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Derailing MikeBetty Bean looks at efforts

to derail Mike McMillan’s run to be school board chair.

➤ Read Bean’s analysis on page 4

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By Betsy PickleLast Saturday’s Foreigner con-

cert at the Tennessee Theatre featured not only the venerable rock band but also some of South Knoxville’s potential “juke box he-roes.”

The South-Doyle Singers got to perform with Foreigner on “I Want To Know What Love Is” – the leg-endary band’s iconic and only No. 1 hit – thanks to a contest held by Foreigner and 103.5 WIMZ.

To say that the mid-’80s smash

is probably not on many high-schoolers’ playlists is probably overstating.

“A bunch of people in the class were like, ‘Who’s Foreigner?’” said Zoee Lyle, a senior in the South-Doyle Singers.

But there are these things called “parents,” and for some of them, Foreigner was a big part of their teen (or younger) years.

“Our parents loved Foreigner, so when we told them this was a possibility, they were like, ‘Oh my

gosh, that’s so cool! Do we get to go?!’ They were so excited,” said Madison Curry.

Rachel Cormack says her dad is a big Foreigner fan.

“He educated me in all classic rock,” said Rachel.

As soon as fathers and other WIMZ listeners heard about the contest at the beginning of the school year, they let the Singers know. The young vocalists, in turn, lobbied their new director, Seth Ma-ples, to let them enter the contest.

Seth Maples rehearses the South-Doyle Singers for the Foreigner concert. Photo by Betsy Pickle

S-D Singers travel (not) so far … to sing with Foreigner

“The more I researched it, it sounded like a great idea and a great way to start our year off,” said Maples.

They had until Sept. 12 to sub-mit a video of the Singers per-forming a Foreigner song. Maples arranged an a cappella medley – “Hot-Blooded,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Feels Like the First Time” – and they started rehearsing. When it became clear “Juke Box

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Mayor on boardBy Ruth White

Mayor Madeline Rogero hopped aboard a trolley outside the City County Building and rode down to KAT’s John J. Duncan Jr. Knox-ville Station Transit Center, where she purchased a ticket for the Broadway 22.

Riders quickly recognized the mayor as she made her way down the aisle and took a seat. Several in-dividuals asked her and city direc-tor of transit Dawn Distler ques-tions regarding specifi c routes and expansion of routes, for which they

received prompt answers. The ride was the fi rst of many

and part of Rogero’s initiative to ride the buses, talking with driv-ers and passengers. The KAT sys-tem currently carries close to 3.6 million passengers a year and is a convenient and reliable mode of transportation. The mayor says the system is underutilized and hopes that by talking to everyone involved, the public transporta-tion system in Knoxville can be-come more effi cient and possibly expand.

By Wendy SmithThe city of Knoxville is embark-

ing on a $7 million upgrade for traffi c signal synchronization on Broadway and Kingston Pike. Last week I met two city employees who are directly involved. We met at the intersection of Cedar Bluff and Peters Road, probably the city’s most congested intersection.

When Ernie Pierce gets caught in a traffi c backup, he’s not frus-trated by the delay. He’s frustrated by the unsolved problem.

“Your congestion is my conges-tion,” he says.

Pierce is to traffi c signals what the Colonel is to fried chicken. The signal engineer has been tinker-ing with Knoxville’s intersections since 1989. Nobody could do a bet-ter job, says the city’s chief traffi c engineer, Jeff Branham.

At the Cedar Bluff intersection, others see a cacophony of vehicles;

Pierce sees a fi nely-tuned orches-tration. The signals have six phas-es and the intersection is equipped with radar detection that moni-tors the percent of traffi c coming from each direction. The timing of each phase changes based on the information received by the radar.

The intersection’s fi rst prior-ity is the left turn lanes from Ce-dar Bluff to Peters because those lanes could potentially back up to the lights at I-40, which would be dangerous.

“Safety is our fi rst priority, not convenience,” says Branham.

Two upcoming state projects should help with congestion on Cedar Bluff. Reconfi guring of lanes will give a continuous green light to one lane from south-bound Cedar Bluff to westbound I-40, and a second turn lane from southbound Cedar Bluff to North Peters/Parkside will be added.

Dissection of an intersection

Knoxville signal engineer Ernie Pierce and chief traffi c engineer Jeff Bran-

ham examine the traffi c signal controller at the intersection of Cedar Bluff

Road and Peters Road.

City director of transit, Dawn Distler, shows Bill Lyons, Duane Grieve and

Mayor Madeline Rogero a display inside the bus terminal. Photo by R. White

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Smith for Congress?Members of a large Fulton

High School alumni group were startled earlier this month when a group member’s

rant about President Obama led to an email from former County Commissioner R. Larry Smith hinting that that he’s gear-ing up for a run

for U.S. Congress.Smith wrote:“So would this group

support R. Larry for Con-gress?????? – R. Larry”

Smith didn’t attend Fulton but has been hanging around the group since being invited to speak a year ago, a source said.

When asked if he is consider-ing a run against incumbent Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., who has held the Second District seat since 1988, Smith, who was term lim-ited out of his County Commis-sion seat Sept. 1, said that he is.

“I’m very dissatisfi ed with what’s happening in Washing-ton,” he said. “And I’ve got the fi re in my heart to run.”

– Betty Bean

Alzheimer’s pansies on sale

Stanley’s Greenhouses turned purple and orange Tuesday for the kickoff of the Alzheimer’s Pansy Project benefi ting the Pat Summitt Foundation. Mayor Madeline Rogero, Joan Cronan and foun-dation representatives were expected at the kickoff.

For the third year, purple and orange Panola pansies will be sold to raise funds for the Summitt Foundation and awareness for Alzheimer’s pa-tients and caregivers. “Nearly everyone has someone in their life who has been touched by this,” said Monte Stanley.

Stanley’s Greenhouses, 3029 Davenport Road, and Stanley’s Secret Garden, 305 S. Northshore Drive, will have fl ats of the specially grown pansies for $17 through Oc-tober or “while supplies last,” said Lisa Stanley.

– Betsy Pickle

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Second opinion gives Tellico man right treatmentAbout three years ago, Kim Frasch of

Tellico, now 65, had pain in both of his calves. Over time, it moved upward and became more intense.

“As it got worse, it went into my thighs and glutes. And finally I began to lean to the left as an involuntary effort to gain some relief,” Frasch said. “My wife was worried I couldn’t stand up straight. I had sharp, stabbing pains in my legs, and standing was intolerable. I could only walk for a short period of time.”

Frasch had spinal stenosis, a fairly common condition in which the spinal canal narrows. The bones of the verte-brae compress the spine and surround-ing nerves, typically in the lower back. This creates pain, numbness and weak-ness in the legs and feet.

Spinal stenosis typically comes on slowly and gets worse over time, most often affecting people over the age of 50.

“Apparently, I had it for years. This is a very slow process,” said Frasch. “They said I’d had it for years and years, but it just never manifested itself.”

Frasch is a business consultant in the medical field, so he did plenty of Internet research about the condition to find an area physician who could help him.

Frasch consulted one surgeon, but didn’t quite feel comfortable. He then went for a second opinion to Dr. Patrick Bolt of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. He liked what he experienced.

“The people are upbeat and work well together there,” Frasch said. “I have vis-ited practices and other health care enti-ties all over the country. I can walk into a business and tell if it is working well or needs better management. It’s one thing to entrust your care to the surgeon, but

When is back surgery right for you?Spinal stenosis is one of the most com-

mon causes of severe back and leg pain, and also one of the most effectively treated con-ditions with surgery.

Stenosis means “narrowing,” and it’s when the bones of the spinal column narrow from arthritis, bone spurs or other diseases. The bones then press on the spinal column or surrounding nerves, causing pain.

“This is probably one of the most com-mon surgeries that I do; it’s a very common problem. Stenosis manifests itself as back and leg pain that gets worse with walking. It’s relieved by sitting,” explained Dr. Pat-rick Bolt, an orthopedic surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

While medication and physical therapy can ease the symptoms of stenosis and in-stability, the only permanent fi x is surgery to widen the spinal canal space and stabilize misaligned vertebrae together.

While most people don’t relish the idea of spinal surgery, Dr. Bolt said modern, minimally invasive techniques offer the chance for an otherwise healthy patient to be up and walking again quickly.

Minimally invasive surgery involves sev-eral small incisions instead of one larger one, with computer-assisted imaging and microscopes used during surgery.

The incisions are so small that most otherwise healthy patients can go home in about three days, Bolt said. What’s more, the pain of recovering from surgery is typi-cally less than the pain of spinal stenosis.

“I think the public has a negative view

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his staff has to be happy and supportive. I’m very happy to say Dr. Bolt was the right choice.”

At first, Dr. Bolt recommended the first-line treatments of physical therapy and steroid injections on Mr. Frasch, but those gave little relief from the pain. At that point, Dr. Bolt recommended the only permanent solution – surgery to widen and stabilize the spinal canal.

Frasch underwent corrective spine surgery at Fort Sanders Regional on March 11.

During the procedure, Dr. Bolt re-moved arthritis and bone spurs from in-side Mr. Frasch’s fourth and fifth lumbar

niques, making four smaller incisions in-stead of one larger one.

As soon as he woke up, Mr. Frasch saidhe immediately felt relief.

“I came out of surgery after five hours,and they said, ‘Would you like to get up?’And I said, ‘You bet.’ I got up and walked,and I was literally freely stepping, no legpain whatsoever, tears of joy runningdown my face!”

Frasch said he was home in two daysand has walked every day since then fortherapy. “Today I’m wearing my brace,and yes, I do have site pain, but it’s notsuch that I need to take any medicationfor it.”

Frasch said he would recommend Dr.Bolt, Fort Sanders and their support staffto anyone facing back surgery.

“You’ve got to do the work, but if youdo it, your results can be stellar. I gavemy caregivers five stars,” Frasch said ofFort Sanders. “When I pushed my buttonand needed something, I got it, from theday I arrived right through discharge.”

“This is what we’re striving for inhealth care in this country, and I can’t sayenough good about Dr. Bolt’s team. I wascared for properly. I got my life back.”

vertebrae, and then fused the two togeth-er using a bone graft and screws. Dr. Bolt did all that with minimally invasive tech-

Dr. Patrick Bolt

of spinal surgery, but much of that is from techniques that were used in the past,” said Bolt.

“Today there are many conditions that surgery can be very benefi cial for, such as spinal stenosis. Minimally invasive tech-niques can accomplish the goal with smaller incisions and a quicker recovery for the pa-tient. You can have a great outcome.”

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Hero” didn’t fi t in the mix, Cormack asked if she could arrange “Cold as Ice” for use as the middle song.

That’s when the medley clicked, but the Singers had less than two weeks to learn it.

“Every day we’d come into class and hammer it down as good as we could,” said Lyle.

“’Til it was perfection,” added Curry. (The video, made by SDHS alum Andy Vinson, is on YouTube un-der “South Doyle Singers Foreigner Mashup.”)

The concert took place af-ter the Shopper’s story dead-

S-D Singers From page 1

line, but the students were expecting to meet the band.

“If not, I believe a bunch of us are going to be disap-pointed,” said Lyle.

They also were able to take the full group. The maximum allowed in the video audition was 25, but the Singers squeaked in because three members weren’t able to record that day. The contest organizers allowed all 27 to take part in the concert.

“We really wanted every-body to be part of the ex-perience,” said Curry. “We didn’t feel right them not being there.”

Foreigner gave the Singers $500 for performing on stage with them. The South-Doyle students also were asked to sell Foreigner CDs before and after the show, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Grammy Foundation to help fund music programs at schools where budgets have been cut.

The Singers were excited about the $500, but they were more excited about performing.

“We wanted to win, and we thought we had a chance, but when it happened it was just unbelievable to all of us,” said Lyle.

On the heels of the suc-cessful launch of its quar-terly Saturday South com-munity get-together, the South Knoxville Alliance applauded the key organiz-ers and said farewell to a longtime leader at its Sep-tember meeting at LaborEx-change.

Betsy Pickle

Molly Gilbert and Lloyd King visit the South Knoxville Neigh-

borhood and Business Coalition.

The new board of the South Knoxville Alliance includes (front) Aimee Pehrson, Sharon Davis, Debra Bradshaw, Janice Tocher;

(back) Alan Smith, Patrick Michael and Monte Stanley. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Tree guys Tom Simpson and David Vandergriff

Onward, upward for SKA

Saturday South was deemed a winner, thanks to hard work by all – es-pecially events committee chair Debra Bradshaw and co-chair Antoinette Fritz. The event, based at Ijams Nature Center, and its ac-companying K-Town Races, held at businesses around South Knoxville, provided a day of fun for all ages.

There were 25 booths

featuring food, retail and activities. The stage hosted fi ve hours of music and other entertainment, with a brief pause for a wedding on the grounds. The K-Town Races divvied up $450 in cash prizes, plus gift certifi -cates from Shoney’s.

SKA chair Rebecca Hu-sain thanked the organiz-ers enthusiastically before moving on to the elections to replace herself and long-time secretary Bobbye Ed-wards. Husain has been at the helm for most of SKA’s existence, and Edwards has been a key fi gure as well.

Bradshaw was unani-mously elected as the new chair, and Sharon Davis was elected secretary.

■ Dogwood visitors engage SKNBCDogwood Trails chair

Lloyd King and Chapman Highway Dogwood Trail co-chair Molly Gilbert were special guests at the South Knoxville Neighborhood

and Business Coalition’s September meeting.

Chapman Highway is the 2015 Featured Dogwood Trail. Residents from the trail’s two sections – Lake Forest and Colonial Vil-lage – have been consid-ering making suggestions for some alterations to the trails, and inclusion of Lind-bergh Forest as a garden by-way has also been proposed.

At the SKNBC meet-ing at Woodlawn Christian Church, Gilbert and King encouraged them to submit their ideas to the Trails Ad-visory Committee quickly so they can be considered at that group’s October meeting. Any changes also have to be approved by the city. Maps for the Dogwood trails must be locked down by January.

Gilbert announced that city Urban Forester Kasey Krouse will be leading a Dogwood trail cleanup day the morning of Nov. 15 in Lake Forest. Krouse will oversee the planting of sev-

eral exotic dogwood trees donated by the Knoxville Botanical Garden. There will also be demonstrations on pruning and other tactics to improve residential prop-erties in preparation for the Dogwood Trail.

Monte Stanley reported that the South Knoxville Al-liance’s beautifi cation com-mittee would have a $1,200 grant from Lowe’s. They plan to use the funds to help landscape the entrances to the trail.

■ More tree talkThe September meeting

of the city of Knoxville’s Tree Board, not surprisingly, put the focus on trees.

(The surprise for most readers is, Knoxville has a Tree Board? Yes, it does, and an active one at that. David Vandergriff is the chair.)

University of Tennes-see urban forestry students Chloe Poole and Siera Dar-nell gave a presentation on their study of trees and other growth in Marie My-

ers Park and William Has-tie Park Natural Area, both in South Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness. Their report in-cluded some suggestions for improvements, which they passed on to city Urban For-ester Kasey Krouse.

Tom Simpson announced that the city had received the Tennessee Agriculture Enhancement Program grant for which it had ap-plied. Simpson is the East Tennessee Regional Urban Forester for the Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry. The grant, which must be cash-matched by the municipality applying, is worth about $20,000.

“The city of Knoxville already has a budget for planting trees on an annual

basis,” Simpson said. “Withthis grant, they can almostdouble the number of treesthey put out with the sameamount of money.”

The trees, which must bepurchased from a Tennes-see supplier, will be plantedthis fall.

Krouse will attend theTennessee Urban ForestryCouncil meeting in Novem-ber in Nashville and will re-port on a new champion treediscovered in South Knox-ville.

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or how I can help them mas-ter those problems.

“If par-ents ask me why their s t u d e n t per for med poorly on a state test, I don’t have an answer

because I am prohibited from reviewing the ques-tions after the test. This is frustrating for teachers and parents, but the ones who truly suffer are the stu-dents.”

Brown said state funding was mentioned only once at the four-hour summit, yet “Mississippi invests more per student than Tennes-see.”

When the Legislature reconvenes, expect a battle among Tennessee’s three political parties: the dwin-dling Democrats, who gen-erally back TEA, want better funding and resist reforms; the corporate Republicans, including Haslam and local legislators, who want na-tional standards and teach-er accountability; and the red-meat Republicans, who call the standards “Obam-acore” and want more guns and fewer taxes.

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Beth Brown

government

MetroPulse columnist Frank Cagle is an expert on state politics. Last week he boldly predicted the demise of Common Core state stan-dards when the Legislature reconvenes.

Sandra Clark

No common ground on Common Core

“If you didn’t see that coming, you are willfully blind,” he wrote of last year’s near-death. “Some of us could see it coming sit-ting on a porch in Strawber-ry Plains.”

Ever the optimist, Gov. Bill Haslam convened a summit last week to reboot his education reforms, in-cluding Common Core.

Beth Brown, vice presi-dent of the Tennessee Edu-cation Association, said the real experts weren’t invited. Most there had “zero class-room experience.”

Brown said testing is paramount for reformers, yet teachers never see the results. “A list of student scores does not tell me what questions students missed

Week before last, reports trickled out that establish-ment types (meaning the usual Chamber of Com-merce/corporate education reform crowd) were get-ting desperate to fi nd a way to derail Mike McMillan’s campaign to become chair of the Board of Education, a powerful position that au-tomatically confers a spot on the board’s two-person executive committee (along with the superintendent) and the ability to set the board’s meeting agendas.

McMillan has been a con-sistent critic of Superinten-dent James McIntyre since taking the Eighth District seat in 2010, and he often fi nds himself on the short end of 8-1 votes. The pro-McIntyre majority had little to fear from him, and a year ago, nobody could have pre-dicted that he’d emerge as the senior member of a bur-geoning 5-4 majority.

Betty Bean

The eff ort to derail McMillan

But he may well be. When Lynne Fugate announced that she was tired of being perceived as divisive and would not seek re-election as chair, the McIntyre-support-ing former majority lined up behind Third Dis trict board member Doug Harris, but he could muster only four votes, including his own. Same went for McMillan, who got his own vote plus votes from new members Amber Roun-tree, Terry Hill and interim member John Fugate. When it became obvious that the two sides would never un-tangle the deadlock, every-one agreed to come back next month and vote again when new Seventh District board member Patti Bounds

is present.Bounds, who was off on

a Mediterranean cruise that was planned and paid for long before she ran for of-fi ce, has become the focus of intense speculation.

Meanwhile, public re-lations guy Mike Cohen didn’t like the way things appeared to be headed but said he was acting on his own in his efforts to fi nd a way to block McMillan from being named chair. His ba-sic argument is that Knox County will be less likely to fi nd suitable candidates for McIntyre’s replacement with McMillan at the helm.

His solution for breaking the deadlock?

Terry Hill, the new Sixth District board member, who is a retired school psy-chologist, mother of a for-mer board member (Cindy Buttry) and wife of another (Steve Hill). She scored the most resounding Election

Day win of any of the new-bies and was a polishedcandidate who appeared tobe less dug into her posi-tions than many of her col-leagues. Plus, Cohen, a for-mer KCS public informationoffi cer, said he just likes her.

“Personally I’d love Terryto serve. I actually wroteher that a couple of days af-ter the election. I knew herwhen I was the schools’ PRguy. I was a fan of hers thenand I am a fan of hers now,”he said.

He also said he doesn’tthink the options should belimited to Harris or McMil-lan.

But there’s a glitch – Hill(who had likely noticed thatseveral of Cohen’s friends,including Doug Harris, gaveconsiderable sums of mon-ey to her major opponent)doesn’t want the job.

“I have no interest in run-ning for chair at this time,”she said.

Why the secrecy by MPC?One would think the

Metropolitan Planning Commission would have enjoyed all the controversy it wanted over the past few months with the strong neighborhood criticism of Director Mark Donaldson and his controversial hiring of Dave Hill, but on Sept. 11 MPC adopted by stealth the $101,000 separation agree-ment for Donaldson with-out any public discussion or reasonable notice, thereby triggering more attention.

This comes on top of Mayors Burchett and Rog-ero seeking and getting Donaldson’s early retire-ment.

How did this happen?When MPC met for its

regular meeting, chair Re-becca Longmire quickly asked that the consent cal-endar be amended to add the separation agreement. Commissioner Clancy im-mediately seconded it and before anyone knew what was afoot it was adopted. Even veteran MPC member Jack Sharp did not know the agreement had passed when contacted by this writer four days later.

The agreement was not on the published agenda or explained at the public meeting. Media have failed to report this. Clearly, Long-mire and others on the MPC executive committee did not want the public or even fel-low commissioners to know its contents or debate it. By hiding it, they have directed even more attention to its contents and undermined further already weakened public confi dence in MPC commissioners who orches-trated this charade.

Why the secrecy by MPC?

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The separation agree-ment was obtained through an open-records request. Donaldson’s current con-tract, going back to 2005, pays him one-month salary (which is $9,186.58) plus accrued sick leave (which is 772 hours or $43,641.16) plus accrued annual leave (which is 327 hours, which equal $18,485.36) for a total of $71,313.05.

Then MPC voluntarily added two months’ sal-ary for $18,373.16 and 80 percent of his health-care premiums for one year at $11,888 for a total of $30,261.16 for a combined total of $101,574.21 in order to keep him around until his successor is installed. This is on top of the salary he will be paid for the time he con-tinues working. This second part was optional and not mandated by contract.

The public still does not know what will happen to Dave Hill, whose hiring in-stigated much of this.

In their defense, Steve Wise, MPC attorney, ex-plains that the recommen-dations of the executive committee usually go on the consent calendar and are not discussed at the full MPC meeting. This practice should be dropped when it includes such a large price tag.

What were commission-ers thinking when they failed to discuss it in public? No one would ever ask? The

held in his honor this Fri-day, Sept. 26, at the HowardBaker federal courthouse.

■ Veteran GOP activ-ist Phyllis Severance ishelping the Alexander forU.S. Senate offi ce in KnoxCounty – a substantialboost to the Alexander ef-fort.

■ It is ironic that theTennessee Supreme Court,which has a female major-ity, did not have a singlewoman apply to be the stateattorney general. Nor wasthere a concerted effort toencourage women or Afri-can-Americans to apply.

It would seem the threefemale members of thecourt would have encour-aged female attorneys orjudges to apply for thateight-year term, but appar-ently it did not happen.

Women in today’s worldoften make up a signifi cantportion of graduating class-es from law schools.

Tennessee has never hada woman or African-Amer-ican serve as state AG. Theywill have to wait anothereight years to even be con-sidered.

Knox County elected itsfi rst female DA (CharmeKnight Allen) last month.Shelby County has had a fe-male DA for several years.

Popular election produc-es faster results in this areathan appointments madebehind closed doors.

■ Gov. Bill Haslamwill join New York Gov. An-drew Cuomo, Nevada Gov.Brian Sandoval and Mis-souri Gov. Jay Nixon at a re-ception at the U.S. Embassyin Kabul, Afghanistan, thisSunday, Sept. 28, accordingto an invitation sent to per-sonnel at the Embassy.

media would miss it? This is public money and merits public scrutiny. The com-missioners are not used to public review of their ac-tions on internal issues. They would do well to con-sult with Jack Sharp, who has forgotten more than most current younger com-missioners know, for advice on public relations and local politics.

There is some positive news from MPC, however. Notices of all future meet-ings and committee meet-ings will now be posted on the MPC website, which has not occurred for the pow-erful executive committee meeting. This is due to the intervention of Wise, who deserves praise for this.

■ GOP legislative nominee Eddie Smith, opposing incumbent Rep. Gloria Johnson, met with Gov. Bill Haslam for over 20 minutes Sept. 17 when Haslam was in Knoxville to promote passage of Amend-ment 2 on the judicial selec-tion process. Smith wants Bill and Crissy Haslam to campaign for him.

Apparently that may oc-cur. This is most contested race in Knox County on Nov. 4.

Mayor Rogero will be strongly backing Johnson and Cheri Siler for state senator, which will place her in direct opposition to the governor on these two can-didates. Johnson is favored, but Smith is a credible can-didate.

■ U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Richard Stair Jr. is retiring after a distinguished 28-year ca-reer in the federal judiciary, and a reception is being

TEA gets a winBy Sandra Clark

A local case with state-wide implications was over-turned by the state Court of Appeals in late August, and the Union County Board of Education voted Sept. 18 not to appeal that decision.

Chancellor Andrew Till-man had ruled in favor of Union County Public Schools in a case involving a teacher who wanted his Union County Education Association representa-tive with him when he was questioned by a supervisor about student allegations of misconduct. The supervisor refused.

Director of Schools Jim-my Carter later took no ac-tion on the charges, which led Tillman to opine that the UCEA’s lawsuit was without merit since the teacher had suffered no damage. The teacher’s name was redact-ed in all documents.

Chief Judge Charles Su-sano delivered the appellate court’s decision: The em-ployee had a right under the state’s 2011 Collaborative Conferencing Act to have an organizational representa-tive present “at an investi-gative interview where the

employee reasonably be-lieves the investigation may result in disciplinary action against him or her.”

Also, “the Association has organizational stand-ing to pursue this action on behalf of its members,” Susano wrote. The court vacated the judgment of the trial court and remanded the case. Costs on appeal were assessed to the Union County Board of Education.

The board amended its agenda to add the item and passed vice chair Brad Griffey’s motion to drop the appeal without debate.

We contacted the Tennes-see Education Association on Friday, and a representa-tive confi rmed the organiza-tion would notify its mem-bers and put out a general press release. TEA had been awaiting a possible appeal to the state Supreme Court.

It’s a big win for the TEA since many assumed the Collaborative Conferencing Act had negated members’ right to representation.

Of course, the organiza-tion should not crow too loudly. Legislators can al-ways tighten the law in Jan-uary.

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As the owner of the “Up the Creek Gifts & Designs” shop in Knoxville, Ce-leste Reedy was always busy creating custom baskets and gifts for customers and running her own business. But her active life took a sudden detour when Reedy was sidelined by a double cancer diagnosis in April of 2013.

NEWS FROM PREMIER SURGICAL

For more information about Premier Surgical, visit www.premiersurgical.com.

Cancer patient

Celeste Reedy

designed an inspi-

rational t-shirt that

a physicians’ offi ce

is selling to benefi t

the Knoxville Komen

Race for the Cure.

Cancer survivor uses artistictalent to benefi t others

“It was the week of Palm Sunday,” remembers Reedy. “I couldn’t breathe, so I went to the Emergency Room. A scan showed a lymphoma wrapped around my throat and thyroid. It was cancer.”

Because the growth was cutting off Reedy’s airway, the mass was removed during an emergency surgery. But, Reedy’s troubles weren’t over.

“While I was still recovering in Critical Care, the doctors discovered a small but very aggressive spot of breast cancer.”

Reedy spent the next several months undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. “The chemo and radiation for lymphoma was similar to what’s used for breast cancer, so I had treatment for both cancers at the same time,” explains Reedy.

Reedy adjusted to life full of doc-tors’ appointments and treatments. “I’ve always been so healthy and active, it’s mindboggling how everything can turn around,” says Reedy.

To pass time while as she waited in doctors’ offi ces, Reedy began sketch-ing. “I’d draw fl owers and things I was familiar with. I’d get lost in drawing, it was therapeutic for me.”

Reedy was surprised when nurse Mary Krogh of Premier Surgical Asso-ciates at Parkwest, noticed her artwork and asked if Celeste would design a t-

shirt to sell for the offi ce’s annual Ko-men Race for the Cure fundraiser.

Krogh says Premier Surgical and the Parkwest offi ce have long been in-volved in the Knoxville Komen race. “The cancer fundraiser is a way we honor our families, friends and pa-tients affected by breast cancer,” ex-plains Krogh. “It’s very special to have a patient like Celeste design our shirt.”

Reedy says she’s honored to be a part of the offi ce’s effort. “The Premier Sur-gical staff and physicians have become my friends. I actually look forward to coming to my appointments here,” says Reedy. “I’m excited to do something that could possibly make a difference for other cancer patients.”

Reedy’s t-shirt design incorporates colorful fl owers with the words “Faith”, “Hope”, “Love”, and “Life”. “I’m very appreciative of life and no longer take lot of things for granted,” says Reedy.

Orders for the shirts are being ac-cepted at the Premier Surgical offi ce at Parkwest Medical Center. Proceeds will benefi t the Komen Knoxville Race for the Cure.

Shirt design

There’s an old joke that only three things matter in politics: Money, money and money.

Money pays for media advertising, yard signs, bill-boards and direct mail to voters. It allows a candidate to get his or her message out and reach folks who rarely pay attention to politics.

Yet, money isn’t usually as important in local cam-paigns because so few peo-

Scott Frith

High-turnout elections favor big-spending candidates

ple vote. A campaign doesn’t need a lot of money when you can fi t all the district’s voters into a high school gymnasium. For exam-ple, only 3,249 votes were

cast in the Sixth District’s (Northwest Knox County) school board primary elec-tion in May. In the Ninth District (South Knox), only 2,494 votes were cast.

Low-turnout, local elec-tions give more infl uence to members of special-interest groups such as teachers and neighborhood organiza-tions because these folks vote in higher numbers. Unsurprisingly, candidates

Now there’s a headline you can sink your teeth into.

LarryVan

Guilder

Great White spotted in Fort Loudoun?

The question mark is the fi rst hint it’s not true. The second is sharks’ well-known dislike of freshwater.

Topping this week’s “who knew?” list is a website call-ing itself “NY Meta” where items as dubious as this fi sh story are passed off as fac-tual.

A few weeks ago NY Meta published “news,” accompa-nied by video, of a terrifying incident. According to the story, a roller-coaster car fl ew off the tracks at Coney Island injuring eight people.

It was completely fab-ricated, yet thousands of social-media users bought into it. New York’s Econom-ic Development Corporation demanded the publisher take the story down, and NY Meta complied.

The story, if true, would have made headlines in le-gitimate newspapers and local and national news

broadcasts. That it didn’t failed to deter readers who tweeted, “This is why I don’t ride roller coasters” and similar sentiments for days after the article appeared.

The expansion of Internet access with its vast stores of knowledge at the disposal of anyone with a computer and a cable connection was sup-posed to usher in a Second Enlightenment. Instead, life imitating art, we’re daily reminded that “Dumb and Dumber” are just a mouse click away.

Print publications like the National Enquirer and Globe have long made a liv-ing with Elvis sightings and encounters with aliens. But word of mouth was about the only way to propagate their stories.

Now, Facebook and You-Tube claim more than a bil-lion users, and about 250 million of us gossip on Twit-ter. If only 1 percent of Face-book users are contenders for a Darwin* award, there are potentially 10 million people out there who believe the cream they ordered will melt belly fat and Repub-licans have an alternative national health insurance plan.

How gullible are we? Would Orson Welles’ “War

of the Worlds” radio play spark panic today?

If posted on YouTube and Facebook, the answer is it probably would. For mil-lions, if it’s on the Internet it must be true.

The dumbing down of America seems to accelerate at a pace consistent with the increase in bandwidth. You can get a lot of misinforma-tion a lot faster at 12 mega-bytes per second than you could in my misspent youth when 2400 baud was smok-ing hot.

The other day I heard a comedian tell of a 20-some-thing woman who aspired to a career as a volunteer – but she wanted to get paid for it. The word she was look-ing for, the comic said, was “employee.”

Stupid is as stupid surfs. But if you do spot a shark in Fort Loudoun, let us be the fi rst to know.

* The mythical Darwin is awarded for cleansing the gene pool. Recent recipients include the 43-year-old man who took a swig of golden liquid from a salsa jar think-ing it was a cocktail. It was gasoline, which he immedi-ately spit out. To soothe his nerves he lit a cigarette. He died the next day at a burn center.

Bearden resident is state’s new AGTennessee is in great

hands with Herbert Slatery III as state a t t o r n e y g e n e r a l , says Steve Mc S w e e n , p r e s i d e n t of Egerton, McAfee, Ar-mistead & Davis P.C.

S l a t e r y and McSween worked to-gether for 26 years before Slatery took up his previous post as chief legal counsel to Gov. Bill Haslam in 2011. They were also next-door neighbors in the Bearden area.

Slatery is fair, hard-working and a great man-

Herb Slatery

Wendy Smith

ager, McSween says, which will come in handy as he manages a very, very large law fi rm.

While at Egerton, McAfee, Slatery specialized in fi nance, corporate gov-ernance, capital formation, real estate, and sales and acquisitions of businesses. He was president of the fi rm from 1998 to 2007, and chair from 2008 to 2011.

“He’s a lawyer’s lawyer.

Other attorneys go to him for advice,” says McSween.

Slatery served as chair, director and general counsel of the Public Building Au-thority of Knox County and Knoxville, and was a lawyer for the county’s Industrial Development Board.

He grew up here and is a huge supporter of Knox-ville, McSween says. He was very active at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, and his two grown children live here.

Slatery will be just the second Republican attor-ney general in state history. Tennessee is the only state where the Supreme Court names the attorney general. It’s an eight-year term.

favored by these groups of-ten win local elections be-cause their voters make up a larger percentage of the electorate.

But a high-turnout elec-tion changes everything.

In a high-turnout elec-tion, teachers and neigh-borhood organizations have less infl uence because they comprise a smaller percentage of voters. Also, when there are more voters, money plays an increased role because a campaign can reach out to unaffi liated voters who may not follow local politics every day.

This brings us to the up-coming special election for school board.

In the Second District, Indya Kincannon has re-signed, and there are three candidates running to re-place her in November: Charlotte Dorsey, Jamie Rowe and Tracie Sanger.

The conventional wis-dom is that Jamie Rowe is favored to win. Rowe has a

long history of community involvement and is a model candidate for a low-turnout, local election for school board or City Council.

Yet, the upcoming No-vember election will feature far more voters than a typi-cal school board race. For example, in the May 2014 election, 27,969 votes were cast countywide. In Au-gust, 60,744 votes were cast countywide. Expect more than 100,000 votes to be c ast this November.

A higher turnout favors the candidate who spends more money. Tracie Sanger is not only an educator, but a proven fundraiser widely-praised for her work raising money for the Shannondale Elementary School Founda-tion. Sanger will have little trouble raising money and is expected to run a strong, community-based cam-paign.

While Rowe might have had the advantage if the election were held in an-

other election cycle, Sanger may defy expectations and win in November’s high-turnout special election. High-turnout elections favor big-spending can-didates. Expect Sanger to spend a lot of money.Scott Frith is a local attorney. You can

reach him at [email protected].

GOV NOTES ■ 3rd/4th District Democrats

meeting, 6 p.m. Thursday,

Sept. 25, Bearden Branch

Library, 100 Golf Club Road.

Guest speakers: Becky Har-

mon, Emily Gregg and George

Shields.

■ Truman Day Dinner, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 2, The Foundry,

747 World’s Fair Park Drive.

Tickets: $60; $70 after Sept.

28. Info/tickets: https://secure.

actblue.com/contribute/

page/trumanday2014; info@

knoxvilledemocrats.org;

540-4001.

■ Democratic Women’s Club meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 14,

Shoney’s on Western Avenue.

Info: 742-8234.

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Marvin West

Athens, Ga., is a good place to play football – genuine college town, en-thusiastic fans, signifi cant history, sideline hedges that make the arena unique.

My favorite football trip to Georgia was 45 years ago, last day of October, fi rst of November 1969. The Volunteers arrived 5-0 and No. 3 in the country. Whip-ping up on Alabama in Birmingham the Saturday before had infl uenced poll voters. Tennessee jumped four places.

Georgia was ranked 11th. Vince Dooley thought his team deserved better. Could be he was right. The Bull-dogs had won 16 in a row at home. The defense was great, permitting only 86 yards a game.

Best trip to Georgia

Tickets were tight. Stand-ing-room-only was sold out. Excitement was peaking. The university newspaper declared this the game of the decade. A radio station kept interrupting songs and commentary with some-body yelling, “Go you hairy Dogs!”

I suppose this was what Southeastern Conference competition was supposed to be.

I had watched four days

of Tennessee preparation. Doug Dickey had a good idea. Bobby Scott was going to throw to Lester McClain and Gary Kreis and Ken DeLong and maybe swing it out to tailback Don McLeary in the fl at.

Sophomore fullback Curt Watson was going to keep the Bulldogs honest with inside yardage behind Chip Kell, Don Denbo and Mike Bevins. I didn’t ask, but I am confi dent the Vols were confi dent. They had a really good team.

You’ve heard about the best-laid plans of mice and men – well, cold rain came to town on Friday and didn’t go away. You could almost hear Ray Charles or Brook Benton doing “Rainy Night in Georgia.”

It was really wet on Sat-urday. Dickey and offensive coordinator Jimmy Dunn met with Scott to discuss the switch from Plan A to Plan B, if weather became a factor.

It did. The day would have been really bad if it hadn’t been so good.

Tennessee endured an early hiccup. Midway through the fi rst quarter, Watson lost the wet ball in a tight situation. Georgia re-covered at the UT 5. Bulldog fans were delirious.

Tennessee’s defensive front dug in. Three plays gained one yard. Georgia kicked a fi eld goal. For the fi rst time that season, Ten-nessee was behind.

Watson responded. Home guys couldn’t handle him. Piston legs and slick nylon pants led to missed tackles and hurt feelings – and shoulders and heads. Curt ran over a few obsta-

cles. He turned the lovely turf, nurtured with tender, loving care, into his very own muddy loblolly. He gained 197 yards on 19 car-ries and wanted more.

Georgia fans did not suf-fer in silence. Some threw oranges. Denbo peeled one and ate it. Watson noticed the commotion, raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Gotcha.Scott, the quarterback,

explained the mismatch: “Curt was a great back. He was very diffi cult to bring down under normal condi-tions. He was a powerful man with exceptional bal-ance. He took a lot of hits and kept on going.”

Off the fi eld: Wife Sar-ah sat through a fi rst-half soaking and retreated to our car. She would tolerate Larry Munson’s broadcast of excuses in the dry. Alas, the car battery ran down. Sarah hiked across the

sloppy parking lot, found a service truck, got a quick re-charge and was ready to roll when my three stories were written.

Her shoes gave her away. She told me about the di-lemma. Her winning rally raised my forever respect. I awarded all-American hon-ors. Curt was second team. For both, it was a signature game.

Almost forgot: Tennessee won, 17-3. As usual, line-backers Steve Kiner, Jack Reynolds and Jackie Walker got most of the defensive credit. Tim Priest and Bill Young discouraged despera-tion bombs.

As wet games go, it was an unforgettable adventure. Going to Georgia may never be so fi ne.

There are many such stories in Marvin

West’s fi rst book, “Tales of the Tennessee

Vols,” now a possible collector’s item.

Purchase information available at

[email protected].

Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge has received a grant for $137,108 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The funds will be used to develop a new “Kids in Action!” healthy-living exhibit and programs to support healthy nutri-tion, healthy activity, STEM education and community wellness.

The museum will partner with East Tennessee Chil-dren’s Hospital, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension to

offer a human-body exhibit and “Peppy Pepper,” a fi t-ness trail mascot, to raise awareness of the benefi ts of a healthy lifestyle.

“Our grants are highly competitive,” said institute director Susan H. Hildreth. “(IMLS) enlists hundreds of library and museum professionals throughout the United States to re-view grant applications and make recommendations on projects most worthy of funding. Receiving a grant from IMLS is a signifi cant achievement, and we con-

gratulate Children’s Muse-um of Oak Ridge for beingamong the 2014 IMLS mu-seum grantees.”

“We are excited to beginthe project and look for-ward to forming new part-nerships in the communityto work with us in this ef-fort,” said the museum’s ex-ecutive director, Mary AnnDamos. “I am very gratefulto the Institute of Museumand Library Services forthis grant award and for allof the work they do for mu-seums and libraries acrossthe nation.”

South-Doyle High School alumnus Bryce B rentz was called up from the minors by the Boston Red Sox last week. He hit a double in his fi rst major-league at-bat.

Brentz, 25, pinch-hit for pitcher Clay Buchholz in the fi fth inning. Unfortunately, his big break came during a 9-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates last Wednesday.

Drafted by the Red Sox in the fi rst round of the Ma-jor League Baseball Draft

in 2010, the outfi elder also played for Middle Tennes-see State University.

■ Current Chero-kee senior Joc Bruce, a Tennessee commit, also got some media buzz last week. As of press time, a video showing him tackling a Hardin Valley Academy receiver so hard his oppo-nent’s helmet popped off had had 498,266 views on YouTube. The video also was picked up by espn.com.

SPORTS NOTES Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge receives grant

Seen at the FairSouth-Doyle High School artists exhibited work at the recent Tennessee Valley Fair student art show. From left are Jakob Harper

and Nick Yuhas with their teacher, Ron Hickman, and Jonathan Casas, teacher Carol Vinson, Juli Daughtery and Abby Butler. Photosubmitted

South-Doyle athletes in the news

Oak Ridge comes in un-beaten after rolling big at McMinn County last week. Gibbs is hot, too, the Eagles winning for the fi rst time – ever – at Halls last week.

The Wildcats, who over-whelmed McMinn Coun-ty 35-0 with a relentless ground game last week, pulled away to win this one fairly handily last sea-son, but Gibbs will come to play. Much will depend on how the Eagles fare at slow-ing the Oak Ridge running game.

Last season: Gibbs (3-2, 1-2 4AAA), Oak Ridge (4-0, 2-0)

Last meeting: 2013 – Oak Ridge 57, Gibbs 28

The offenses: The Ea-gles run the triple option, and they’re very good at it. The Wildcats attack out of the spread.

The defenses: Gibbs

Stefan Cooper

Showdown in CorrytonGibbs, Oak Ridge enter red-hot in key district clash

tailors the defense to that week’s opponent. Oak Ridge defends from a 3-4 loaded with linebackers.

The Breakdown: Oak Ridge has plenty of weap-ons on offense, and Wildcat quarterback Logan Fadnek hasn’t been stingy when it comes to spreading the ball around.

Fadnek’s stable of re-ceiving options starts with sophomore tight end Tee Higgins. At 6-foot-4, he’s hard to miss. Senior wide outs Ted Mitchell, Brandon Bonds and Jemiah Hall are also dangerous. On the ground, Isaiah Jones and

junior Jaylen Nickerson, a Maryville transfer, have both had big nights so far this season.

While Oak Ridge won go-ing away last season, Gibbs did put four touchdowns in the Wildcat defense, and much of the running game that did it is back.

Senior quarterback Pres-ton Booth spurs the Eagles offense. He ran for bet-ter than 800 yards and 16 touchdowns last season and is on an even better pace this fall. Fullback Silas Joiner and slot back Bren-dan Wilson, both seniors, combined for more than 1,300 yards in a 2013 cam-paign that saw Gibbs get hot down the stretch and make the playoffs.

On defense, the Eagles will have one of the best players on the fi eld on ei-ther side of the ball in 6-3,

250-pound senior defensiveend Hunter Lane, an All-State selection last fall.

Why this one in-trigues: A win puts Gibbsright in the thick of the dis-trict race with Oak Ridgeand frontrunner AndersonCounty (5-0, 2-0), third-place Campbell County (4-1,2-1) and Knox Central (3-1, 2-1). With an Oak Ridgewin, the Wildcats and Mav-ericks could begin to pullaway from the fi eld.

As good as Oak Ridge haslooked so far this season,paired with last season’swin at Blankenship Field,the Wildcats enter the fa-vorite, but don’t sell Gibbsshort.

With the Eagles still fl y-ing high from their win atHalls last week, all bets areoff for this year’s clash withthe Wildcats in Corryton. IfOak Ridge has any troublegetting a handle on the Ea-gles’ option offense, it couldget really, really interesting.

You’ll know a lot after thefi rst couple of times Gibbshas the ball.

Special Day at DogwoodDogwood Elementary School celebrated family recently

with a Grandparents Day Luncheon that was attended

by up to four generations. Billie Spires, Karen Talley and

Whitney Talley join Madalynne Mathis for the event. Karen

went to Giffi n School before it became part of Dogwood;

Whitney was a Dogwood Dolphin, and Madalynne is a

current Dolphin.

Beverly Payne and daughter Alyssa Payne enjoy the spe-

cial luncheon.

Tayliee Carver gets to spend time with grandmother Sta-

cey Kurtz. Photos submitted

■ Annual golf tournamentto benefi t the Central High

School softball program

will be Saturday, Oct. 18, at

Whittle Springs Golf Course.

Format: four-man scramble.

Registration fee: $240

per team of four, which

includes green fee, cart and

catered lunch. Registration:

7:30 a.m.; shotgun start:

8:30 a.m. Info: Brent Walker,

237-6507.

■ Players/teams needed for H3 Hoops, a youth

basketball team league.

Leagues: 6U, 7U, 8U, 9U, 10,

11U, 6th grade, 7th grade,

8th grade, High School JV,

High School Varsity. Info:

chris@whitfi eldsports.com

or 389-5998.

SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 • 7 business

THROUGH MONDAY, OCT. 27Deadline for membership application, Knox-

ville Watercolor Society. Applications for jurying pro-cess: www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com. Info: Kate McCullough, 604-1406 or [email protected].

THROUGH SATURDAY, OCT. 18Reservations open for Hoot ’N Holler Autumn

Express steam trains events. Schedule: 9:45 a.m., 1 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18; 1 and 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19. Departure: new depot, 2560 Univer-sity Commons Way, in the University Commons Plaza. Info/reservations: www.ThreeRiversRambler.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24“Weston Fulton Changed the World,” a Brown

Bag Lecture by Dewaine Speaks, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8700.

Computer Workshops: Word 2007 II, 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 25Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing

Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway. All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge. Door prizes.

Knox County Veterans Services Outreach, 9-10 a.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. One-on-one assistance to veterans and family members. Info: 215-5645, [email protected].

Faculty lecture: “From Mary Poppins to Malefi -cent: Professorial Persona and Student Perception” by Pellissippi State assistant professor Anne Pharr, 12:30 p.m., Goins Building Auditorium, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public. Info: 694-6400 or www.pstcc.edu/arts.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPT. 25-26AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 11

a.m.-3 p.m. both days, Strang Senior Center, 109 Lovell

Heights Road. Cost: $10. Info/to register: 670-6693. AARP Driver Safety class, 1-5 p.m., Asbury Place,

2648 Sevierville Road, Maryville. Info/to register: Caro-lyn Rambo at 584-9964.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 26Deadline to register for Senior Appreciation

Picnic hosted by Mayor Tim Burchett, to be held 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, John Tarleton Park, 3201 Division St. Includes lunch, live music and a vendor expo. Free to all Knox County seniors. RSVP: 215-4007.

Midnight in Savannah, 7 p.m.-midnight, Club LeConte, 2700 Plaza Tower, 800 S. Gay St. Cost: $50 per person. All proceeds benefi t the Scarecrow Foundation, ALS Therapy Development Institute’s Augie’s Quest and the Employee Partners Care Foundation. Info/to regis-ter: www.clubleconte.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 Jack Herranen & the Little Red Band, 8 p.m.,

Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Admission: $12; some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

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

Life 101: Free Classes for Teens, 2 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library. Topic: Nutrition Basics for Teens. In-structor: Shannon Reynolds, MPH Corporate Wellness Manager, UT Medical Center. Info: Bess, 215-8754.

Golf tournament for Freedom Christian Academy, Three Ridges Golf Course. Shotgun start, 8:30 p.m. Fee: $300/team of four. Info: Kara Robertson, 525-7807.

Free Flu Shot Saturday, 8 a.m.-noon, Austin-East, Carter, Farragut, Halls and West high schools and South-Doyle Middle School. Donations accepted to benefi t Empty Stocking Fund.

Orquesta D’Jimmy Bonilla with the Music City Salsa dancers, 7 p.m., Market Square. Kickoff celebra-tion for HoLa Festival. Free. Info: www.holafestival.org.

Family Fun Day, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Explore new exhibit “Birds, Bugs, and Blooms: Natural History Illustration from the 1500s–1800s.” Free. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

Fall plant sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., UT Gardens located just off Neyland Drive behind the UT Veterinary Medical Center. Info: utgardens.tennessee.edu.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 28Ribbon cutting for the town of Farragut’s new Out-

door Classroom, 1 p.m., Campbell Station Road at the entrance to Farragut High School. Info: 966-7057.

Green Earth, Blue Skies – A National Public Lands Day Event, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Founders Park at Campbell Station. Schedule of events: www.townoffarragut.org/publiclandsday. Info: Jason Scott, [email protected]; Lauren Cox, [email protected]; 966-7057.

Autism Family Day, 1-5 p.m., The Muse in Chil-howee Park. Sensory-friendly planetarium shows: 2, 3 and 4 p.m. Activities supervised by Artistic Spectrum; refreshments by the Autism Society of East Tennessee. Reduced admission: $3 per person, ages 2 and up; under 2, free. Info: www.asaetc.org.

“Stories in Every Jar,” free storytelling by mem-bers of the Smoky Mountain Storytellers, 3-5 p.m., Back Porch, 805 Parkway, Gatlinburg. Info: 429-1783 or www.smokymountaintellers.org.

Lantern and Carriage Tour, 4-7 p.m., Old Gray Cemetery, 543 N. Broadway. Cost: Adults, $10; students, $5; carriage, $5. Re-enactors, carriage rides and more. Info: 522-1424; [email protected].

HoLa Festival, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Market Square. A celebration of Hispanic culture with music, dance, arts, crafts, food and family entertainment. Free. Info/sched-ule: www.holafestival.org.

Motorcycle ride with Knoxville Harley-David-son, 11 a.m. Part of “Gator Hator Week” events. Recom-mended donation: $20; $5 each extra rider. Proceeds benefi t The Love Kitchen. Presented by the Scarecrow Foundation. Info: www.gatorhator.com.

“Children in the Arts,” 2:30 p.m., Amphitheatre at World’s Fair Park. Presented by Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble as a part of the Penny for the Arts series. Adult tickets: $7, children/student tickets: one penny. Info: Irena Linn, 584-9636, [email protected].

MONDAY, SEPT. 29Gator Hator Golf Classic, 11 a.m., Beaver Brook

Country Club, 6800 Beaver Brook Drive. $125 per player. Part of “Gator Hator Week” events. Proceeds benefi t the Love Kitchen. Presented by the Scarecrow Foundation. Info: www.gatorhator.com.

Deadline to purchase tickets for Knoxville’s Founders Day Luncheon and Benefi t, to be held noon Friday, Oct. 3, The Foundry, 747 World’s Fair Park Drive. Featured speaker: U.S. Rep. John J Duncan Jr. Proceeds to Historic Homes of Knoxville. Info: www.KnoxTIX.com or 523-7543

Classes in Olympic fencing, Medieval longsword, Renaissance rapier, and Victorian military saber are held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive. Visitors welcome; fi rst lesson free. Info: 321-1214, email [email protected], or drop in.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30Gator Hator Poker Classic, part of “Gator Hator

Week” events. Must qualify to enter: Buckethead Tavern, Doc’s, Downtown Grill & Brewery, Latitude 35, Twisted Mike’s. Proceeds benefi t The Love Kitchen. Info: www.gatorhator.com.

Information session for LMU’s Caylor School of Nursing, 3-7 p.m., Cedar Bluff extended learning site, 421 Park 40 North Blvd. No preregistration required. Info: 800-325-0900, ext. 6324; or email [email protected] or [email protected].

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Holtz earned his master’s in commu-nications from the University of Tennes-see in 1998, and his bach-

elor’s in mass communica-

tion from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1992.

He and wife Sarah live in Knoxville with their rescue dog, Marley. Holtz replaces Dr. Kathleen Brown, who recently ac-cepted a position with the University of Tennessee’s Department of Public Health.

By Sandra ClarkYou can hear her dad-

dy when state Sen. Becky Massey speaks. She abso-lutely blew me away with her testimony before a con-gressional committee last week. It was a spur-of-the-moment invitation. Massey had been working with Halls residents to extend the TDOT greenway grant set to expire Sept. 30. When Mayor Tim Burchett de-cided to go ahead and break ground, I phoned Massey’s offi ce with details on the Thursday ceremony.

“She can’t come,” said her assistant, Debbie Gazzaway. “She’s presenting to Con-gress.”

Seems Sen. Lamar Al-exander had asked her to talk about barriers faced by people with disabilities. She gave the Senate Committee on Health, Education, La-bor and Pensions (did they mean for the acronym to be HELP?) an earful. Her pre-sentation was so strong that we can’t do it justice here. Read the full text at www.help.senate.gov/imo/me-dia/doc/Massey1.

“A meaningful job can make a difference in the lives of people with disabili-ties just as it does for all citi-zens. Every person, regard-less of hardship, disability and prejudice, can excel if given the opportunity,” she said. “For them a job means more than just a paycheck. It means truly being part of the community.”

The presentation was tightly organized and ended with 14 specifi c solutions within the reach of Con-gress. Massey has worked

One thing’s for sure: James Liford and Cor-rie McKinney care deeply about animals. Determined to create awareness about furry friends needing for-ever homes, the engaged couple have opened Second Chance Pet Rescue in Knox-ville Center Mall.

Tennessee state Sen. Becky

Massey advocates in Wash-

ington for people with dis-

abilities.

Michael Holtz

Owners Corrie McKinney and James Liford, along with manager Christy Ryder and assistant

manager Brandi Cook, prepare to open Second Chance Pet Rescue at Knoxville Center Mall. Photo by Nancy Whi ttaker

Giving furry friends a second chance

Nancy Whittaker

Partnering with Blount County Animal Center, their goal is to fi nd loving homes for animals that might oth-erwise be euthanized.

Cats and dogs, kittens and puppies, rabbits and fer-rets – many animals will be delivered to Second Chance by Blount County Animal Center. All shots will be up to date, and all animals will have been spayed or neu-tered and checked out to make sure they are healthy and adoptable.

Potential adoptive fami-lies are given an application form to determine which pet best suits their needs. Those adopting a large dog are re-quired to have a fenced-in yard. Prospective owners enjoy a climate-controlled viewing area to select their pet. In most cases, pets can be taken home the same day.

Adoption fees vary but start as low as $40, and proceeds help the efforts of Blount County Animal Center.

Pet supplies are available in all price ranges, but Sec-ond Chance specializes in affordable items for the new “family member.”

Second Chance is also working with Blount County Animal Center to fi nd new homes for pets whose cur-rent owners can no longer care for them.

Liford and McKinney want Second Chance to ben-efi t the community. They al-ready have two devoted vol-unteers. Manager Christy Ryder and assistant manag-er Brandi Cook are both en-

thusiastic and dedicated to the cause. There is no doubt that these four will succeed.

Additional volunteers and sponsors are needed. Sponsors can donate food, toys, blankets or other needed items. Sponsors can also select a pet or two each month and pre-pay their adoption fee. Several spon-sors have already signed up, including Wayward Arts, a new neighboring business at the mall, and Sears.

Everyone is invited to the grand opening 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Door prizes, refreshments and pet adoptions will be available. Second Chance is on the upper level of Knox-

ville Center Mall near Sears. Check them out on Face-book or call 556-7896.

■ Justin’s surpriseThe East Towne Area

Business and Professional Association will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the New Harvest Park Community Center. Presi-dent Justin Sterling plans a big announcement for the group.

Carolyn Pointer Neil, president of Elder Advo-cates, will speak. Sterling invites all businesses along the East Towne corridor to attend, and come a little early and join the group for breakfast!

Massey urges inclusion, jobs for disabled

21 years as a disability pro-vider and is currently ex-ecutive director of the Ser-toma Center.

Hers was not a bleeding-heart call for more welfare. Instead, it was a thoughtful plan to get physically and mentally challenged indi-viduals specifi c job training in high school coupled with incentives for businesses that hire them. Massey wants to eliminate the “cul-tural mindset of low expec-tations” that implies the dis-abled are unable to work.

Wow. In a poisonous at-mosphere of political got-cha, Becky Duncan Massey presented a plan for action based on her life’s work in the private sector. It’s not enough to be against most everything. Citizens pay taxes and deserve a gov-ernment that works. Last Thursday’s testimony shows why we ought to send Becky Massey to Washington more frequently … and per haps full time.

Holtz joins Health Department

Michael Holtz has joined the Knox County Health Department as director of community assessment and health promotion. He comes to KCHD after 12 years with the American Cancer

Society and its Cancer Action Network’s 14-state Southern region.

Holtz will oversee adolescent pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS awareness, teen health promotion, violence and unintentional injury pre-vention, TENNderCARE, and the epidemiology program.

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