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VOL. 6 NO. 13 A great community newspaper March 26, 2012
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IN THIS ISSUE
Theresa Edwards A2Community A3Government/Politics A4Marvin West A5Malcolm Shell A6Faith A7Schools A8-9Business A10Health/Lifestyles Sect B
Index
Knox Vegas to Big Apple
Read a story about a lo-cal guy who made it from local theater to the lights of Broadway, discover a quaint Italian joint on Restaurant Row and much more in the spring edition of New York to Knoxville.
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China painting from Brazil
Porcelain artist Alfredo Toledano came from Brazil to teach a two-day china painting workshop at Ruth Widener’s studio in West Knoxville.
Toledano, a professional china painter for 40 years, lives with his family in Brazil but travels six months each year teaching workshops and university classes. In May, he will go to Canada for the fi rst time. In January, he will teach classes in Oklahoma City dur-ing the World Organization of China Painters Convention.
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A rainbow of spring color marks the inter-
section of Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi
Park on the Sequoyah Hills Dogwood Trail.
Almost time for the dance
By Anne HartAhh. Don’t we love it? It’s that time of year when Knoxville puts on its
prettiest clothes and its brightest colors – all in preparation for the big dance.
The countdown is on for opening day of the Dog-wood Arts Festival, the annual 17-day event that put our city on the map, thanks to the efforts of Knox-ville Garden Club members Betsey Creekmore, Mar-tha Ashe and Betsy Goodson. The three had taken great umbrage at writer John Gunther’s reference to their hometown as “America’s ugliest city” and de-cided to do something about it.
The women and lots of willing helpers started it all with the Dogwood trails in 1955, and now, all these years later, all over town right now, home-owners are out in their yards and city crews are in the streets. They’re putting the final touches on our loveliest things – almost ready for the annual open house that brings thousands to Knoxville to see just how pretty we can be.
So whether you’re digging, planting, raking, pruning or just enjoying the view … let the big dance begin. Knoxville is ready!
At Dancers’ Studio on Sutherland
Avenue, the wooded setting pro-
vides the perfect backdrop for the
stark white sculpture surrounded
by yellow and white daff odils, tulips
and delicate narcissus. A sea of yellow tulips drifts across the front lawn at his-
toric Crescent Bend on Kingston Pike.
Many parts of town seem wrapped
in a spring gauze of blooming color:
redbuds, dogwood, magnolia, fl ow-
ering crab and other early bloomers. Photos by Anne Hart
Glorious spring color at the waterwheel marks the
beginning of the Westmoreland dogwood trail off
Westland Drive.
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By Betty BeanThe row of Leyland
Cypress trees behind the homes on Cresthill Drive was planted by the devel-opers of the Summit Medi-cal Group at Deane Hill to screen the neighborhood from the clinic parking lot. As they grew, the trees de-livered the additional bo-nus of muffl ing the sound of Kingston Pike traffi c, a short block away.
But last Saturday, the Summit evergreens were scheduled to be cut down and reduced to woodchips because they were more than 15 feet tall and stood within 75 feet of a TVA transmission line, as per the utility’s new transmis-sion line easement main-tenance policy. TVA power lines are strung 60 feet off the ground.
“This is a good example
of what’s going to happen all over town,” said tree advocate Larry Silverstein, who planned to protest TVA’s tree-cutting policy at today’s County Com-mission meeting. Com-missioner R. Larry Smith requested that TVA send a representative to explain why it is cutting down vegetation that will never grow tall enough to endan-ger the power lines.
TVA representatives have told property owners that trees standing more than 15 feet high must be removed because the Fed-eral Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) re-quires it, on peril of $1 mil-lion a day fi nes.
“TVA has lied consis-tently about government regulations,” Silverstein said. “Is there a federal rule that requires a utility
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TVA wages war on treesBy today (March 26), the trees behind Larry Sil-
verstein are no more. They were slated to be cut
by TVA because they were more than 15 feet tall
and planted within 75 feet of the transmission
lines. Photos by Betty Bean
to cut down all the trees? No. TVA has just not been honest about this from the get-go, and to me that’s a big thing. They claim they have to do it. The FERC
document says no such thing. This is just blatantly false to imply that they must cut them down. Fines up to a million dollars a day? I don’t think TVA has
ever been fi ned once.“No taller than 15 feet
within the easement is just not reasonable,” said
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Silverstein, who compiled packets of documentation for commission members. “These are 60-foot power lines. And that FERC stuff? Completely misleading. The public has no idea of the amount of destruction to private property and harm to the environment this policy will cause in the near future.
“If people want to change this policy, they’re going to have to get involved. I can-not do it by myself.”
TVA spokesperson Tra-vis Brickey cited a mul-tistate power blackout in 2003 as the reason for the more stringent regulations and said Silverstein’s major complaint is with the way the media have reported this story.
“We have been very consistent. After the 2003 blackout, FERC said, ‘TVA, you need to submit a veg-etation control policy that meets the new requirements and we’re going to hold you
to that. … Our decision was the way we’re going to com-ply with FERC is to cut in-stead of trim.”
Chris Szluha has lived on Green Hills Road since 1998. A TVA transmission line borders his backyard, and in 2009, the utility no-tifi ed him that it planned to remove four of his trees. After considerable wran-gling, he entered into an agreement – TVA promised not to cut down the trees if
he would have a large sweet gum trimmed. It cost him more than $800, but he thought that meant his trees were safe.
A few weeks ago, he heard from TVA again. The trees had to come down. Crews, accompanied by members of TVA’s internal police force, showed up on his property to start cutting.
“They had said if I trimmed the tree they wouldn’t cut it ‘this year,’ ” Szluha said.
“But in three years, it barely grew at all. It was an old, full-grown tree. Tell me how that was a hazard.”
The subcontractors also clear-cut a wooded area be-hind his property, hacking down everything, including low-growing sumac, and in the process disturbing swarms of termites and fl y-ing ants, which then infest-
ed his home.“My backyard was like a
war zone,” he said.Brickey took issue with
that characterization, say-ing that TVA crews left Szlu-ha’s property the way they found it (minus the trees).
Margot Kline, who lives farther west and is a mem-ber of Scenic Knoxville, challenged TVA right-of-way
specialist Michael Nance’s claim that Leyland Cypress trees can grow 100 feet high. She said Nance’s claim is based on growing conditions in South Carolina.
“So TVA says Leyland Cy-prus grows up to 100 feet tall and UT Extension says they grow 15-25 feet tall. TVA is not giving people good in-formation or enough notice and not really explaining why they are doing this,” Kline said. “I understand if we have power outages it costs everyone money, but I think Larry (Silverstein) has good evidence that this is not the case. There are public spaces that are just going to be decimated. We’re talking dogwoods, crape myrtles, redbuds, crab apples and all these ornamental trees. That does not make sense to me.”
Kline said that Catholic High School and the Cedar Bluff Racquet Club have also had trees cut and that residents of Kensington subdivision have been put on notice that they are next.
“This is something that af-fects a lot of property values.”
This “chocolate box” is hand
painted by Alfredo Toledano
with a classic Dresden
art style. It is
French Limoges
China.
Porcelain artist Alfredo Toledano came from Brazil to teach a two-day china painting workshop at Ruth Widener’s studio in West Knoxville.
Theresa Edwards
China painting with a c
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Ruth Widener on her 90th birth-
day gets an autographed photo
from Dolly Parton. Widener has
participated at the Dollywood
Fall Craft Festival for 25 years.
Mary Mulherin paints china
during Alfredo Toledano’s
workshop.
Directly from Brazil
Toledano, a profes-sional china painter for 40 years, lives with his fam-ily in Brazil but travels six
months each year teaching workshops and university classes. In May, he will go to Canada for the fi rst time. In January, he will teach class-es in Oklahoma City during the World Organization of China Painters Convention.
“I have the vocabulary needed to teach,” Toledano says. He mainly uses dem-onstration, showing paint-ing techniques. He does not have problems communi-cating except when ques-tions are diffi cult to under-stand. “It helps when they talk slowly.”
Widener and her stu-dents enjoyed the work-shop. “I’ve been lucky to study with a variety of good artists,” Widener said. “In August, Cindy Warren from Oklahoma will be here.”
Widener enjoys teaching
china paint-ing, saying, “I
have such won-derful students. They help keep
me going.”She is a member
of the Knoxville Por-celain Artists Club which meets at 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday at Middlebrook Pike United Methodist Church.
Widener enjoys gift-ing her art and sharing it with others. Her class en-
joys time with each other as much as they like china painting, she said.
Info on Widener’s class or the Knoxville Porcelain Artists Club: 693-0865.
Chris Szluha, who has
lived on Green Hills
Road since 1998, said
his backyard was “like
a war zone” after TVA
crews chopped down
trees and stirred up
a swarm of termites
and fl ying ants.
Shopper writer Anne Hart found a cutting crew in Kensington
subdivision off Northshore Drive on Thursday. “The puny little
pine trees are nowhere near the power lines. But cutting them
down will horribly damage the value of the homes those trees are
behind, and really of the entire neighborhood. The topography is
so that those little pines have pretty much shielded the neighbor-
hood from the sight of the towers. No more.”
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BEARDEN NOTES ■ Downtown Speakers Club
meets 11:45 a.m. every Mon-
day at TVA West Towers, 9th
fl oor, room 225. Currently ac-
cepting new members. Info:
Jerry Adams, 202-0304.
■ UT Toastmasters Club
meets noon every Tuesday
at the Knoxville Convention
Center on Henley Street in
room 218. Currently accept-
ing new members. Info: Sara
Martin, 603-4756.
■ West Knox Lions Club meets
7 p.m. each fi rst and third
Monday at Shoney’s on Lovell
Road.
■ West Knox Lions Club will
have its awards night 7 p.m.
Monday, April 2, at Bearden
Banquet Hall. Tickets are $25.
Info: Terry Horn, 661-1642.
■ West Knoxville Kiwanis
Club meets 5:30 p.m. every
Tuesday at Shoney’s on
Walker Springs Road.
■ A blanket drive will be held
through Monday, March 26,
at local Food City stores to
provide blankets for local
dialysis patients through
the East Tennessee Kidney
Foundation. New, packaged
blankets can be dropped
off at the Food City at 9565
Middlebrook Pike.
Akima sets Cabaret record
Knoxville’s Akima Club, a women’s service organization celebrating 65 years of ser-vice, performed its Cabaret show fundraiser in March at the Bijou Theatre and raised more than $100,000 in spon-sorships alone.
The show was sold out on Saturday night and Friday’s performance was a virtual sell out with fewer than 20 tickets being unsold. This year’s performance raised more money than any other performance.
The Cabaret is the club’s major fundraiser and is per-formed every other year. The dollars raised fund grants to more than 20 non-profi ts that Akima assists, including Ronald McDonald House, Helen Ross McNabb,
Sertoma Center and Sun-shine Industries.
Grants are only given for specifi c projects and are not awarded for salaries and/or operating expenses. These grant funds can only be used to directly aid the cli-ents served by the agencies.
Founded in 1947 as the Junior Woman’s Club, the Akima Club has given nearly a million dollars to orga-nizations in Knox and sur-rounding counties. Akima Club members donate 4,000 hours of volunteer work to the community annually.
And it seems the mem-bers have fun, too. This year’s Cabaret theme was “I Love Akima,” based off the “I Love Lucy” show.Wendy Mañalac contributed to this re-
port.
Ricky Martin (played by Akima member Abigail Jumper) is surrounded by go-go dancers and tappers in a scene at the “Tropi-
cana” night club. Photos submitted
Fred and Ethel Mertz (Jim Keeler and Cathy Herod), and Lucy and Ricky Ricardo (Linda Wise and Mike Hickman) are surrounded
by the orchestra’s sounds and dancing couple Bo Conner and Garlena Lee.
Rotary speech winner
Nikayla Buchanan, a student at
Karns High School, is the winner
of the Four Way Speech Contest
sponsored by the West Knox Ro-
tary Club. Accompanying Nikayla
(center) to the meeting, where
she received a check for $250,
were her dad, Robert Emory, and
Vicki Gibson, Karns High business
teacher. Nikayla is vice president
of her class and a straight-A stu-
dent. Photo by A.Hart
Rector to sign copies of new bookLocal author Joe Rector will sign copies of his new
book, “No Right Field for My Son,” 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at Double Dogs in Hardin Valley. His previ-ous book is “Baseball Boys.”
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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ The Aff ordable Health Care
Act (“Obamacare”) will be
the topic for the Third and
Fourth District Democrats.
Todd Shelton and Rick Roach
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March 27, at the Bearden
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Road. Info: Lorraine Hart, 850-
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■ Knox County Republican
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Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday,
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Knoxville is closer to getting a greenway coordi-nator to fi ll Donna Young’s shoes. Recreation Director Joe Walsh is recommend-ing Lori Goerlich and has sent her name to his boss, Christy Branscom, who ap-parently has not yet signed off on it. When I get a bio on her, I will provide more information on Goerlich as-suming she is the one cho-sen. She will have an impor-
Rogero budgetwill presage
greenway support
Can church ladies move mountains?
I wasn’t in Nashville last week, but I know enough about how things work down there to be able to de-scribe the scenario, and I’d bet my best imitation Louis Vuitton bag that last Mon-day’s Chattanooga Times-Free Press editorial cartoon got emailed out, printed off, passed around and guf-fawed about all over the Legislative Plaza.
But probably not where Rambo, the meanest hom-bre on Capitol Hill, could see them doing it.
To be fair, Ron Ramsey’s probably no different than anybody else when it comes to being made the butt of somebody else’s joke. Nobody’d be tickled to see himself caricatured stand-ing on top of a pile of Ben-jamins like he’d just sum-mited Everest, planting a banner that says “Campaign Cash” with a cartoon bal-loon that says, “There is one mountain I’ll protect.”
Nope, the Speaker of the Senate/Lt. Governor of Ten-nessee could not have been amused.
The cartoon, of course, referenced Scenic Vistas Protection, a bill written by Knoxville lawyer Dawn Coppock, who has spent the last fi ve years lobbying the General Assembly to ban mountaintop removal coal mining from Tennessee.
She has given ground in the process (the bill now ap-plies only to slopes 2,000 feet and above in altitude, for example), but she’s never given up, even after being dubbed the “Church Lady” and watching her bill killed off in obscure subcommit-tees year after year. She is one of the founders of LEAF, an environmental organiza-tion originally composed of
Not dead yet
members of the Church of the Good Shepherd, which is dedicated to a philosophy called Creation Care, the heart of which is that God frowns on stuff like blowing the tops off mountains.
And what the cartoon means is that people across the state are paying attention. The bill that started out as a minor annoyance to Ramsey, who has been the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the coal indus-try over the years, has grown into a major aggravation.
After LEAF supporters kicked off this year’s session with a highly publicized 40 days of prayer for the moun-tains, culminating with a grand fi nale in a Nashville church in January, Ramsey had had enough, and decid-ed to gut Coppock’s bill.
Nearly a month ago, the Senate’s Republican major-ity came up with a version of the Scenic Vistas bill that purports to ban mountaintop removal, but in reality only bans dumping the rubble for-merly known as mountains into surrounding valleys. Blowing the tops off is OK, as long as the remains are piled back up into mountainesque rock piles. Ramsey issued a press release declaring the mountains saved.
His enthusiasm will be tested April 2, when the de-coy bill is scheduled to go to the Senate fl oor, marking the fi rst time a mountaintop removal ban has gotten to the fl oor of any state legisla-tive body. The sponsor, Eric Stewart, will likely move to restore the original bill, and regardless of what the ma-jority does, the world will be watching.
tant post for those of us who care about greenways.
Donna Young’s salary was $49,000 and the new person will earn somewhat
less than that, I am told. If she does what is hoped, she will earn every penny of it.
The greenway coordina-tor will report to Walsh. Whether this person will have access to the mayor directly or will have to go through Walsh to Branscom to Bill Lyons or Eddie Man-nis and then to the mayor is unclear.
However, given Mayor Rogero’s strong, deeply felt commitment to a green city, the new coordinator ought to have direct access and not have their thoughts fi l-tered through three others before they reach the mayor.
Knoxville should be add-ing at least four miles a year of new greenways to our current system. It will not happen unless the greenway coordinator is seen as hav-ing the mayor’s personal support. I have no reason to doubt Mayor Rogero’s sup-
port of greenways, but the test will come with what is or is not in her budget to be unveiled on April 27.
■ Meanwhile, Lon-sdale Recreation Center, 2705 Stonewall, will get more space with the 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, event at which Rogero will help knock down a wall to start a $522,000 addition to the facility. According to Kathleen Gibi, recreation spokesperson, the renova-tion will include new rest-rooms, a new offi ce, new HVAC, computer lab space and a multipurpose room which can be used for var-ied community events.
KCDC is fronting $150,000 of the total cost. All represents good news for Lonsdale.
■ If former Sheriff Tim Hutchinson runs for state representative in the new Knox House district
and wins, it will represent a political comeback as stun-ning as Richard Nixon win-ning the White House in 1968 after losing the Cali-fornia governor’s race in 1962.
Remember, this is the same person who lost in a landslide to County May-or Tim Burchett only two years ago. Hutchinson did not even reach 20 percent of the total vote. If two years later he can win a seat in the Legislature he once again is a player in Knox County politics. If he serves two terms (four years), he will immediately qualify for a state legislative pension on top of the enhanced and controversial county pen-sion he now receives. As a state representative, he will be able to block or support local legislation which re-quires approval of all seven House members.
■ County Commis-sioner Amy Broyles raised eyebrows last week when she mentioned in-creasing the County Com-mission size back to 19 members. Not certain whether she is advocating this or simply throwing it out for discussion.
Broyles is a county char-ter committee member who is very vocal in meetings. Generally she is viewed as opposed to the old way of doing things, so it would be a surprise if she favored re-turning part of county gov-ernment to the old commis-sion with increased cost to taxpayers who would have to pay eight more commis-sioners’ salaries and pen-sions.
The huge 27-member charter committee is oper-ating under the radar screen with little media attention on its work.
Dollar for dollarAn analysis by those opposed to the sale of 22 acres to
KaTom asserts:
■ Purchase price of 380 +/- acres $9,462,454
■ Pat Wood commission $850,000
■ Infrastructure advance from County Commission $7,500,000
Total investment $17,812,454
Avg. cost per acre $46,875
■ KaTom’s proposed purchase price for 22 acres $550,000
■ Less grading allowance ($150,000)
Avg. cost per acre $18,181.82
In addition, KaTom is asking County Commission for
tax increment fi nancing (TIF) of $221,000 with a fi ve-year
recovery.
Shots fi red in Battle of Midway, part 2By Betty Bean
Second District County Commissioner Amy Broyles voted no on the Midway Busi-ness Park in 2010, in part be-cause of community opposi-tion and in part because she doesn’t support “greenfi eld” development, which she be-lieves leads to sprawl.
Today, she is undecided about The Development Cor-poration’s proposition to sell KaTom Restaurant Supply 22 acres of land at the Midway Road site and give them a substantial tax break to relo-cate from Hamblen County.
“There are a lot of reasons for me to like this company,” Broyles said at her monthly constituent meeting last week. “I want them in my district, where people could walk to work. This is exact-ly the kind of business the 2nd District wants. This is a community that would wel-come them with open arms.”
KaTom was founded by Patricia Bible and her hus-band, Tommy, who died some years ago, leaving his widow with children to raise and 17 employees to keep working. Today, the business is bursting at the seams and has 62 employees, most of whom will follow the com-pany to Knox County. TDC vice president Todd Napier said KaTom will hire 15 ad-ditional employees once the move is complete, and that the work force should num-ber 135 after fi ve years.
Napier said the problem with Broyles’ observation is that KaTom, which started in Bible’s garage, isn’t willing to look at other county prop-erty. Bible likes the Midway location because of its prox-imity to Hamblen and Jef-ferson counties, where she and most of her employees live, its interstate exposure and its location near the larger population center of Knoxville.
Bob Wolfenbarger, Todd Napier and Amy Broyles share a rare
moment of harmony after a vigorous discussion of KaTom Res-
taurant Supply’s proposal to open a new facility on the Midway
Business Park site. Photo by B. Bean
“I wish I had the ability to tell companies ‘This is where you need to be in Knox Coun-ty’ but they are telling us there are no other sites they are interested in. We have an opportunity to embrace this company, or they will go somewhere else,” said Napier.
Midway Business Park op-
ponent Bob Wolfenbarger, who still opposes develop-ment at Midway, listed po-tential problems, including not having a sewage treat-ment plant anywhere near the site.
“There’s no infrastruc-ture. There’s no sewer. It only recently got water…
The neighborhood’s primary concern is the area around it is heavily riddled with sinkholes. Most everybody up there is on well water and there is a huge concern about polluting the ground water,” Wolfenbarger said.
“At fi rst they were talk-ing about building a regional sewer plant in the vicin-ity of Seven Islands Wildlife Park. We think of the French Broad River as being the pri-mary water supply of the en-tire county of Knox. The ad-dition of those components to the water supply is not a desirable thing.”
Wolfenbarger also pre-dicted that KaTom’s impact on job creation will be mini-mal because it will bring most of its current employees along after the relocation. He said he doubts that a whole-sale operation can generate signifi cant sales tax revenue and he expressed skepticism that KaTom will live up to its end of the bargain.
Napier said Wolfenbarg-er’s speculation has no basis in fact and predicted that KaTom’s moving to Knox County will have spin-off benefi ts beyond tax revenue.
“The real value of a com-pany is the jobs and the life-styles it allows the employ-ees to enjoy,” he said.
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So, Tennessee football is starting over. Spring drills begin. Bright new faces. Ex-citing time.
In a previous beginning, we heard that newness is a problem for coaches, that it takes time to establish re-cruiting relationships. Some were obviously formed but seven-tenths went away in the mass exodus.
In the beginning, players and position coaches had to get to know each other. To-day, no Volunteer has the same position coach he had last year.
This is different, a world turnover record with the head coach still in place. We can only guess at why and how this happened.
It wasn’t money. For the convenience of Lane Kiffi n, Tennessee doubled the bud-get for assistant coaches.
Marvin West
Starting over
When it was Derek Dooley’s turn to spread the wealth, he hired medium-large names from different places and varied backgrounds. Defensive coordinator Jus-tin Wilcox was the star. Expectations and potential were high.
Nobody could have fore-seen that almost everybody would so soon be gone.
This is Tennessee. Great place to live. Rich tradition. Big ballpark. Enthusiastic fans. How much better does it get?
Bennie Wylie, strength and conditioning coach, started it. He worked out with the team – with his suitcase packed.
The Chuck Smith story was strange. This person-able former Volunteer was Dooley’s high school buddy. He would coach defensive linemen.
That renewed partner-ship lasted one whole sea-son. Personality confl ict? Different view of work hours? Smith and Dooley reached a “mutual decision” to part. Smith conducted a rambling press conference that did not explain any-thing.
No problem. The solution was in-house. Peter Sirmon, former standout with the Tennessee Titans and for-mer Oregon roommate with Wilcox, was a graduate as-sistant.
Lance Thompson became defensive line coach. Sir-mon, with name recognition
and personality, became a hot recruiter and very good coach of linebackers.
If there ever was staff sta-bility, last season broke it up. The 5-7 record with that messy fi nale at Kentucky created nervous tension. There were whispers that Dooley discipline was ad-justable. Critics, just waiting for proof of problems, said the coach might not make it. Rival recruiters told any-body who would listen.
Turnover, Phase II, start-ed with Charlie Baggett, long history of success, 11 years in the NFL. The press release said he retired at 58. A freedom of information peek showed Charlie was paid $425,000 to go away.
Harry Hiestand, sup-posedly a good offensive line coach when hired, got saddled with his fair share of a failed running attack. He was suddenly consider-ing other opportunities. He resurfaced at Notre Dame.
Eric Russell, tight ends and special teams, departed for Washington State. He later admitted he was seek-ing job security. Eric thinks the Vols are under pressure to win now.
Dooley showed no panic. “Sometimes you hate
losing them. Sometimes it’s good because some-times turnover is a healthy thing. Either way, it’s a great chance to say, ‘Hey, where can we get better through this?’ That’s what we’re go-ing to do.”
Additional opportunities followed. At a serious time in recruiting, Wilcox moved to Washington. Sirmon took the same fl ight. We don’t know if Dooley could have stopped them with raises. Could be Wilcox concluded the SEC is just too tough.
Dooley made positive ad-justments – offensive coor-dinator Jim Chaney to QB coach, Darin Hinshaw, bless him, to receivers. Ex-Vol Jay
Graham came to coach run-ning backs. There was ap-plause.
Dooley went “Alabama” to replace Wilcox. Sal Sun-seri brought in former as-sociate Derrick Ansley and probably recommended John Palermo. Charlie Coiner was an easy choice. Available.
Lance Thompson? Oh, after two passovers for pro-motion, he went back to Ala-bama.
Dooley, the faithful few and reinforcements did OK in recruiting. As new assis-tants were getting acquaint-ed, Terry Joseph, with Dool-ey at Louisiana Tech, moved laterally to Nebraska. Hmm.
What do the migrants know that we don’t? Was the original Dooley formula just trial and error? Is the staff better for changes? This new season could be very exciting. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected].
Principals honored at Great Schools Partnership eventPrincipals Cindy White (Karns Middle), Jack Nealy (West Valley Middle), Jill Hobby (Whittle
Springs Middle), Cheryl Hickman (Carter High) and Sallee Reynolds (Hardin Valley Acad-
emy) were honored March 15 by the Great Schools Partnership at an event at The Square
Room on Market Square. The principals were recognized for their schools’ academic gains
in TVAS scores (middle schools) and ACT scores (high schools). Photo by Jake Mabe
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I was talking to a couple of my Farragut High School classmates a few days ago – Lafayette Wil-liams and Earl Hall – and during our conversation we discussed the area where they grew up, just a few miles southwest of Con-cord Village.
Today, that gently rolling pas-toral area is the home of the new YMCA and subdivisions with homes in the million dollar-plus price range – Montgomery Cove, Mallard Bay, Jefferson Park, Cabot Ridge and numer-ous others – and commercial development has also started to take hold. But 60 years ago the whole area was known to lo-cals as “Possum Valley” and the westernmost end of Northshore Drive was called “Possum Valley Road.”
I wonder how many of the ar-ea’s new residents are aware that they live in Possum Valley.
No one is quite sure how the area acquired its name, but the most plausible explanation seems to be attributed to Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Union forc-es that wintered there in 1863. In some of the soldiers’ diaries they noted that, “If it had not been for the possums, we would have starved to death.”
One of the notorious residents of the area was Charley Smith, also known as Lying Charley Smith and Possum Valley Char-ley Smith. Charley was one of those characters who delighted in amusing his friends with his tall tales. And people were al-ways glad to see him coming
because they knew they were in for a big laugh. Charley also told stories about himself and the Possum Valley area. I remember him saying once that “if a rabbit ran across the road in front of you, you had better slam on the brakes because there would be a man right behind it.”
Now, Burnside’s soldiers and Charley’s tales suggest that the area was a very poor place where possums were the main food source and men literally tried to run down rabbits for food. But neither of these depictions is ac-curate. In fact, the area was self-contained in that it had its own churches with adjacent cemeter-ies, a school where several class-es were taught in the same room by a single teacher and a country store that was a favorite gather-ing place.
Most of the area’s residents made their living by farming. And like their Scots-Irish ances-tors, they were extremely inde-pendent people who grew their own vegetables, raised their cat-tle and poultry to provide meat for their families, and depended on the sale of their cash crops for income.
And families were very sup-portive of each other. Indeed, it was a place where farmers would readily lend their farm machin-ery and labor to a neighbor who might be temporarily in need. And it was a place where people put in 12-hour workdays six days each week and emphasized the value of such traits as honesty, hard work and virtue in their
Possum Valleytraces roots to Civil War
parenting. And their early train-ing must have had an influence on them because most of the “possum valley boys” excelled in both sports and academics in high school.
Most Possum Valley residents lived in traditional, two-story, clapboard farmhouses at the end of dirt roads. In fact, all of the roads in Possum Valley were dirt, and alternating periods of drought or rain each presented their own problems. During dry periods, you could see vehicles coming far in the distance by the dust cloud, so not many people were inclined to wash their cars or pickup trucks.
Today, the influx of new resi-dents and modern subdivisions has completely changed the area landscape. Single mailboxes and dirt roads leading to farmhouses have been replaced with beauti-ful subdivision entrances that lead to paved streets with excit-ing street names.
And if you ask one of these newcomers where they live, they will proudly say Mallard Bay, Montgomery Cove or Jefferson Park. But if you can find one of the locals –their numbers are de-clining rapidly – and ask where they live, they are apt to say, “Oh, down in Possum Valley.”Gen. Ambrose Burnside
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Community Services
■ Concord United Methodist
Church’s Caregiver Sup-
port Group, affi liated with
Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc.,
meets 10 to 11:30 a.m. each
fi rst Tuesday in Room 226
at the church, 11020 Roane
Drive. Anyone in the com-
munity who gives care to an
elderly individual is invited.
Refreshments. Info: 675-2835.
Fundraisers and sales
■ Knoxville Catholic High
School will host the 14th an-
nual Kids Helping Kids Fun
Walk Sunday, April 1, in the
school’s stadium. Activities
will include a one-mile fun
walk, inflatables, games, a
children’s art show, refresh-
ments and more. Regisration
begins at 2 p.m. The walk
begins at 3 p.m. All proceeds
will benefit Columbus Home
Children’s Services.
Music services ■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane
Drive, will host the Maryville
College Concert Choir’s per-
formance of “Pipes, Glens
and Thistles: A Celebration
Regina Fox, mom Mary Fox and Geri Sutter sample various pasta dishes. Photos by T. Edwards ofTEPHOTOS.com
Linda McDermott, Joyce Shoudy, Robin Wilhoit of WBIR and 2011 winner Mike O’Hearn (back)
judge the 2012 pasta cook-off at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
By Theresa EdwardsSacred Heart Cathe-
dral’s annual pasta cook-off again benefited Fam-ily Promise, a nonprofit organization which helps homeless and low-income families achieve sustain-able independence. Fam-ily Promise has a day place where people can use a computer, telephone, laun-dry facilities and storage and have an address to ap-
ply for various assistance programs such as food stamps.
Overnight stays are available at a circuit of churches. A shuttle pro-vides children transpor-tation to and from school and adults to work or back to the day house.
Denessee McBayne is a graduate of the Family Promise program and will soon become a board mem-
ber. She shared her story of unfortunate circumstanc-es transforming her from a corporate person with a 401(k) to losing every-thing, becoming “residen-tially challenged.”
McBayne was a youth minister in South Carolina and always took people in. Then the tables were turned when she became displaced. It was a chal-lenge. “It took losing ev-
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ETTAC to demo speech deviceThe East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116
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Anyone who has lost the ability to speak due to a stroke, brain tumor, etc. may benefit from this workshop.
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of Gratitude” 7 p.m. Sunday,
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Rec programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753
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Gabriella Miller and mom Denessee McBayne benefi ted from
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erything to gain so much more, so I could share it with other people,” she said. “It’s been a great ex-
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I was only in 40 days, but they’ll stay with you longer as needed (up to two years). It’s a great program.”
McBayne stayed at one of the host churches, Foun-tain City Presbyterian Church, which then hired her. She has been working there a year now and has her own family place. “It’s so small I have to go out-side to change my mind,” she joked.
Faith Promise has 16 host sites and 26 support organizations. The agency can work with four families or 14 family members at a time. It needs a new day center to enable a second rotation serving more families. Info: www.FamilyPromiseKnoxville.org/.
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‘Glass Menagerie’ comes to Bearden
Laura, played by Rachel Brown, is comforted by Jim, played by Caleb Leach, in Bearden High
School’s production of “The Glass Menagerie.”
Ryan Rotella plays Tom and Laura Dupper plays Laura in Bearden High School’s production of
“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. The play, which is a study in disfunction, is the only
Williams work appropriate for high school students, says advanced acting teacher Glen Ellington.
The play is double-cast, and performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, and Friday, March
30, and at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31. Tickets are $8. Photos by Wendy Smith
Eagle Scout Cameron Driskill has earned the highest rank in
Boy Scouting. For his Eagle Scout service project, he designed
and constructed a shade structure, pergola and benches for the
playground at Messiah Lutheran Church. Cameron is a member
of troop 20 and a senior at West High School. He is pictured here
with his parents, Jonathan and Anne. Photo submitted
Driskill earns rank of Eagle Scout
SCHOOL NOTES ■ An open house will be held at Greenway School 2-4 p.m. Sunday,
April 1. Grades 6-8 are now enrolling for fall.
■ A student art show will be held for Rocky Hill Elementary School
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Jim (Caleb Leach) talks to Tom (Michael Avery) on the fi re
escape during a rehearsal. Bearden High School’s advanced
acting class will stage “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in April.
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Rocky Hill Elementary School interim
principal Crystal Marcum photographed
boxes that were shipped from the school
to children in Afghanistan, thanks to
pocket change collected by students dur-
ing “Pennies for a Purpose.” “We called it
‘Kids Helping Kids Around the World,’ ” said
Marcum. The boxes were fi lled with books,
crayons and small trinkets for the village
children. The remaining funds went to
Rocky Hill Elementary School families with
deployed service members to give them a
weekend of fun with dinner and a movie. Photo submitted
‘Kids Helping Kids’
‘Endless Possibilities’at Bearden Elementary
Ethan Booker’s drawing of an architectural fi rm hangs in
the hallway of “Endless Possibilities.” Photo by S. Barrett
Jaquez Dean
wants to be a
scientist when
he grows up. Photo submitted
Balyncia
Childress
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a photogra-
pher some-
day. Photo
submitted
Skylar McKellar, Bearden Elementary School student and future cupcake shop owner shows
marketing prowess with the motto “A Piece of Heaven, Right Here on Earth.” Photo by S. Barrett
Bearden Elementary School 4th and 5th grade students lined the school hallway recently with their photos and artwork as part of the school project “End-
less Possibilities.” The assignment gave the
students an opportunity to express their inner adult and consider what they want to be when they grow
up. Students worked on the
project in Guidance, Art and Music class and per-formed a musical as a fi-nale to the project.
Tyler Larrabee
is in the 4th
grade, and his
goal is to be a
professional
soccer player. Photo submitted
Coach Fields Brown (top, left) Eli Holbert, Baylor Sanders, Nickolas Golden, Andrew Favaro,
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Carrasco celebrate their results in the RYSA tournament held in Conyers, Ga. The team ad-
vanced through the tournament to the final game, losing to Chattanooga United 3-2 in
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By Anne HartJohn O’Donnell is one
cool guy – the very type you would expect to create the coolest of cool lines in men’s fashions. He’s a walking advertisement for his product.
And sure enough, since its launch just eight years ago, the Johnnie-O ap-parel line for men, women and children has achieved meteoric popularity na-tionwide. M.S. McClellan & Co. in Bearden carries it exclusively in this area.
O’Donnell, who lives in Los Angeles, and his senior vice president of sales, Quinn Veysey, based in Greenwich, Conn., have been in Knoxville for Mc-Clellan’s trunk show of the Johnnie-O spring and summer styles, including polo shirts for both men and women, belts, beach towels, jackets, visors, hats, f leece vests, and men’s and boys’ ties, all in bright colors.
O’Donnell defines his apparel as “East Coast preppy meets West Coast cool.” It’s a perfect de-scription, and it all start-ed when O’Donnell – just for fun – cobbled together some polo-style shirts for his golfing buddies. In-stead of an alligator or some other familiar logo on the front of the shirts, O’Donnell applied a surfer guy and a surfboard in a contrasting color to that of the shirt.
The shirts were a hit, and other people start-ing wanting them. Before long, O’Donnell had his
own line of clothing. The shirts are now seen on stars in movies and on TV and on sports figures all over the world.
Not surprising, because Johnnie-O polos aren’t like others in the market today. The front placket is longer – four buttons instead of three – like the style had when it origi-nally debuted decades ago. The collar is pointed again, and the fabric is
different, too. None of that stiff, scratchy pique here. The shirts are made of high quality 100 percent cotton jersey.
Johnnie-O’s designs are both classic and ca-sual, but not so casual that they’re sloppy. They’re comfortable, great-look-ing and just plain cool. Like their designer.
Info: M.S. McClellan, 5614 Kingston Pike, 584-3492.
Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
@home audio-videoTom Leavy with @home audio-video shows a Sharp high-
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speaker system. “We sell only the highest quality products on
the market. All are tried and true, high-quality brands,” he said.
They are located in Colony Place at 5084 Kingston Pike. Info:
www.athomeaudiovideo.com.
Rural/Metro fi refi ghters Brandon Gross and Tim Hancock speak with Abby Herrell and father Rick
Herrell at the Knox County Schools Career Fair. Rural/Metro team members discussed career op-
portunities in both fi re and emergency medical services with the nearly 3,000 8th graders and high
school students attending the event at the Knoxville Expo Center. Photos submitted
By Rob WebbWhile the overall job mar-
ket may be tough right now, job p r o s p e c t s are good for those pursu-ing careers in emergen-cy services. According to the U.S. Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, em-ployment is expected to grow in all emergency sectors.
Aging baby boomers will contribute to an increased demand for fi rst respond-ers, EMTs and paramed-ics. Emergency room over-crowding and hospital specialization can also cre-ate longer patient transport times making additional emergency service provid-ers necessary.
Rural/Metro is one of the largest employers of emer-
gency service professionals in East Tennessee, employ-ing more than 800 EMTs, paramedics, fi refi ghters, telecommunicators and sup-port personnel. We have a compassionate and commit-ted team which continues to grow to meet the needs of our community.
When you are committed to your work, it is exciting to help others get involved. That’s why several Rural/Metro professionals recently spent a day speaking to stu-dents about the emergency services fi eld during the Knox County Schools Career Fair held at the Knoxville Expo Center. We were one of nearly 80 local employers on site to give high school stu-dents information on career options.
Many students were genu-inely interested in learning about emergency service. Others enjoyed checking
out our latest technology, in-cluding our state-of-the-art ambulance, fi re truck and the Segways used to help us respond in densely popu-lated venues such as sporting events and festivals.
We are also reaching out to future emergency service providers through a new pilot program for fi refi ghter train-ing with seniors at South-Doyle High School.
The Fire Cadet Academy is a two-part training pro-gram in conjunction with our state-accredited Fire Academy to offer interested students the fi rst phase of fi refi ghter instruction dur-ing the school year. Upon successful completion of the course and graduation from school, qualifying cadets will be able to com-plete their training and ac-tual live-fi re experience as reserve fi refi ghters. When the 240-hour training pro-
News from Rural/Metro
Careers in emergency services
Webb
gram is complete, students are qualifi ed to test for cer-tifi cation as a Level 1 Fire-fi ghter, the minimum level required by most fi re de-partments.
Rural/Metro is proud to partner with Knox Coun-ty Schools on a variety of safety programs and ser-vices. But it is especially rewarding to help students
interested in emergency services pursue a career in this growing fi eld and join the dedicated professionals who serve and protect our community.
Saying ‘thanks’The Knoxville Tenant Council held a breakfast to honor its community partners who donate
their time and resources to the 11 KCDC properties represented by the council. The president
and vice president of the Love Towers Resident Association, Mickey Norris and Gail Kersey, pre-
sented a certifi cate of appreciation to Elaine Streno and Gail Root of Second Harvest Food Bank
for the weekly truckload of food it provides to the elderly and disabled at the Love Towers.
Pictured are Mickey Norris, Elaine Streno, Gail Kersey and Gail Root. Photo submitted
UT men bow out of tourneyTrae Golden drives toward the basket. He scored 14 points as UT lost to MTSU 71-64 last Monday in
the NIT tournament. Photo by Doug Johnson
John O’Donnell
and Quinn Veysey
with the Johnnie-O
display at M.S. Mc-
Clellan & Co. Photo by A.Hart
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NEWS FROM WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE
By Scott Hutchinson,By Scott Hutchinson,Webb School PresidentWebb School President
For well over 50 years now, Webb School of Knoxville has provided
area students, ages 5-18, with an academically rigorous, broad-
based liberal arts, college preparatory experience. Among the strengths of the school over time has been the vast array of interesting and relevant curricular offerings. In the 480-student high school alone
there are courses that range from Shakespeare to Chaos and Fractals, from Forensic Science to Mandarin Chinese. Additionally, Webb’s Upper School offers 25 Advanced Placement classes and more than 30 arts-related courses. Students who come up through the Lower and Middle schools are likewise exposed to a strong core curriculum of English, mathematics, science, social studies, and a second language, as well as a varied and vibrant pool of electives.
In 2012-2013, Webb will expand its offerings on two fronts – engineering and computer programming. On the engineering front, Webb will offer an after-school, LEGO-based engineering club for grades three through fi ve; a required seven-week course in engineering in the sixth grade; a semester-long engineering elective in both the seventh and eighth grades; and three elective engineering courses in the high school. The three Upper School courses include an introductory semester course, a full-year course with an interscholastic robotics competition piece included, and an advanced semester course. On the computer science front, Webb’s high school will offer three courses as well – an introductory programming course, a full-year AP computer science course, and an advanced computer-programming course for iPad development.
The goal of a successful K-12 education is largely threefold.
■ First, it is to engender a love of learning and to awaken in young people the notion that lifelong learn-ing is critical to one’s more complete development and to a more fulfi lling and productive adult life.
Hutchinson
Webb’s Team #1466 was among the 50-plus teams, representing schools from as far
away as Ontario, Canada to across the Southeast, to compete at the 2012 FIRST (“For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”) Smoky Mountain Regional
robotics competition, March 1-3, in Knoxville. Team #1466 is gearing up for its next
competition – the Queen City Regional in Cincinnati, OH, April 5-7.
Preparing Students forTomorrow’s World
At this year’s FIRST Smoky Mountain Regional robotics competition in Knoxville, one of the city’s own, Sam Bacon – a Webb School Class of 2008 graduate and former robotics team member; now a senior at University of Tennessee and a mentor for Webb’s robotics team #1466 – was named the Regional Woodie Flowers Award (WFA) winner.
This prestigious FIRST Robotics Competition award recognizes robotics team mentors who lead, teach, inspire, and empower students to reach their goals. FIRST names one adult team mentor a Regional WFA recipient at each of the some 70 regional competitions, worldwide.
Students on each robotics team pick candidates for the award. They must then submit an essay describing the qualities of their nominee and why he or she deserves the honor. More than 50 teams representing schools from as far away as Ontario, Canada, Indiana and Ohio to squads from across the Southeast, including Webb School, competed at this year’s Smoky Mountain Regional. Of those mentors nominated for the Knoxville competition, Bacon was declared the Regional WFA winner.
In her nominating essay to FIRST, Webb senior Ishi Keenum described Bacon’s commitment to
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Webb alumnus and former robotics team member Sam Bacon has mentored Webb’s robotics
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the Smoky Mountain Regional. (above) Sam Bacon (third from right) and Webb Team #1466
members consult with a FIRST offi cial at the 2010 National Championship in Atlanta, Ga.
■ Second, it is to equip young people with a wide array of litera-cies so that they can function as knowledgeable and enlightened citizens within their communities.
■ And third, it is to equip young people with the salient thinking skills,
knowledge base, and work habits to provide them with the requisite foun-dation to help secure quality jobs in an increasingly competitive world. By adding these new course offerings to our curriculum, Webb School continues to better address all three objectives.
advancing FIRST Robotics and to developing leaders within Webb’s team. “Sam cares more about building a competent, problem-solving team than winning,” writes Keenum. “He cares only that the team is united and knows that if not all members understand the robot, we will have failed.”
As team coach/mentor, Bacon constantly takes it upon himself to encourage learning, according to Keenum. “Sam personally taught me LabVIEW,
and it was only later that I learned that he had never worked in that program before, and was studying tutorials each night to keep ahead of me,” she noted.
Keenum also wrote about Bacon’s greater vision for FIRST in Knoxville, describing how he recruited his UT classmates to regularly help students at the area’s Girls and Boys clubs to further their STEM education. Bacon worked closely with the clubs to develop effective ways to teach STEM, including the purchase of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics kits to help tackle problem solving. He’s also been a member of the Smoky Mountain Regional planning committee for the past two years, and has offered his expertise to other robotics teams, especially local rookie squads.
Sam Bacon “motivates us,” concludes Keenum. “He inspires our team by showing us what we can achieve after
high school. Sam dedicates himself to making us better-informed and effective as a team, and because of him, we are successful.”
As a 2012 Regional WFA winner, Sam Bacon is automatically eligible to win the national 2012 Championship Woodie Flowers Award. Currently, he’s helping Team #1466 prepare for its next competition – the Queen City Regional in Cincinnati, OH, April 5-7.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB March 26, 2012
NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
For more information, please call the Fort Sanders
Sleep Disorders Center at (865) 541-1375.
Fort Sanders Professional Building1901 Clinch Avenue, S.W., Suite 303Knoxville, TN 37916
Get Your Life BackChronic sleep deprivation or poor quality sleep can leave you feeling exhausted, irritable and unable to focus. It can also lead to serious health problems.
The professionals at the nationally accredited Fort Sanders Regional Sleep Disorders Center can help you get a refreshing night’s sleep – and get your life back.
Stop snoring NOW with the Fort Sanders Sleep Center!There’s never been a better time
to get a good night’s rest, accord-ing to Scott Vogt, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.
With the latest in sleep disorder treatments, your sleep problems – especially loud snoring – can be cured, says Vogt. “Snoring is not normal,” he explains. “Snoring happens because there’s some-thing obstructing your airway at night.”
Loud snoring is often caused by a common condition called ob-structive sleep apnea. This is when a person’s airway relaxes during sleep and narrows. As the per-son tries to breathe, the air must squeeze through the narrow open-ing, causing the snoring rattle. If the airway closes completely, the patient will stop breathing for a second and gasp for air. This can happen hundreds of times each night, preventing the person from getting into a deep state of sleep.
In the morning, the sleep apnea sufferer is likely to have headaches, mental distraction and fatigue. He or she is also at a higher risk for hypertension, heart attack, stroke and even diabetes, Vogt says.
“In the deeper stages of sleep, the brain releases chemicals to heal the body,” explains Vogt. “So when you’re constantly hav-ing sleep apnea events, the body doesn’t heal itself.”
Fortunately, the treatment for sleep apnea is a simple one, and recent advances have made it easi-er than ever.
The main treatment for sleep apnea is to sleep with a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine, a bedside pump that de-livers forced air through a mask and down the nose and mouth to keep the airway open and elimi-nate snoring.
“The CPAP has been around a long time, but the machines have gotten a lot better in the last few years,” says Vogt. “They’re small-er, and they look like bedside clock radios. We have patients who have hiked the Appalachian Trail with their CPAPs. They just take a little battery pack with them.”
CPAP masks have also im-proved over the years.
“They’ve made the masks small-er and lighter, with new materials,” says Vogt. “They come in all kinds of colors and styles, too. There are pink or camoufl age colored head-bands and lighter tubing to reduce the pull of the tube on your face.
“It’s easier than ever to fi nd one that’s comfortable for you, and that makes you want to use it more. If a patient won’t use the CPAP, it’s not doing them any good,” states Vogt. “It’s like having a bottle of pills and not taking them.”
Some patients need to try sev-eral masks before they fi nd the one that works for them, Vogt says.
“It might take a few days to get the right one. We’ll get those pa-tients who say, ‘There’s no way I can wear this.’ And then once they feel the benefi ts, it’s almost instan-taneous,” he smiles.
Eliminating the snoring is likely
to benefi t other family members as well, Vogt says.
“Our best referrals are spous-
es,” Vogt says with a laugh. “Most of the time, the CPAP will treat two patients at once. Whoever’s having
the apnea is keeping the spouse awake.”
The Sleep Disorders Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medi-cine. Its tests and treatments arecovered by most insurance plans.
For more information about the Sleep Disorders Center,
call 865-541-1375 or go to www.fsregional.com/fssleepcenter.
“Snoring is not normal. It happens because something is obstructing your airway at night.” – Scott Vogt, Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center Director
Many smaller, lighter CPAP machines are now available for people suff ering from sleep apnea.
Fatigued? Sleep better with the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center
Tired all the time? If you’re still sleepy after eight hours of rest, there might be an underlying med-ical cause to your fatigue.
Typical signs of a sleep disorder include diffi culty falling asleep at night, waking many times dur-ing the night, pauses in breathing while asleep and exhaustion dur-ing the day.
The best way to pinpoint and solve a sleep problem is to be eval-uated by a nationally accredited facility such as the Sleep Disorders Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. The six-bed sleep laboratory is a longtime member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The Center is staffed by two physicians and seven licensed sleep technologists. They can de-termine the root of your sleep problems.
“There are many sleep disor-ders,” explains neurologist Dr. Thomas Higgins, a Sleep Medicine physician and director of the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center. “Medical conditions, neurologi-cal problems, poor sleep habits, stress, anxiety and depression
– these can all bring about sleep problems.”
The Center’s staff performs an initial evaluation on each patient and determines whether an over-night or daytime sleep test is need-ed. If so, the patient is connected to monitors that measure brain
wave activity, heart rate, oxygen levels and breath-ing while they sleep.
“By digitally recording a patient’s brain, heart and air fl ow during sleep, we can often identify what’s causing the sleep diffi culties and work to-gether toward a solution,” says Dr. Higgins.
And finding a solution to your sleep problems is important for your over-all health, points out Dr. Higgins. Longterm sleep deficits can increase your risk of heart dis-ease, high blood pres-sure, obesity, diabetes and other medical con-ditions. “Successfully treating a sleep problem
can change your life,” states Dr. Higgins.
For more information about diagnosis and treatment
of your sleep problem, call the Fort Sanders
Sleep Disorders Center at 865-541-1375.
You’re getting sleepy …
If you’re struggling to get enough sleep, try
combating the problem with these techniques:
■ Keep a regular sleep/wake schedule.
■ Avoid consuming caff eine at least four to six hours
before bedtime and minimize daytime use.
■ Don’t smoke, especially near bedtime or if you awake
during the night.
■ Avoid alcohol and heavy meals before bedtime.
■ Get regular exercise, but avoid exercising right before
bedtime.
■ Minimize noise, light and excessive temperatures
where you sleep.
■ Go to bed at the same time each night.
■ Try to wake up without an alarm clock.
■ Don’t stress about it. Worrying about not being able
to sleep only exacerbates the problem.
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B-2 • MARCH 26, 2012 • SHOPPER-NEWS
Sara Barrett
Critter Tales
Theresa Edwards
The smallest member of the team(Is not the least
important)
The Red Hat Society en-joys having fun.
The Society is a national women’s organization with local chapters, including the Strang Senior Center group.
Dee Searcy, Sonja Berger, Kendra Self, “Queen” Peggy Maxwell, Janet Murray and Elsie Baxendale celebrate spring at the
Red Hat Society luncheon at the Strang Senior Center.
“We believe silliness is the comedy relief of life, and since we are all in it
together, we might as well join red-gloved hands and go for the gusto together,” explains national leader Sue Ellen Cooper, “Queen Mother.” Red Hats will cel-ebrate their 14th birthday April 25.
The Strang group is led by “Queen” Peggy Max-well. “The Red Hat Society started here eight years ago,” said Maxwell. “I came mainly because my mother wanted to come to it. By the third meeting, I was put on the board. Now I’m Queen and am not sure how I ended up in that po-
Janet Murray brings a hop-
ping bunny to the Red Hat
Society “spring fling.” The
bunny sings, “Everybody’s
doing it, hop, hop, hop.” Pho-tos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
sition. I fuss and grumble when people don’t show up. But I’ll tell you what … I love it.”
“We often go out to eat,” said Elsie Baxendale. “We like to get together and have a good time.” She ex-plained they all wear red hats and purple outfits, except for when they cel-ebrate a birthday and wear purple hats with red out-fits.
The Red Hat Society meets at 1:30 p.m. every third Tuesday at the Strang Senior Center or various restaurants.
HEALTH NOTES ■ Kid Support, an eight-week
peer support group for kids
ages 6-12 with loved ones
living with cancer will be
held 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tues-
day evenings from March
27 through May 15 at the
Cancer Support Community,
2230 Sutherland Ave. Dinner
will be served from 5:30 to
6 p.m., and the program
will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
There will be stories, art,
games and more to help kids
express their feelings and
share experiences. Info and
registration: Call Kathleen
Williams or Debra Sullivan
at 546-4661 or visit www.
cancersupportet.org.
■ Cancer survivor support
groups, Monday evenings,
Tuesday mornings and Tuesday
evenings, at the Cancer Sup-
port Community of East Ten-
nessee (formerly the Wellness
Community), 2230 Sutherland
Ave. Support groups for
cancer caregivers, Monday
evenings. Cancer family be-
reavement group, Thursday
evenings. Info: 546-4661 or
www.cancersupportet.org.
■ Covenant Health’s Body-
works off ers community
exercise for all ages at $3 per
class. Classes include Easy
Cardio Max, Mind and Body,
and Senior Cardio. Visit www.
covenanthealth.com/body-
works or call 541-4500 to fi nd
a location near you.
■ Lung cancer support group
meets 6 p.m. the third Monday
of every month at Baptist West
Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside
Drive. No charge, light refresh-
ments served. Info: Trish or
Amanda, 218-7081.
Meet Lucky, 2, a tabby
and white male cat. He
is gentle and loving, but
he is missing something.
He is missing a home.
Help improve his luck
by adopting him today.
Lucky is available at the
center at 3210 Division
St. Hours there and at the
main center at Young-
Williams Animal Village,
6400 Kingston Pike, are
noon to 6 p.m. daily. Visit
www.young-williams.
org to see photos of all of
the center’s adoptables
or call 215-6599 for more
information. Photo submitted
Get ‘Lucky’
at Young-Williams
Darla Dunn is partici-pating in the Covenant Health Knoxville Mara-thon Biggest Winner Weight Loss Challenge with a group of others who lean on one another for in-spiration and support.
In addition to her hu-man teammates, Dunn has another special train-ing partner who gives her endless support and an unconditional shoulder to lean on.
Well, he doesn’t really
have shoulders. He has four paws.
Dunn has been training for the marathon with her German shepherd/Dober-man mix, Zombie. She ad-opted him a couple of years ago from a local rescue group and would encour-
age anyone looking for a pet to do the same.
“Training the last few months with Zombie has so deeply strengthened our bond and makes exercise so much fun,” said Dunn. “I cannot stress the excel-lence of it to others enough.
“I’m not always so com-fortable in public, so he gives me something to focus on besides my own head,” said Dunn about her training sessions. Zombie helps her stay motivated while being active himself and improving his own so-cial skills.
Dunn says her form suf-
fers occasionally from try-ing not to step on Zombie, but otherwise he helps keep her pumped up during a practice run.
The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon week-end is Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1. Events will include a one-mile kids run on Saturday and a marathon, half-marathon, four-person marathon re-lay and 5k races on Sunday morning. Online registra-tion ends Tuesday, March 27, but onsite registration will also be available. Info: www.knoxvillemarathon.com.
Darla Dunn stands with Zombie and the rest of her team for the
Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon Biggest Winner Weight Loss
Challenge. Pictured are Melody Peters, Amanda Paletz, Dunn,
Arielle Arthur, Lee Ann Bowman, Mike Howell, and Edee Vaughan. Photo submitted
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Doyle 254-9552
Wanted To Rent 82
������������ Ret. Private Detective & author needs 1-2BR
house on secluded, private property with rent reduced in ex-change for security
and/or light caretaker duties. 865-323-0937
Manf’d Homes - Sale 852000 CLAYTON 48x28,
3BR 2BA, exc cond, many updates, $42,000. 865-560-5610
General 109#1 BEAUTY CO. AVON
Reps Needed! Only $10 to start! Call Marie at 865-705-3949.
Healthcare 110
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Cats 140HIMI, Lynx Pt Male
Kitten, CFA, ch bloodlines, $400. 423-295-2233, 865-306-3536
Dogs 141DACHSHUNDS, Mini,
M&F, black & tan, starting $200. Call 865-428-9228.
***Web ID# 952398***
DOBERMANS 1 yr. AKC. Black M & F. Trained. $500-$1000/bo cash. 931-858-4242
German Shepherd pups, WHITE, 4 male, LARGE parents on site, AKC, shots, $400. 423-775-9697
***Web ID# 954109***
GOLDEN DOODLE PUPS, CKC, $650.
www.berachahfarms .com. 615-765-7976
***Web ID# 952979***
Golden Retriever pups, AKC, OFA/champ
lines, www.berachah farms.com
$500. 615-765-7976. ***Web ID# 952971***
HAVANESE AKC REG CH. BL., choc. male, 1 yr. old, $500 (paid $2,500). 865-363-3424
LAB PUPS, AKC, CHOC., born 2/23/12, 9 pups, 7 M, 2 F. 1st shot, $300. 423-836-3439 ***Web ID# 953451***
MALTI-TZU PUPPIES, born New Years Day, reg., 1st shots, de-wormed, looking for a happy home. $350 Fem. 865-951-2702
***Web ID# 952661***
MASTIFF "English" Puppies, AKC reg., wormed, 1st shots, vet chkd, fawn $800. 423-912-1594
***Web ID# 953525***
MINI SCHNAUZERS 2 M, 2 F, AKC reg., vet checked, 1st shots, $400. 865-414-5666, 865-453-1107
***Web ID# 954870*** SHIH TZU PUPPIES, CKC, shots/wormed beautiful colors, 6
wks. $400. 423-404-4189 [email protected]
SIBERIAN Husky AKC Pups, champ lines, shots, $450-$500. 865-995-1386
***Web ID# 953137***
WIRE FOX Terriers, adults, AKC regis-tered, $100 each. 865-621-1733
Free Pets 145
ADOPT!
Looking for a lost pet or a new one?
Visit Young-Williams Animal
Center, the official shelter for the City of Knoxville & Knox County: 3201 Di-
vision St. Knoxville. knoxpets.org
Farmer’s Market 1508 Young Angus cows
pregnant, will calve in 4 mos., examined by vet, $2,195 each or best offer. Can deliver. Greenback 865-335-9836
GOOD GRASS HAY, 4x5 rolls in dry, $25 each. 865-986-3160 or 548-0822.
Music Instruments 198BABY Grand Piano
w/bench Knabe. Ivory keys. $600. 865-281-9848; 924-1905
Household Appliances 204a
GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty 865-851-9053 1716 E. Magnolia Ave.
Sporting Goods 223EZEE GO 2002, 36
Volt Elec. Golf Cart w/charger. Runs good. $1250 obo. 865-898-9766
GOLF TAYLOR & Ping Irons & woods. Ping G10 $200. Phone 865-670-3980.
Garage Sales 225KIDS CONSIGNMENT
SALE Sat. March 31, 8-2, Beaver Ridge UMC in Karns. Clothing newborn to teen, toys, furniture, equip, books & more. Cash only please.
West 225wEd Spring Fling Rummage Sale
March 31, 9am-1pm Benefits Big Brothers
Big Sisters Edfinancial Services
@ Windsor Square 120 N. Seven Oaks Dr. Rummage sale/crafts/ direct sales items welcome
$25 to rent a space. Call 865-342-5128 for info or to rent space
Boats Motors 232Chaparral Deck Boat,
24 ft, 1995, great shape, ready for summer. $9500. 865-696-0082; 865-414-1056
FOUR WINNS Vesta 1989 w/trlr. Exc. shape. New Mercruiser eng. w/1 yr. warr. $9500. 865-696-0082; 865-414-1056
Campers 2351999 26' Citation
travel trailer, super slide, sleeps 6, $5,000. 865-435-7845
AVION WESTPORT, 2000, 5th wheel, 38', 3 slides, exc. cond., $12,900. 865-256-5268
Motor Homes 237FLEETWOOD EX-
PEDITION 2005, 38 ft, diesel pusher, 39k mi, 2 slides, loaded, always in covered storage, excellently maintained. $92,500. 865-986-5854
***Web ID# 952520***
NEWMAR Mountain Aire 2001, 37'
Ford V10, 49k mi., slide, W/D, cherry cabinets, loaded.
Extra nice in & out. Kept in cvr'd. storage. $40,000. 865-458-0740.
Motorcycles 238BMW F650ST 1997,
39K miles, lady owned, $2500. Call 865-604-8785.
KAWASAKI 1500 Vul-can Classic, 2003, 6800 mi., loaded, $6,000. 865-947-8688
Motorcycles 238SUZUKI C90
VL1500 BLVD 2005 VG cond. only 5K mi.,
Blck. w/Corbin Beetlebags, $4000 obo.
Call 865-607-3320.
ATV’s 238aHONDA 2011, 420CC,
green, only 1 hr. use, warr., never off rd., $3950. 865-579-5923.
Autos Wanted 253I BUY junk cars and
trucks. 865.456.5249 or 865.938.6915
We Are Paying Top Dollar For Your Junk Vehicles. Fast, Free Pickup. Also Looking For Nice Repairable Late Model Vehicles. Call C.J. Recycling
865-556-8956 or 363-0318
Utility Trailers 255UTILITY TRAILERS,
all sizes available. 865-986-5626.
smokeymountaintrailers.com
Vans 256FORD CLUB Wagon
1995 w/Braun wheel-chair lift, $4300. 865-947-5478
FORD ECONOLINE E-150 2002, dark blue van, Triton V8 engine, trailer tow pkg., 91,832 mi., $6,500. 865-458-4158
4 Wheel Drive 258JEEP Wrangler X 2006,
exc cond, 58K mi, straight 6, 6 spd, $13,500. Owner 588-8493
Antiques Classics 2601970 GTO Org Motor,
400ci 350 hp, Auto, PS, PB, AC. Origi-nal Paperwork from dealership. Vinyl Top, Good Int, Mi-nor Rust $8500 423-743-7000 Glenn
CHEVROLET CORVETTE 1967 Roadster Stingray 427/435 blue/black, #S matching, great condition. $28,500.
Contact 731-599-4393 or [email protected]
Antiques Classics 260PONTIAC GTO 1970, Orig. motor, 400ci 350 HP, auto, PS, PB, AC.
Orig. paperwork, vinyl top, good int., minor rust. $8500.
423-743-7000, Glenn.
Imports 262AUDI A4, 2006, 115K
mi., runs but needs work, $5,900 OBO. 865-207-2428
Honda Prelude 1998 Red with black inte-rior. 149k miles. Automatic, sunroof, exc. cond. 865-254-8861
MERCEDES S500 1999, 126K mi., loaded, lthr.
Sharp & Clean! A STEAL! $6900. 680-3668
VW JETTA, 2009, Wolfsburg pkg., 39,600
mi., red. Asking $15,000. 865-437-8634
Domestic 265FORD Thunderbird
2002, conv./HT, 50K mi, good cond, $16,476. 865-269-4602
GEO METRO 1992 Convertible, AT, $1,650. 423-295-2233 or 865-599-6361
Cleanin g 318CLEANING NETWORK
Wkly/ Bi-wkly/ Mo. Good refs! Free est. 258-9199 or 257-7435.
SPRING CLEANING! Cleaning, windows & carpet clng. Homes & offices! Lic'd ins'd & bonded. Est & refs. 363-8207 or 809-8543
Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE instal-
lation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 32 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328
Furniture Refinish. 331DENNY'S FURNITURE
REPAIR. Refinish, re-glue, etc. 45 yrs exp! 922-6529 or 466-4221
DENNY'S FURNITURE REPAIR. Refinish, re-glue, etc. 45 yrs exp! 922-6529 or 466-4221
Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER
SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.
Lawn Care 339
ABC LAWN & SEALCOATING
Comm/Res. Mow-ing, mulch, hedge-
trimming, tree/ stump removal, gutters cleaned.
377-3819
Paving 345
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Pressure Washing 350
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Roofing / Siding 352
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NEWS FROM PROVISION HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Spring into
NUTRITION CLASSES:
For information on these and other classes, please call (865) 232-1414.
1400 Dowell Springs Blvd., Suite 100, Knoxville, TN 37909(865) 232.1414 · livewellknoxville.com
The weather is changing
and you can too!
We all get stuck in our daily routines, but take
your daily habits and routines helping you to be a better person?
Busy schedules, work and family obligations
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Once you get out of the habit, it can be that much
Now is the time!Recent research shows
that exercising outdoors (when compared to exer-cising indoors) is associ-ated with greater feelings of revitalization, increased energy and positive engagement coupled with decreased feelings of ten-sion, anger and depression (Journal of Environmental Sci-
Exercising outside also provides you with a unique opportunity to enjoy Knoxville in a dif-
One such opportunity is the Provision Health and Wellness Dogwood Classic 5k Run/Walk on
event takes place along Cherokee Boulevard, a beautiful area of West
may seem intimidating, break it down into small steps, literally! Walking or jogging can be a great way to spend quality time with
Regardless of your
completing a 5k is never
the right training program
Don’t forget the behind the
as lower blood pressure, better blood sugar control,
If you need some guid-ance in developing your training program, we are
Our Provision Health and Wellness trainers are well educated and experienced and will help you get one step closer to completing your 5k!
New programs for AprilProvision
Health & Wellness (formerly The Wellness
Center at Dowell Springs) is stepping up its game for
“We are your community resource for information on a healthy lifestyle,” said Executive Director Lisa
Just call for pricing infor-
soon!”LiveWELL Lifestyle
Change Program is a be-ginner-friendly, unique and comprehensive program that combines nutrition,
-ment to achieve remark-
program meets three times each week for one and a half
will start at noon Monday,
Monday, Wednesday
Yoga Series
stress relief and muscle
Flow
poses targeting connective tissues) with Flow (rhyth-
build strength as well as
Duathlon/Triathlon Trainingto be an elite athlete to
is here for both the veteran -
-gram includes coaching on spin bikes and treadmills, education on nutrition for training and performance, weekly training plans for biking, running, as well as suggested swimming work-
receive pre- and post-body
“To be or not to be” Gluten Free – Learn the pros and cons of this ubiqui-
other foods processed from wheat to which
Book Study – “Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?” a book by organizational consultant Peter Walsh, is an easy plan for losing weight while living a less clut-
to clean up the spaces where you cook, eat and live? Chief Dietitian Casey Peer will lead this series starting Tuesday,
at noon Tuesdays for six
Food Is Medicine Series – Program-ming includes classes on nutritional management of diabetes, hypothy-roidism, food allergies, cardiovascular disease,
etc…Healthy Eating Se-
riesProvision’s Registered Dietitians will discuss healthy eating with a prac-
become educated on the different aspects of healthy eating, positive changes
In “Don’t be DENSE,” partici-
pants discuss ways to trim calories per bite to trim
foods are high in calories and could be sabotaging your diet,” says Casey
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“What Is Really Making
Weight Management”
Casey Peer, Chief Dietitian
Spring!Mike
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Gammon/Heatherly Series strives to care for caregivers
Speakers from The Davidson Centre for the Professions will be featured during the 2012 Gammon/Heatherly Series, an annual series of lectures targeted at chaplains, pastors, physicians, nurses, social workers and other caregivers.
Set for 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Parkwest Medical Center, this year’s lectures are geared toward providing those caregivers the resources needed to prevent burnout.
Participants are invited to attend three of four seminars (two in the morning session, one in the afternoon) focusing on “Mind,” “Body,” “Spirit” and “Praxis (or active process).”
Titled “Sustaining Resilient Leaders: Tools to Build Personal and Professional Resilience,” the sessions will feature Dr. George W. Jacobs, president of the Da-vidson Centre for the Professions, and Davidson staffers Dr. Cynthia Ackrill, Leesa Sluder and Rabbi Barbara Thiede.
Jacobs, who co-founded the The Da-vidson Centre for the Professions in Da-vidson, N.C., in 2003 as a program for wellness, revitalization and reminder of purpose for clergy and church pro-fessionals, will launch the Gammon/Heatherly Series at a Physician Break-fast with his talk on “Caregivers as Unique Professionals.” He will later be joined by Ackrill, Sluder and Thiede at the 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. plenary session, “Resilience of Mind, Body, Spirit and Praxis,” in the Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center auditorium.
The first breakout group session is 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. and the second ses-sion 1-2 p.m. Lunch will be provided 11:50 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. at the Fort Sand-ers Regional Medical Center cafeteria.
In the seminar dealing with the “Mind,” Jacobs looks at information overload or how, in an age where we have access to more information than anytime in human history, we may have
has become so pervasive caregivers of-ten discount its impact and rationalize denial. Ackrill also looks at how we can manage our energy level and make sig-nificant improvements in our health,focus and happiness.
Thiede, who serves as rabbi for Tem-ple Or Olam and as a Mashpiah (a spiri-tual director in the Jewish tradition),is the featured speaker for the “Spirit”seminar. She will look at nurturing an “awareness and exploration of the sa-cred” in life as well as finding meaningand connection in everyday life.
Sluder, who combines a 25-year fi-nance career with a psychology back-ground and executive coaching expe-rience, will examine “Praxis,” a Greek term for the process by which a theory, lesson or skill is practiced or enacted. In this seminar, Sluder will look at how coaching supports transition, how toovercome obstacles, and develop a vi-sion and set goals for a healthy profes-sional and personal life.
The seminar series, established in1983, is named after the late Rev. Jo-seph Gammon, a former chaplain atFort Sanders Regional Medical Center,and this year marks the first joint effortwith the inaugural event at Parkwest Medical Center in honor of former CAO Wayne Heatherly.
Registration fee is $20 (make checks payable to Fort Sanders Regional Medi-cal Center, Pastoral Care), include $10 for Continuing Education Unit credit or $50 for theological and medical professionals. Approval is pending for Continuing Medical Education credit, which will require a $25 fee.
For more information about the lecture series, call the Fort Sand-ers Regional Medical Center Pasto-ral Care offi ce at 865-541-1235. For more about Davidson Centre for the Professions, visit davcp.com.
Bikers revving up for ‘We Care Ride’
Bikers are invited to get their motor running 9 a.m. Saturday, April 21, as the 2012 “We Care Ride” makes its annual 90-mile trek to benefi t the Fort Sanders Foundation and Parkwest Medical Center Chaplain Fund.
The ride will begin with late registration 8:30-9 a.m. in the physician park-ing lot at Parkwest Medical Center, 9352 Park West Blvd., Knoxville. Bikers will ride to Fort Loudoun Medical Center and Methodist Medi-cal Center in Oak Ridge before returning to Parkwest.
The $25 per rider (and $10 per passenger) registration fee includes snacks during the ride and a light lunch at the end of the ride. The fee helps support the We Care Campaign, a fund-raising effort that enhances patient care and support programs at facilities within Covenant Health. It also benefi ts the Parkwest Chaplain Fund which provides services for patients, visi-tors and employees in need.
For more information about the “We Care Ride,” call Chaplain David Bluford at 865-373-1630.
Are you an artist looking for the perfect venue to sell your work and support a worthwhile cause? Ap-ply to be a part of the 11th annual Artsclamation! fine art sale to benefit the behavioral health services of Peninsula, a divi-sion of Parkwest Medical Cen-ter.
About 30 artists, including paint-ers, photographers, jewelers, fiber artists and sculptors, par-ticipate in each year’s show. A percentage of each art-ist’s sales is donated to Peninsula.
The Artscla-mation! leadership com-mittee will review submis-sions and selected artists will be notified in May. The Artsclamation! fine art sale will be Nov. 2-3.
Artists interested in participat-ing in Artsclamation! should contact
the least ability to focus and listen. He also looks at relearning the languages of life, death and being human.
Ackrill, a primary care physician for 15 years, addresses issues of the “Body” in her seminar which looks at how stress
Artists sought for Artsclamation!
Gina Williams, event director, at [email protected], or call 865-531-5210. The deadline for submitting samples of work is Friday, April 27.
