room. Her lawyer husband Bill just smiles.
Linda learned about football from her father in Paducah, Ky. They went to high school games. Consider-ably later, a dear friend with 50-yard-line tickets invited her to an autumn Saturday at Vanderbilt.
“Pretty soon I was yelling and doing my own coach-ing when two very properly dressed women asked that I not make so much noise.”
Linda was not blocking their view, just cheering in good fan fashion.
“I got ticked and educat-ed them about football. Did they know the work those guys put in every day, did they know the hours, did
they understand what the heck was going on?
“My friend laughed and said my husband should take me to UT.”
Bingo. As the old saying goes, the rest is history.
Bill got his law degree. He and Linda have been seeing the Vols since the mid ’80s. They have season tickets for football and basketball. For years, they have raised funds for the athletic department. They are part of a tailgate group that sometimes grows to a hundred.
They really enjoy the Vols. They are dedicated fans. There is a hint of proof, a touch of orange at their house.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected].
By Betty Bean Kevin Murphy spent his
childhood in Winter Haven, Fla., but no summer was complete without a visit to the Murphy Farm in Knox-ville, which was settled by his ancestors in 1797.
Then he grew up and be-came an IT architect who created technology roadmaps and designs for putting big systems together. It’s a high-ly portable skill that pretty much allows him to live where he chooses. In 2005, he was living in Dayton, Ohio, and got to thinking about where he wanted to put down roots.
Australia sounded good, and he went down to check it out. While he was there, he had an epiphany:
“I could live anywhere in the world, working from home, and decided Knoxville felt more like home than Aus-tralia did.”
So he started making
plans to renovate and move into the two-story farmhouse that a carpenter named Ed-ward Legg built for Hugh Murphy around 1841 at what is now the corner of Murphy Road and Washington Pike.
He learned all he could about the house’s history – for example, the Norfolk & Southern railroad track that bisects the side yard was laid in 1877. The easement agree-ment called for the railroad to plant some apple trees to mitigate the noise.
“They never planted them,” Kevin said. “I’m sure the ancestors were not pleased. They didn’t get paid for this stuff.”
He had the house gutted to the bare walls and restored, paying meticulous attention to detail and preservation. The actual work took from May to December 2009.
Recently, he invited the neighbors over for a Sunday
Visiting the Murphy Farm
Kevin Murphy (center) shows James McMillan (left) and Scott Starbuck around the Murphy Farm springhouse. Photos by Betty Bean
Kevin Murphy in front of his 1841 farmhouse.
afternoon visit. A couple or three dozen of them made the acquaintance of Murphy’s Jack Russell/Bassett Hound Koda as they toured the big house and the seven historic outbuildings before sitting down for lemonade and con-versation on the wraparound front porch.
The entire Murphy Farm consists of 192 acres, and the 50 acres where the house stands are Kevin’s. He plans to place a conservation ease-ment on his portion of the land in 2013. His intention is to keep that parcel farmland forever. He says he hopes that other family members decide to do the same, in time.
“I’m really blessed that my
ancestors and family kept the place together and have con-tinued taking care of it,” he said.
The entire family has agreed to list the entire Mur-phy Farm on the National Register of Historical Places, and Kevin is working on the nomination and hopes to submit it in June.
“This will document the signifi cance of the farm in the community and infl uence future federal projects in the area,” he said.
He is concerned about how the city’s plans to widen Washington Pike from the I-640 interchange to Murphy Road will impact Murphy Farm, and he has written the
city’s director of engineering, Jim Hagerman, to remind city offi cials of the special re-quirements, ask for informa-tion and request that the ru-ral nature of the easternmost portion of the road project be respected.
“I would like to make
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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin
The John Smith family provided the land for the fi rst grade school in Fountain City, the predecessor to Smithwood Grammar School. They also provided land for their home church, Smithwood (formerly Adair’s Creek) Baptist, which has long been a bulwark in the commu-nity. The community in which they lived long and productive lives as-sumed their name, Smithwood.
Mary Adair, daughter of Foun-tain City’s patriarch John Adair and his wife, Eleanor, married Robert Christian, son of promi-nent Sullivan County resident and founder of Kingsport Col. Gilbert Christian. On Aug. 2, 1819, their daughter Mariah (1802-1883) mar-ried John Smith.
Smith, a harness maker by trade, was born on Feb. 2, 1795, in Culpep-per County, Va. He was living in the Beaver Dam settlement but pur-chased 474 acres for $1,000 from Mariah’s grandfather Adair’s plat on Dec. 2, 1820. He farmed the land for many years and John and Mari-ah raised their nine children there.
He built his imposing hand-made brick house on the Tazewell and Jacksboro Turnpike in 1839 in the Flemish Bond pattern. Simple but elegant woodwork highlighted the fi replaces in the parlor, the liv-ing room, the four bedrooms and the kitchen. The elegant doors in each room were Christian doors (the paneling formed a cross and an open Bible).
The parlor was used exclusively for “courting, receiving the min-ister and for funerals.” One of the bedrooms, the Blue Room, was especially furnished to accommo-date their frequent guests who were traveling the busy turnpike. Preser-vationist Harvey Broome, a descen-dant, would later observe, “When company came, the folks living
near would just bring in some meat from the smokehouse and put down some extra mattresses on the fl oor. They had wonderful times then.”
John Smith and his son, James Harvey Smith, appear to have been the last of John Adair’s de-scendants to have seen the last vestige of Fort Adair.
A respected Knox County his-torian, Katherine Keogh “Kate” White reported on her interview with James Harvey Smith in an article titled, “Where Trolleys And Autos Now Run John Adair Built His Stockade While Indians Peered Down From Black Oak” (Knoxville Sentinel, July 22, 1923). The article provides the best evidence we have of the fort’s location:
“What was then far out beyond the extreme frontier of this city in 1788 and where now is a part of busy North Knoxville out on the Fountain City road in beau-tiful Lynnhurst cemetery, in the extreme north, between the deep cut driveway and a large lonely oak tree, sleeps John Adair. This place was always known as Adair Burying Hill, and the Hill grave-yard on Adair Creek.
“Recently Lynnhurst was being put in order, some bones of early settlers were found, and reinterred in Lynnhurst and Greenwood cem-eteries. It was thought that John Adair and wife were among these, but a great-grandson of John Adair, John H. Smith (this was probably James Harvey Smith), who lives on the Adair estate in the large brick house between the Fountain City railway tracks and Broadway pike, remembered where his great-grandfather was buried and the rocks that used to mark his grave. He helped his father to pull down the old Fort and house of John Adair (emphasis added).
The Smith behind Smithwood
The Smith Mansion. Built in 1839 in the triangle between present-day Broad-way and Tazewell Pike, the location of CiCi’s Pizza, the Smith mansion stood until 1961, when it was demolished for a shopping center. Photos courtesy C.M.McClung Historical Collection
John Smith (1795-1883). The Smithwood community, Smith-wood Baptist Church and Smith-wood Grammar School were named for their benefactor, an early settler of Fountain City.
“The Brick House was built by the late John Smith, the second, in the year of 1839. The Fort, stockade, and house of 1788 stood on the west side of the asphalt road to Foun-tain City, between it and where Adair Creek runs, just below the graveyard. Mr. Smith said there were two springs one on each side of the stockade, which supplied the settlers (emphasis added), and that always a suffi cient amount of water was brought in during daylight, and some one with a rifl e stood guard while the women and children brought in the supply. He said his
grandmother would put bells on the cows, in the morning after the milk-ing was fi nished, and turn them out on the wide barrens, where they wandered, until late afternoon, when she would mount a horse and go out ‘callin, callin,’ where she heard the tinkling bells until all the cows came home.
“Mr. Smith says there was no for-est, hardly a tree, but shrub, acorn bushes, that the cattle fattened on. Just beyond, up to the foot of Black Oak Ridge, was a wide barren with thick grass and these shrub trees. Perhaps this was why John Adair located his fort in this basin (em-phasis added).Yet he was constantly molested by Indians who would creep up in the night and steal the horses or any thing else they could get away with. There is an old tra-dition that an Indian trail extended along the top of Black Oak Ridge, which lies about two miles to the north of Adair’s Fort. This was a government fort, Adair was ap-pointed Commissary under North Carolina, to furnish provisions for the Cumberland Guards, who were stationed at West Point, now Kings-ton, Tennessee, in the year of 1783.”
Although we do not know the ex-
act location of Fort Adair, we know that John and Mariah Smith made their home and raised their large family near its former location and within the limits of John Adair’s original 640-acre land grant.
Mariah Adair Christian Smith preceded her husband in death on June 21, 1883. Her epitaph reads: “The righteous shall be in everlast-ing remembrance.”
According to the monument on their grave site at Smithwood Bap-tist Church Cemetery, Deacon John Smith died on Dec. 8, 1883, at 88. His obituary was printed in the Sunday Chronicle:
“Died, yesterday evening, at 5 o’clock at his home, four miles north of this city, John Smith, aged about 90 years. Deceased came to his death from fever and general debil-ity, brought on by old age. He had only been sick since Tuesday. This man was well known and liked by all his neighbors. He leaves some grown sons, his wife being dead. The funer-al takes place tomorrow at Adair’s Creek church, at 12 o’clock. Friends of the deceased invited to attend.”
His epitaph reads: “After he had served his generation by the will of God he fell asleep.”
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Simon and Garfunkel’s songs were the soundtrack of my college years, and I found the words of “American Tune” running through my head the other night.
“I’m just weary to my bones.”
The past three weeks have been full of really hard work, interspersed with some fun projects that also took ener-gy and concentration. There have also been concerns for friends and extended “adopt-ed” family.
I wondered what Jesus meant when he said, “Get away with me and you’ll re-
The unforced rhythms of grace
LynnHutton
CROSS CURRENTS
cover your life,” (The Mes-sage), or “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me. …” (NRSV).
We see him in the Gospels, by turns, giving and giving of himself, and then weary and needing time alone. I am pret-
Community Services
■ Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-
try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each
second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m.
each fourth Saturday.
■ New Hope Baptist Church
distributes food from its
food pantry to local families
in need 6-8 p.m. every third
Thursday. Info: 688-5330.
■ New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 2504 Cecil
Ave., will host a meet and
greet for Vanderbilt “Van”
Brabson, candidate for District
13 state representative, 5:30
p.m. Friday, May 18. Info:
www.brabsonfortennessee.
org or email info@
brabsonfortennessee.org.
■ Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central Avenue
■ Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley
Road, will have homecoming
11 a.m. Sunday, May 27. Guest
pastor will be the Rev. Gray Day.
Music services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753
■ Central High School Class of
1957 will hold its 55th reunion
6 p.m. Friday, May 18, at Beaver
Brook Country Club’s 19th Hole
and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at
Beaver Brook Country Club.
■ Central High School Class
of 1962 will hold its 50-year
reunion July 6-7. Info: Bob Da-
vis, 689-4302, or Diane Turner
Sebby, 521-6652.
■ Fulton High School Alumni As-sociation will host the fourth an-
nual Wall of Fame banquet and
induction ceremony Saturday,
June 2, at Rothchild Catering and
Banquet Hall on Kingston Pike.
Meet-and-greet starts at 4 p.m.;
banquet begins at 6:30. An open
house will be held at Fulton High
from 2-6 p.m. Sunday, June 3.
Cost is $50 for the banquet and
$5 for the open house.
■ Fulton High School Class
of 1972 is planning its 40th
reunion celebration 6 p.m. Sat-
urday, July 14, at The Foundry,
747 World’s Fair Park Drive and
will include a catered dinner
buff et, photos by a professional
photographer that will be avail-
able online, Jake the DJ from
A performance
by Sandy WatersThe senior adult group of
Grace Covenant Baptist
Church on Dutchtown Road
in West Knoxville was enter-
tained recently by member
Sandy Waters who gave her
personal testimony, talked
about playing the dulcimer,
and performed bluegrass
and gospel music. Info:
www.gcbacademy.com. Photo submitted
ty sure Jesus was a true intro-vert: drawing his strengthfrom time spent alone (fre-quently in prayer) and spend-ing that strength when he waswith people.
Maybe that is the “Getaway with me …” part. Maybe(or perhaps, surely) we busymoderns don’t have enoughdown time. So what would itlook like to “get away” withJesus?
I have been on retreatsof various kinds. I went tochurch camp as a kid, a timethat was full of activities andmusic and worship. I have re-treated with grown-up churchfolk who wanted to be to-gether, to pray, study and fel-lowship. And I have been oncontemplative retreats, wheresilence reigned for large por-tions of the time.
All have been meaningfuland formative.
But I remember one black,black night on a camping trip,a night so cold that I couldbarely stand to be outside mysleeping bag. There was no ar-tifi cial light, so the night wasutterly dark. I looked up andwas awestruck by the count-less stars I could see. Then Ilooked down at the dark sur-face of the lake beside the tentand the water was so still thestars were perfectly refl ected.
Stars above me and stars atmy feet.
The old folk song says:I know where I’m goin’, and
I know who’s goin’ with me. Ihave a light to guide me whenthe way is dark and dreary.
REUNIONS Ogle Entertainment and more.
The cost is $45 until May 14, $55
May 15 to July 13 and $75 at the
door. Dress is business casual.
Mail registration to: FHS Class
Reunion, 4224 Williamson Drive,
Knoxville, TN 37938. Info: Deb-
bie Helton Keebler, 922-0049.
■ Fulton High School will
host an open house for every
graduating class from 1952
to present 2-6 p.m. Sunday,
June 3, at the school. Any class
choosing to host a gathering
must notify the FHS Alumni
Association to reserve a room.
Each class is responsible for
their expense of the hosting
of the room. Info: fhsalumni@
hughes.net. Refreshments will
be available.
■ Gibbs High School Class
of 1967 will hold its 45th
reunion 6 p.m. Saturday, June
2, at Angelos’ at the Point in
Dandridge. Reservations/info:
Nancy Breeding, 922-3120.
■ Powell High School Class of
1967 will hold its 45th class re-
union Friday and Saturday, June
8-9. Info: Brenda Owens, 573-
4395 or phs67class@comcast.
net; or Lynn or Wayne Tarver,
938-5248 or lynnwayne2@
frontiernet.net.
■ Powell High Class of 1972 will
hold its 40th class reunion
Saturday, June 23. Deadline to
register is Tuesday, May 15. Info:
Lynette Brown, lbrown8042@
aol.com or 548-2890.
WORSHIP NOTES
Oak Ridge Highway, will hold
choir rehearsal 6:30 to 7:30
p.m. each Wednesday for
performances each Sunday
at 11 a.m. All teenagers and
adults are welcomed. There
is currently a great need for
male singers. Church mem-
bership is not required. Info:
www.beaverridgeumc.com or
690-1060.
■ Emory Valley Baptist Church will host The North-
side Singers from Morristown
6 p.m. Sunday, May 20.
■ Highland Baptist Church,
6014 Babelay Road, will host
the Southern gospel trio
Crimson Ridge at 6 p.m. Sun-
day, May 20. A love off ering
will be collected. Info: www.
hbcknox.org or call Byron,
680-8823.
■ Living Waters Mission-ary Baptist Church, 3315 E.
Emory Road, will host The
Foothills Quartet at 6 p.m.
Sunday, May 20.
■ North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike, will
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As summer looms, the sports year is winding down and the season is already over for a few of Powell High’s teams.
The baseball team has fi nished another year. After beating the Anderson County Mavericks 11-0 in the fi rst round of the district tourna-ment, Powell went on to play Hardin Valley Academy. The Hawks topped the Panthers, pushing Powell into the los-ers’ bracket.
Powell ended the year with a 6-5 loss to Clinton.
Powell struggled offen-sively. “The only runs we scored came off three home runs,” said assistant coach Jay Scarbro. “We just didn’t get key hits … we had run-ners on base.”
Things were better on the
Coming to an end
defensive side of the ball for the Panthers, though.
“All the way through our pitchers pitched well enough to win,” said Scarbro. “We just didn’t execute.”
Despite coming up short in the postseason, Scarbro is still proud of the overall effort put forth by the team this season.
“We had a great group of seniors,” he said. “They gave everything they had. Some-times things just don’t go your way.”
After the loss to Clin-
ton, coach Jeff Inman an-nounced he was stepping down from the head coach-ing position. No replace-ment has been named.
Soccer: The PHS soccer team also fi nished things off for the year.
Coming off a 5-2 win against Union County on May 3 and a 3-0 win over Anderson County on May 5, the Panthers appeared to be peaking going into the dis-trict tournament.
Powell faced the Oak Ridge Wildcats in the fi rst round on May 7. The Panthers were put out by a score of 3-1.
“That was a really, really good game,” said Ellias Pal-cu. “We were neck-and-neck the whole time.”
The game was tied 1-1 at the end of regulation time and ended up going into two overtimes before a winner was determined.
“We were so fatigued,” said Palcu. “My legs just kind
of started locking up.”The Panthers played 100
minutes that night. This year’s seniors had never played on a PHS team with a winning sea-son – until this year.
Track: One part of the Powell High athletic depart-ment still has a few weeks to go, though. The track team began regionals at Science Hill on May 11 and expects to send several individuals to the state championships in Murfreesboro.
Georgetown-signee An-drew Ogle won the mile and half-mile at KIL at Hardin Valley. Ogle broke the PHS school record and the Hardin Valley stadium record in the half-mile. He also anchored Powell’s 4x4 relay, which the Panthers also won.
The Powell boys’ team came in fi fth as a whole at the meet.
“That’s the highest we’ve ever been,” said Ogle. “We’re doing really well.”
Farm Day… brings agriculture to the classroom
Brickey-McCloud kindergarten students Luke Marlowe, Acelyn
Washam, Walker Hopkins and Katie Quinten show off tomato
plants they received while learning about the farm. Pictured
with them is their teacher Kara Israel. Brickey-McCloud Elementary student Rachel Fritz gets her
nose painted by clown David McDaniel.
Crawford wins Barney Thompson Scholarship
Powell High School senior Elizabeth Crawford received the Barney Thompson Memorial Scholarship from The Knox-ville Area Association of Realtors and Knox County Schools Partners In Educa-tion at a special ceremony May 7 at the Realtors’ office on Weisgarber Road. Crawford
Recognized for helping the communityPowell High School freshmen and Girl Scouts Kameron
Hanshaw and Meredith Denney were honored recently by
the Girl Scout Council of Southern Appalachia with its Sil-
ver award. Meredith earned the award for community ser-
vice by helping feed and cloth the homeless in Knoxville,
and Kameron earned her award by holding a monthly
activity night at Windsor Gardens Assisted Living Facility.
Both girls are members of troop 20769. Pictured are Mer-
edith Denney, troop leader Tracy Jarnigan and Kameron
Allison Blanchette discusses safety measures to First Baptist
Academy student Saylor Mynatt at State Farm Ag Day at the zoo. Photos by Ruth White
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Splash pad opensZachary Gassler enjoys the splash pad at Powell Station Park (Emory Road near Powell High School). Knox County Parks and Recreation opened the pads on May 5. Hours of opera-tion are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. At right, Marley Rose and Trevor Wright explore the splashing water. Photos by S. Clark
SCHOOL NOTES
Fountain City Elementary ■ Fifth grade awards night, Monday, May 21. Fifth Grade Day,
Tuesday, May 22.
Halls Elementary ■ Field days will be held Tuesday, May 15, for kindergarten and
1st grade; Wednesday, May 16, for 2nd and 3rd grades; and Thursday, May 17, for 4th and 5th grades.
Rabies clinicDr. Janell Peterson maintains eye contact with Daisy at the rabies clinic May 5 at Powell High School. Austin Tipton, PHS student, holds Daisy and reacts to the injection. Photos by S. Clark
HEALTH NOTES ■ Alzheimer’s caregiver support group meets 6-7 p.m. each
third Thursday at Elmcroft Assisted Living and Memory Care in Halls. Light refreshments. RSVP appreciated. Info: 925-2668.
■ Alzheimer’s support group meets 6:30 p.m. each first Thurs-day at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7225 Old Clinton Pike. Info: 938-7245.
■ Cancer survivor support groups, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Cancer Sup-port Community of East Tennessee, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings. Cancer family bereavement group, Thursday evenings. Info: 546-4661 or www.cancersupportet.org.
■ The cooking class “Viva Mexico! Healthy Creations” will be held by UT Medical Center’s Healthy Living Kitchen team at noon Wednesday, May 23, in the Healthy Living Kitchen. Learn how to make a healthy Mexican meal. Cost is $20 and includes supplies. To register: 305-6877 or www.utmedicalcenter.org/healthylivingkitchen.
■ Covenant Health’s Bodyworks offers community exercise for all ages at $3 per class. Classes include Easy Cardio Max, Mind and Body, and Senior Cardio. Visit www.covenanthealth.com/bodyworks or call 541-4500 to find a location near you.
■ Grief support groups at Fort Sanders Sevier Hospital 6 p.m. each first Thursday; 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. each third Wednesday at the Covenant Home Care Knoxville office; and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. each fourth Wednesday at the Covenant Home Care Oak Ridge office. Registration is required. Info or to register: 541-4500.
■ The Healthy Living Kitchen Team at the University of Ten-nessee Medical Center has published a cookbook called “A Recipe for Life.” It is available for $35 at the gift shop or onlineat www.utmedicalcenter.org. Info: 305-6877.
■ Lung cancer support group meets 6 p.m. each third Monday at Baptist West Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No charge, light refreshments served. Info: Trish or Amanda, 218-7081.
■ Stop Smoking: 1-800-784-8669 (1-800-QUITNOW) is a program of the Knox County Health Department. The hotline is answered 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
■ UT Hospice conducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18 and older) interested in becoming volunteers with its program. No medical experience is required. Training is pro-vided. Info: 544-6279.
■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support, for any adult who is suf-fering loss, meets 5 to 6:30 p.m. each first and third Tuesday in the UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper will be served. Info or to reserve a spot: 544-6277.
SENIOR NOTES
AARP driver safety classFor registration info about these and all other AARP
driver safety classes, call Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964. ■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 14-15,
Strawberry Plains Senior Center, 3104 Old Andrew Johnson Highway.
■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, Church Street UMC, 900 Henley St.
■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, May 15-16, Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway.
■ Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, May 16-17, O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St.
■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 16-17, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Drive.
■ Noon to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, Halls Senior Center, 4200 Crippen Road.
■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 24-25, Everett Senior Center, 702 Burchfield St., Maryville.
KIDS NOTES ■ Story Time with Miss Helen, 11 a.m.
Thursday, May 17, at Smart Toys and Books, 9700 Kingston Pike in Franklin Square.
■ Nature Preschool – “Gettin’ Buggy with It” for ages 4-5 is 10 a.m. Thursday, May 17, at Ijams Nature Center. Free to members, $15 for nonmembers. To register: 577-4717, ext. 110.
■ Ijams Story Time: “Skippyjon Jones” by Judy Schachner is 1 p.m. Thursday, May 17 at Ijams Nature Center. Craft in-cluded. Free, but donations accepted.
To register: 577-4717, ext. 110.
■ “Mommy and Me” art classes at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon Friday, May 18, at Smart Toys and Books. $5 materials fee; reservations required in advance. Ages 2 and up.
■ Game/craft demo 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Smart Toys and Books. Hands-on trials with and dem-onstrations of newly arriving games.
■ Children’s Festival of Reading, presented by the Knox County Public Library, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May
19, on the World’s Fair Park Festival Lawn and Amphitheater. Admission is free. Info: www.knoxlib.org/cfor or 215-8767.
■ Engino Building – Engineer/Architect Creativity Workshop for ages 7-12 will be 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Fri-day, June 4-8, in the Community Room of the Farragut Town Hall, located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $145 per child (includes all supplies, snacks and beverages). Register and pay by Friday, May 25. Info or to regis-ter: 966-7057.
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Almost 40 years for David’s CarpetDavid Hayes opened Da-
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Now, almost 40 years later, he owns two full-service f looring stores, one in Farragut and one in Pigeon Forge. In 1997 he joined the Abbey Carpet franchise and became Da-vid’s Abbey Carpet. Hayes says the Farragut store has the largest selection of area rugs locally, along with a full gamut of car-pet, tile, stone and wood f looring.
What’s kept him at it this long?
“I just enjoy doing it,” he said. “I get up every day and still enjoy my job after 40 years.”
David Hayes of David’s Abbey
Carpet. Photo by S. Carey
By Sherry WittAfter a healthy per-
formance in March, the local real e s t a t e m a r k e t s u r g e d a h e a d still fur-ther in A p r i l . For the m o n t h e n d i n g
on Monday, April 30, there were 746 property transfers in Knox Coun-ty – some 65 more than in March, and even fur-ther ahead of last April’s pace when 622 parcels changed hands.
April also blew past March in terms of the total value of proper-ties sold. The aggregate value of all the parcels transferred in April was $137.2 million, com-pared to $110.7 million the previous month. A year ago in April, about $122 million worth of land was sold in Knox County.
Mortgage lending dropped off slightly during the month as about $287 million
was borrowed against real property. That was around $25 million short of the March total, but well ahead of last April’s amount of $178 million.
The largest property transfer of the month was for a commercial parcel on Old Callahan Road. The land was sold by Tennessee State Bank for $3.6 million. Anoth-er notable transfer was for property on Emory Road in Powell pur-chased by Hardee’s Food Systems for $1,365,000.
The two largest lend-ing transactions of the month included a loan of $15.15 million by Parkside Hotel Part-ners, and a loan of $10 million on Hardin Val-ley Apartments II.
Also, 2012 is outper-forming 2011 in both recordings and fee col-lections. The number of documents recorded during April experi-enced its biggest jump in many months. There were more than 1,000 documents filed in April 2012 than in April 2011.
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Critter Tales
After you’re goneLocal attorney and pub-
lic speaker Anne McKinney talked to a group of folks re-cently about their pets and estate planning. Although the subject is not a concern for everyone, considering the care of your pet in the event of your death should be a priority for those of us fortunate enough to have them as part of our families.
Hosted by Visionary Hori-zons Wealth Management, the group met at Panera Bread in Bearden to discuss the “what ifs” of pet ownership.
McKinney answered several questions from the group, including how to choose a caretaker for your pet and what type of infor-mation to leave behind to ensure your furry friends are cared for just as you
Local attorney Anne McKin-
ney recommends keeping
your pet(s) in mind when
making decisions about your
will. Photo by S. Barrett
Finding peace for your pet
‘Cowboy for a Cure’Johnny Warnshuis, a.k.a. “The Cowboy for a Cure,” was spotted
on Cedar Bluff Road last Wednesday during his cross-country
trip on horseback to raise awareness of Guillain-Barre syn-
drome, an illness his mother was diagnosed with in 2010. His
goal is to reach Times Square in New York City by June or July.
Pictured with Warnshuis is “Sandy,” one of two horses he’s trav-
eling with. Info: www.cowboyforacure.com. Photo by S. Barrett
Hayes and his staff love making homes beautiful. They spend a lot of time and effort to make sure they have the best prod-ucts, prices and selection of anyone in the area. They also put a lot of time into training so they can best help their customers.
But, Hayes says that only goes so far.
“Training is important, but I’ve preached for years that people don’t care how much you know if they know how much you care.”
That’s why Hayes pays attention to the little things. Every once in
awhile, he parks at the front of the building and walks in like a customer would, looks at the show-room with fresh eyes. A room full of choices can be intimidating, but Hayes and the staff strive to make the environment as wel-coming as possible.
Hayes has accumulated a lot of advice for new en-trepreneurs over 40 years in business. Gather a good team, he says. Make sure your spouse is 100 percent on board. Find a mentor and a good bookkeeper. But, a passion for what you’re going to do is first and foremost.
“You’ve got to first have the passion and under-stand how tough it is to get started,” he said. “It is not easier to be in business for yourself. It looks easier, but this is not a perfect world.”
If you want to support local business, David’s Ab-bey Carpet is a great place to start. Hayes says money spent at David’s stays lo-cal. Hayes loves interact-ing with his customers and is always ready to help cus-tomers find f looring they’ll love.
Info: 777-0661 or www.davidsabbeycarpet.com. Shannon Carey is the Shopper-News gen-
eral manager and sales manager. Contact
Shannon at shannon@shoppernewsnow.
com.
Young-Williams staff
member Eddie Morris
visits with Chris, a shy
2-year-old domestic
short hair mix. Chris
loves one-on-one at-
tention and is not big
on dogs. He is ready to
fi nd his fur-ever home.
You cannot take them all
home yourself, but you
can help them all fi nd
homes. Visit both loca-
tions: 3210 Division St.
and the Young-Williams
Animal Village at 6400
Kingston Pike. Both
facilities are open daily from noon to 6 p.m. If you don’t
have time to drop by and take a look, visit www.young-
williams.org to see photos or call 215-6599 for more
information about each pet.
A donation for ‘Paws to Visit’Enrichment Federal Credit Union community relations manag-
er Katy Jett recently presented Amy Buttry and Ashley Schnei-
der from the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley with a
donation for the “Paws to Visit” program. Puppies Barney and
Lana helped out with the donation. Photo submitted
would care for them.When making out your will
with an attorney, McKinney suggested having a detailed list of items for the pet-related part of the will, including any medications your animal(s) may need, what types of food they eat and what “comfort” items they need. Be as specifi c as possible.
McKinney also suggested leaving money for your pets’ caretakers to cover the costs of care. “Hopefully,” she
said, “by the time the money runs out, your pet will have warmed the heart of their caretaker” and your pet will be seen as part of the family. Pet insurance, she added, is also another option for cov-ering the costs of your pets’ care upon your death.
McKinney went on to say you can have your entire estate go toward the care of your pet, with benefi cia-ries receiving the remaining amount upon the death of the animal. A trustee will be giv-en the authority to check on the animal and make sure its living conditions and quality of life meet the standards you put into place with your will.
No one likes to think about what will happen to our pets after we die, but by being proactive, we can al-low them to have the same
quality of life as when we were on earth to pamper them.
For more informa-tion visit www.VisionaryHorizons.com or Anne McKinney’s website at www.ammtaxlaw.com.Contact Sara at 218-9378 or email her at