City to celebrate Holbrook bridge

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and city offi cials will be in Fountain City at 4 p.m. today (June 22) to dedicate the replacement of the Holbrook Drive bridge. The ceremony will be at First Baptist Church, 2801 Holbrook Drive.

The bridge is adjacent to First Baptist and Fountain City United Methodist churches and also feeds traffi c to Gresh-am Middle School. Improve-ments include sidewalks, bike lanes and a higher clearance over Fountain Road.

Approximately $1.5 million of the total $1.9 million bridge replacement project was fund-ed through a federal grant, with $300,000 assistance from a Tennessee Department of Transportation Bridge Aid grant, and the remainder be-ing covered through the city’s capital improvements fund. CDM Smith designed the re-placement bridge, and Charles Blalock and Sons Inc. served as the project contractor.

It is one of 97 bridges that the city maintains with bi-annual inspections conducted by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The city budgets $650,000 each year for bridge maintenance.

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BUZZ

By Betty Bean While contenders are lining up to succeed

him as Knox County mayor, Tim Burchett is lacing up his traveling shoes.

On Memorial Day, Burchett, whose fi nal term will end in September 2018, had a speak-ing engagement in Sevier County. That’s hard-ly unusual – in recent months, he’s pressed the fl esh at Lincoln Day and Reagan Day banquets, Republican Clubs, veterans’ and various civic organizations in Blount County, Roane County, Campbell County, Scott County, Union Coun-ty, Loudon County, Oak Ridge and Clinton. Requests from Middle and West Tennessee are pending while Burchett works them into a schedule packed full of local appearances.

He’ll turn 52 in August and has served in political offi ce since 1994, when he was elected to the state House, where he served four years before moving on to the state Senate in 1998. He was elected Knox County mayor in 2010, re-elected in 2014 and turned down requests from Tea Party representatives to run against Sen. Lamar Alexander. Speculation about his next move has become a popular pastime in local po-litical circles, and nobody expects him to retire.

He says he’s uncertain about his future.“What am I going to do? I don’t know. I pray

about it all the time – and even then, just because God tells me to do it doesn’t mean I’m going to win,” he said. “People ask me about it every day, and I mean that literally. At Wright’s (Cafeteria), in the courthouse, in the grocery store, in the parking lot at church, whenev-er I’m around a reporter – I tell them I’ll let them know when I

decide.”So why all the speeches?“Well, I’m really not much of a public speak-

er, but people are interested in my views on limited government, reducing debt and my general view of government. It’s tough to get speakers, and I probably get asked a lot be-cause I do it for free.”

Clay Crownover, a political strategist who labels himself a Biden Democrat and repre-sents both Republicans and Democrats as clients, says he believes Burchett has a bright political future if he runs for the right offi ces.

“If he wanted to challenge Jimmy Duncan to run for Congress, he would probably be suc-cessful at that, but I don’t see him as a viable candidate for U.S. Senate. His style is suited to being able to talk to every single voter. He can talk to anybody and they feel he understands them. That’s something you can’t teach candi-dates – even me, as a liberal Democrat, I love him. In a statewide race, he can’t do that be-cause he cannot speak to everybody.”

Republican political strategist Tom Ingram labels himself a Burchett fan. He says he ad-mires his political acumen, skills, work ethic and ability to channel what people are thinking.

“I think he has the potential to do whatever it is he wants to do. He’s as qualifi ed, or more so, than many who are looking at the gover-nor’s race.

Burchett laughed off one last try for an ex-planation of his peripatetic speaking schedule:

“I happen to like chicken dinners,” he said, “But I feel like I’m cheating on the Colonel. I’m boycotting KFC anyway because they shorted me a piece of chicken and that’s unacceptable. They didn’t respond to my email, so I’ve trans-ferred my allegiance to Bojangles.”

Tim Burchett

What’s next for Tim Burchett?

Alvin Frye at Fountain City Exxon hosted the second annual “Ten off the

Top” to benefi t Central High School. Frye is pictured with Gresham Mid-

dle School student Joseph Norman, who lends a hand by washing win-

dows at the station. Administrators and coaching staff from CHS were

on hand all day to assist customers and give back to the community. Photos by Ruth White

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and the Kroger Company announce a request for qualifi cations from interested artists for a large-scale indoor artwork to be located at the soon-to-be completed Kroger store on Emory Road near the I-75 inter-change.

The artwork, measuring 12.5 x 5 feet, will be prominently displayed within the store. It should use local references to

evoke a creative, uplifting feel-ing that encourages community and celebrates the spirit of the neighborhood.

The deadline for qualifi cations to be received is Friday, July 1, 2016.

The call for entries is open to all artists 18 years and older re-siding in the greater Knoxville area.

Finalists will be chosen based on their examples of work, expe-

rience and their connection to the Powell/Knox County com-munity and asked to submit a proposal meeting installation requirements. Of the fi nalists submitting proposals, one will be selected to create the art-work for the new Powell Kroger opening September 2016. The deadline for selected fi nalists to submit their proposals is Aug. 1. Payment to the selected artist is $7,500 including all materi-

als. Info at: knoxalliance.com/kroger/.

There is no application fee. To be considered, artists should submit up to three examples of their work (including title, me-dium and dimensions), a brief resume, two professional ref-erences, and an explanation of their connection to the commu-nity to LZ@knoxalliance.com

Info: Liza Zenni, 865-523-7543

Kroger seeks large art for new store

Exxon gives backTo CHS Bobcats

Kathryn Lutton pumps gas for a customer at the Fountain City Exxon station last week

to benefi t Central High School. Lutton is a former assistant principal at the school and

will begin her new position as principal at Holston Middle School on July 1.

SEEK for jobsA summer program to help

youngsters who probably will go straight from high school to a job in underway.

Photojournalist Ruth White is shadowing teacher Bridget Calfee to explore the training. The first installment of her story appears today.

➤ Read Ruth White on page 8

‘Opal’s Million Dollar Duck’

The comedy “Opal’s Million Dollar Duck” is coming to the Powell Playhouse this week-end.

It will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 23-25, with a 2 p.m. Matinee on Saturday at the Jubilee Banquet Facility on Callahan Road. Tickets are $10 with a $5 senior discount for the matinee and can be pur-chased at the door – or online at powellplayhouse.com

Dinner is $15 and lunch ($10) before the matinee. Meal reservations: 865-938-2112.

A-2 • JUNE 22, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Keith Anderson holds fi ve

fi ngers to show the number

of ways he’s descended from

Nicholas Gibbs.

Rebecca and Joe Longmire

Bonnie Peters

The Nicholas Gibbs Soci-ety held its annual meeting and fundraiser June 11 at the Nicholas Gibbs Historic Site on East Emory Road.

Rebecca Longmire, wife of the society president Joe Longmire, provided a great presentation about the Bat-tle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812 where Nicho-las Gibbs Jr. was killed. A cenotaph was placed at the homestead and at the Horseshoe Bend Memorial Park for him.

Descendants of the vari-ous lines were present. The attendee coming the great-est distance was from Alas-ka, and the nearest attendee lived just across the road. A descendant of Nicholas Gibbs’ brother, Abraham, was in attendance at age 101. In all, 78 persons at-tended. The slate of offi cers re-elected are: Joe Long-mire, president; Ann Smith, vice president; and Sonja Collins, secretary-treasur-er.

There are about three acres of this site and a won-derful shady place to stroll.

Gibbs descendants do it right

Since last year a pavilion has been constructed, and it is a wonderful place for the Gibbs gathering. The pot luck lunch worked out perfectly with a really nice variety and plenty of it. The society is now fundraising to add restrooms, a mini-kitchen and storage area to the pavilion. There are Nicholas Gibbs mugs, key rings, Christmas ornaments and vintage canning jars for sale to benefi t this project. A CD of the “Nicholas Gibbs and His Descendants” book, published by the Nicholas Gibbs Society, is for sale.

Tours of the home as well as the Perry-Gibbs Cem-etery where Nicholas Gibbs is buried were available for everyone interested. Some years ago the property own-ers at the time added an at-tached kitchen and another

room to the home, but these have been torn off in the restoration to the house’s original state.

The house is wonder-fully maintained and fur-nished with period pieces, although only a few pieces are original to the house.

The grandfather of Nich-olas Gibbs is said to have left England because of re-ligious and political reasons and to save his head when King Charles I lost his in 1649. He went to Amster-dam, married and never returned to England. The family relocated along the Rhine River in Germany, and there Nicholas, father of Nicholas who came to America, was born Sept. 29, 1733, in the village of Wallruth, near the town of Krumbach, Duchy of Baden.

Nicholas Gibbs born in

Germany had two broth-ers – Peter and Abraham – and two sisters –Mary and Catherine. Nicholas came to America in 1747 at age14. Abraham had already relo-cated to America and set-tled in Fredericktown, Md.

Nicholas served fi ve years in the French & Indian War. During that time, Abraham heard about him and sought to see him. Nicholas did not recall ever having seen Abra-ham, but his mother told him how to recognize Abraham by a scar or spot on Abra-ham’s head.

Sure enough, he was able to recognize Abraham by his mother’s description, accepted him as his brother and moved near Abraham in Fredericktown. Legend has it that Nicholas didn’t care much for Abraham’s wife, left Maryland and settled in

Orange County, N. C., where he married Mary Ephland. Some of their children were grown and married before Nicholas and Mary’s move to Tennessee.

Nicholas sold his North Carolina property on Oct. 12, 1791, and the Gibbs fam-ily moved to East Tennes-see. According to Tennessee records, Nicholas bought 450 acres in Hawkins Coun-ty on March 6, 1792, for 200 pounds “including Beaver Dam Fork on Beaver Creek.” This section of Hawkins County became Knox Coun-ty on June 11, 1792, when Gov. William Blount issued an ordinance re-defi ning the lines of Greene and Hawkins counties and es-tablishing Knox and Jeffer-son counties.

Nicholas died in 1817. Mary Ephland Gibbs was

Neighbors

gather for

guitar-

picking

while

others

visit under

the new

shelter on

the Nicho-

las Gibbs

property.

born in 1739 and died in 1834. Both are buried in the historic Perry-Gibbs Cemetery. When this cem-etery was established, it is believed to have been inside Reynolds Fort.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • A-3 community

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Fountain City Lions Club

meets 6 p.m. each fi rst

and third Monday, Lions

Community Building, 5345

N. Broadway.

■ Halls Community Lions Club meets 7:15 p.m. each

second and fourth Monday,

Shoney’s, 343 Emory Road.

■ Halls Republican Club

meets 7 p.m. each third

Monday at the Boys &

Girls Club of Halls/Powell,

1819 Dry Gap Pike. Info:

knoxgop.org.

■ Seventh District Democrats meet 6:30

p.m. each fourth Monday,

Halls Branch Library, 4518

E. Emory Road. Info: Mary

Ann Page, map@parodee.

net or 247-8155; Dan

Haney, bdl66@comcast.net

or 922-4547.

SPORTS NOTES ■ Golf tournament to

benefi t the Base Knox

Reign 12U girls softball

team, Saturday, July 16,

Whittle Springs Golf

Course. Team entry fee:

$200. Format: 4-man

scramble. Check-in, 7:30

a.m.; shotgun start, 8

a.m.; lunch and awards,

noon. Info/registration/

sponsorship: Adam

Brantley, 680-9343.

Flower Lovers Garden

Club members president

Opal Hurst, vice presi-

dent Billie Hurst, Billie

Hall and Aida Billingsley

Sun Up Garden Club members Connie Barker, Joan Helton and

Joyce Caldwell

By Cindy TaylorThe Knox County Coun-

cil of Garden Clubs went to Chilhowee Park for the an-nual Picnic and Planting in the Park and a celebration of National Garden Week.

Representatives from 12 Knox area clubs were on hand to plant perennials around the bandstand. The group had collected iris rhi-zomes to donate to the park. Those will be planted by the park grounds crew.

Greg Mackay, the manag-er of Chilhowee Park, spoke to the garden club members.

“I am surprised at the number of people here,” said Mackay. “We appreci-ate the iris plants this group has donated. Our bin is al-ready full. In the future it is our hope to have hundreds, maybe even thousands of irises here in the park.”

Connie Barker, county council president, said, “We had a great turn out for our annual meeting. I don’t think (Greg) Mackay was expecting such a successful round up of iris plants.

First Baptist Academy 8th grader Eric Armstrong, 13, read his poem “Jumping Frogs” during the meeting. Eric won second place in

Picnic and planting in the park

the Junior Gardeners po-etry contest. The poem was short and sweet:

Frogs jumping in the water

Ribbit, ribbittOver lily pads, logs and

fallen treesGliding over the waterSplashing in the thin lay-

er of water near the banksOwen Peterson won fi rst

place but was unable to at-

tend.Racheff House and Gar-

dens is often the location for local garden club meetings. Summer Splash, the annual game party and luncheon, will be held at Racheff Aug. 19.

District 4 Garden Clubs will host the Tennessee Fed-eration of Garden Clubs an-nual show in Knoxville in 2017.

Hikers stroll

down a

lush, shad-

ed path

in Seven

Islands

State Park

The French

Broad River

runs adja-

cent to the

park. Photos by Cindy Taylor

By Cindy TaylorThe scene before you is

a vast expanse with a mix of wildfl ower meadows and native grasses surrounded by woodland hills. On a spring day the sky is so blue it can make your eyes hurt. The Great Smoky Moun-tains and the Chilhowee mountain range loom in the background.

Turn a corner and the French Broad River fl ows into view. Red-winged blackbirds and goldfi nches fl y overhead, diving oc-casionally for food. Mean-while, the trilling song of a meadowlark or bobwhite quail lulls you to a state of bliss possible only in East Tennessee. This is a day at Seven Islands State Birding Park.

Just a short drive east of Knoxville off I40, the park is one of the newest state parks. Prior to 2014, the area was managed by Lega-

cy Parks Foundation as Sev-en Islands Wildlife Refuge.

More than eight miles of scenic, mowed paths and a paved greenway wind through the park’s 425 acres. Each trail lends itself to a varied type of habitat ranging from native grass-lands and riparian zones to woodlands. There is also river access for boats at two locations. Britt Farrar is a ranger at the park.

“Seven Islands was an easy addition for the state that didn’t require the over-head that would normally take place,” said Farrar. “The original restrictions were kept in place for land use development when the conservation easement was transferred.”

The park is a bird watch-ers paradise. Farrar says more than 190 species have been spotted to date.

“The number is con-stantly changing, almost

daily, depending on the time of year and during migration,” he said. “An ad-ditional 10 have been added to the list just since I began working here two years ago.”

Some of the rarer spe-cies seen in the park are the barn owl, lark sparrow, clay-colored sparrow, bobolink, golden-winged warbler, per-egrine falcon, saw-whet owl and sand hill crane.

Farrar says the workload is heavy with a lot to get done and only a few to do it. But he loves his job.

“It is a blessing to get to work in such a unique place,” he said. “The peace-ful setting, the quiet and seclusion and the abundant wildlife remind me daily of why I love working here.”

One visit will not be near-ly enough. Seven Islands State Birding Park entrance is at 2809 Kelly Lane. Info: 407-8335.

Scenic views at Seven Islands

A-4 • JUNE 22, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Wendy Smith

Marvin West

Some of my favorite bas-ketball memories got a few drips on them from the death of Jimmy England.

He was one of Tennes-see’s all-time greats and the main man in one of the best games I ever saw. Pull up a chair. Allow me to tell you about it.

Ray Mears’ Volunteers were the token opposition for the South Carolina sea-son opener of 1969. Colum-bia was decked out in color-ful fl ags and crepe-paper streamers. All seats had been sold far in advance. The Gamecocks were the No. 1 team in America. The betting line was 24 points.

New York godfather Frank McGuire had assem-bled great talent. A trio of big men patrolled the paint. Great guard John Roche was the reigning Atlantic

Memories of England

Coast Conference player of the year. This was a mis-match. No one gave the Vols a chance.

Mears loved the setting. He had prepared. During the long pre-season, his team had refined a match-up zone. It was designed to dictate tempo and keep the crowd quiet. The home team wasn’t quite ready for what happened.

Here is an indelible snap-shot: South Carolina called an early timeout to discuss the Tennessee defense that was confusing Gamecock

guards. Players stood off to the side as McGuire and two assistants discussed the di-lemma. They couldn’t agree whether they were seeing man-to-man with zone ten-dencies or a partial zone that turned man at certain places or under certain

circumstances. They won-dered what were the keys.

The timeout ended with-out the coaches reaching a conclusion. They shared no wisdom with the players. The staff was still talking, trying to fi gure it out, when the buzzer sounded and the teams returned to the fl oor.

The game was tense throughout. Of course pres-sure peaked in the fi nal minute. England hit two free throws when they really mattered. South Carolina got one last shot. Roche missed an off-balance jumper. Ten-nessee won, 55-54.

England had led the way to this shocking upset, scor-ing 20, handling the ball ef-fi ciently and hitting six foul shots down the stretch.

Through the years, Mears often said such a clutch per-formance was exactly what he expected of England. The coach said he had never given any player as much responsibility as he loaded

onto Jimmy’s shoulders that season.

“I called on him to run the team at the point. He was our best shooter, so we had to get his 20 points. And when we ran up against a man like Pete Maravich, we handed him the defensive assignment of handling the other team’s best man.”

England, 6-1 and 170, was drafted by the Chicago Bulls. He was plenty smart enough for the NBA but he wasn’t big enough, strong enough or fast enough. He was a UT student assistant coach for a season, a school teacher for a little while and then went into business, up through the ranks, spectac-ular advances through three companies, to president and chief operating offi cer of Suzanne Somers’ marketing conglomerate.

The bright lights of Los Angeles were all around but he was so busy, he hardly noticed.

Life was going great untilJuly 2007.

“Multiple myeloma,” saidEngland. “Compressionfractures of the spine. Mylife changed forever.”

Of course he fought. Hewas a warrior. There weretimes he appeared to havewon. Alas, it or some othercancer came back.

So many memories be-fore and after the Game-cocks: He almost won a statechampionship for HolstonHigh. There was a UT sea-son when he led the SEC infree-throw accuracy and as-sists. He once outscored bigDan Issel of Kentucky.

Jimmy was a remarkableplayer, smooth, confi dentunder duress, an athleticartist but never fl amboyant.Strange that a panel of ex-pert selectors somehow lefthim off the Tennessee all-century team. They mustnot have seen him play.Marvin West invites reader reaction. Hisaddress is westwest6@netzero.com

Dodson HallDanielCorcoran

Which GOP House candidate is ‘just right’?A forum for Republican

candidates for Tennessee’s 18th-district House seat came across a little like the story of Goldilocks − con-servative, more conserva-tive, most conservative and an outsider.

The candidates − incum-bent Martin Daniel, his pre-decessor Steve Hall, former Stacey Campfi eld aide Bryan Dodson and attorney James Corcoran − spoke at last week’s West Knox Republican Club meeting. The 18th dis-trict is roughly constrained by Pleasant Ridge Road, North-shore Drive, Gleason Drive and Lovell Road.

Daniel would be diffi cult to knock from the top of the conservative heap. He’s unapologetic about being business-friendly, and says

he’ll resist any unnecessary business regulation. He touted successful passage of a bill that enables the Legis-lature to review occupation-al licensing regulations, and claimed that he was the fi rst to notice excessive spending by UT’s diversity offi ce.

He voted for elimination of the Hall Tax, and says he’ll oppose any attempt to reinstate it.

Hall, who served on City Council for eight years be-fore serving two terms in

the House, said he’s a con-servative and he’s never voted for a tax increase. His claim to fame is helping constituents navigate gov-ernment bureaucracy.

Daniel, who spoke after Hall, said he’d simply elimi-nate bureaucracy.

Dodson introduced him-self as a constitutional con-servative, an evangelical Christian and a recovering alcoholic. The state needs more faith-based leaders, he said.

He’s in favor of a true voucher system that would al-low parents to send their kids to private school or home-school without paying twice, and he’d like to see corporate taxes reduced to keep busi-nesses from moving overseas.

Corcoran, a juvenile

court attorney, says the is-sue of neonatal abstinence syndrome is at the heart of his campaign. The inci-dence of babies being born addicted to opiates is 45 times higher today than in 1999, and it’s a pro-life issue that needs to be addressed constitutionally, he said.

He’d like to see legisla-tion that would allow family members to fi le a petition to require drug-addicted

moms to be treated. His work has given him a unique perspective, he said.

Daniel was asked to ex-plain his opposition to the Hall Tax, given that those who pay it have substantial investment income. The tax has a disproportional im-pact on seniors, he said.

When asked to comment on Insure Tennessee, Corco-ran said he was in favor of it because of the number of

Tennesseans who don’t havehealth insurance. Hall saidhe’s opposed to an expansionof Medicaid, but knows “weneed to do something.” Dod-son said he’s against it, butthat a viable conservative op-tion should be sought. Danielsaid Insure Tennessee is “allbut dead,” but he’s in favor offi nding a conservative way toprovide insurance for thosewho can’t afford it.

Daniel was asked why thestate found it necessary toget involved with the opera-tion of UT.

The university was giventhe opportunity to respondto concerns, but when itdidn’t, the Legislature hadto step in, he said.

“I love UT as much asanyone in here. I want tosave it from its mistakes.”

Jimmy England

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • A-5 government

VictorAshe

Betty Bean

Corcoran

We haven’t heard the last of the Old Coon Hunter.

The University of Ten-nessee History Department is working on the Cas Walk-er Stories Project, headed by department head Ernest Freeberg and third-year doctoral research assistant Joshua Hodge.

The idea for the project, which will eventually pro-duce archival material, a book and a digital humani-ties (online) component, came about in an unortho-dox fashion, and has every-thing to do with Freeberg’s North Knoxville address.

He lives on Gaston Av-enue, in the longtime home of Cas Walker, who lived there for decades and died in a hospital bed set up in what is now Freeberg’s liv-ing room.

Being an out-of-towner, Freeberg, whose vitae in-cludes acclaimed biogra-

Cas Walker revisited:UT historians collecting memories

Cas Walker

phies of Eugene Debs and Thomas Edison, had no idea what he was getting into when he took possession of the home of a (formerly) liv-ing legend, but soon discov-ered that the long shadow of Cas Walker had survived his death in 1998. Freeberg had no choice but to get in-terested.

Hodge, a native Alabam-ian whose dissertation topic is something that is not Cas Walker, is spending his sum-mer collecting recollections of Walker and is working from a list of Walker friends, acquaintances, allies and maybe even an enemy or two. He started in May, and hopes to fi nish the inter-

views this summer.

“ W h a t we plan to do over the next three or four months is collect as many of these inter-views as we can,” Hodge said. “Even-tually, we’ll organize it into archival materials for the East Ten-nessee Historical Society. We’ll also take these inter-views and try to splice differ-ent versions of the same sto-ries together – like Coca Cola having 20 different people singing different versions of the same song during the Su-per Bowl.”

For example, he’s heard a bunch of versions of the time Walker caused traffi c jams

on Chapman H i g h w a y by burying alive a man named Dig-ger O’Dell in his South K n o x v i l l e store’s park-ing lot.

The digi-tal humani-ties piece will become an ongoing website. The

book, which will be pub-lished by the University of Tennessee Press, will take longer. Hodge and Freeberg hope to fi nish in a year.

Hodge is willing to talk to people who didn’t know Walker, too, if they have a good story to share. Anyone with anecdotes that need telling can reach him at jhodge@vols.utk.edu or at 865-974-5421.

This article is about me. I am plagued with the force of journalistic dyslexia. Unfortunately for me this force doesn’t radiate from my body or move and bend objects at my will. It does, however, radiate from my keyboard and has moved my editors to pull out their hair.

Raised in the south, I was taught to lead up to the truth and then share it in a delicate fashion, if at all. We may meet at the fence but we do not shout across it; hence the diffi culty in cultivating a journalistic viewpoint from a southern perspective.

When I began my career with The Shopper News as a freelance reporter I was thrown right into Union County politics. Talk about a trial by fi re. The fi rst meeting I covered was a UC commission meeting pre-sided over by then-Mayor Larry Lay. Having never met a mayor in person before that night, I was beyond nervous. Mayor Lay made me feel welcome and even invited me to sit with him in the jury box during meetings.

Now I have traveled the extent of our local area, from aged homesteads to new construction. I have learned many little-known facts about my home-town and met some truly inspiring heroes. I have interviewed people I would have run away from had I met them in a dark al-ley. All wonderful people. I appreciate those who were willing to share their stories and talents and who spent time chatting about their lives.

I have interviewed celeb-rities. I have interviewed people who were consid-ered to be nobodies. I have photographed monsters lurking in shadows and beautiful people celebrat-ing their 100th birthday. I was blessed to write articles with breaking news as well

Cindy Taylor

A fond farewell

as articles that broke my heart. Above all, I attempt-ed to write with kindness and accuracy.

It wasn’t always an easy job, especially for my edi-tors. Shannon Carey hired me, written word unseen, after one meeting. I am certain she has had many regrets about that decision.

I am entering a new phase of life as Cyn Taylor, author. My fi rst book “Blue Mountain Sky” is set for release July 1. See how I buried the lead? Journalis-tic dyslexia rules.

In my early days at The Shopper, Ruth White held a training session. Her clos-ing remarks stuck with me through the years.

“Push forward. Make your way to the front. You have as much right to be there as anyone else.”

I am stepping to the back of the crowd. This article is my last for The Shopper. I will miss my peeps in Knox and Union counties and am so grateful for the oppor-tunity I had to get to know you.

To all my readers, “May we meet again over the written word. …”Contact Cindy Taylor at cyntaylor2016@

gmail.com

The hottest contested legislative contest in 42 days is for the West Knox-ville district where incum-bent state Rep. Martin Dan-iel faces three opponents including former state Rep. Steve Hall whom he defeat-ed two years ago in the GOP primary. The winner prob-ably wins with a plurality (not a majority) of the total vote which is likely to be less than 5,500. In other words, 2,000 votes may win it for someone.

The youngest candidate is James Corcoran, 36, an

a t t o r n e y who lives at 5675 Eagle Crest Drive in north-west Knox C o u n t y . He is mar-ried and the father of twins,

James IV and Elsa, 20 months old. He and his family are members of St. George Greek Orthodox Church. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in English as well as the UT College of Law.

His wife, Anya, is also an attorney who practices law with him. He was motivated to run to assist “pregnant women who have active drug issues that need assis-tance for them and their yet unborn child which they are not getting.”

Corcoran says he voted for Daniel last time due to Steve Hall’s backing of Ten-nova going on Middlebrook Pike which Hall failed to consult the neighborhood on. Corcoran is a marathon runner. Corcoran is critical

West Knox district has best race

of Hall’s legislation to sell Lakeshore Park. He says he supports the Park there and other parks as well. He also called Daniel’s comments on Muhammad Ali “unfor-tunate.”

He supports the repeal of the Hall income tax and prefers the election of judg-es and the district attorneys general be nonpartisan. He says he would vote for In-sure Tennessee as pushed by Gov. Bill Haslam. He has the backing of many teach-ers thru their association.

“I appreciate the gre-enway system we have in Knoxville. I have run three marathons and like biking as well.

His campaign has raised $6,000 but we have to raise a lot more,” he says. He sup-ported John Kasich in the recent GOP presidential primary but will support the Republican presidential nominee in November.

Besides Daniel, Hall and Corcoran there is also Bry-an Dodson, a former aide to former state Sen. Sta-cey Campfi eld. Hall, too, is close to Campfi eld and ac-tively backed him in 2014. Of the four, the contest may well end up between Daniel and Corcoran if Corcoran can raise suffi cient funds to advertise. Hall has $40,000 unspent from his failed 2014 campaign.

Recently, Hall sent out a mailer accusing Daniel

of wanting ISIS to recruit on the UT campus, despite Daniel denouncing ISIS. The Hall piece is only the start of a negative cam-paign. The attack pieces are only likely to get harsh-er and more frequent. Vot-ers may turn to Corcoran if they get to know him and if he can raise funds. Corco-ran has been more civil in his statements. This contest is interesting.

■ Last week there was an interesting front page story on the lack of African Americans serving in Congress from Tennessee and representation in other areas.

On the same day, Mayor Rogero and Police Chief Rausch announced Ken-ny Miller as the new deputy police chief to replace Nate Allen, an African American who has become police chief in Decatur, Ala.

While there is no doubt in my mind that Miller is qualifi ed and will do an excellent job, what went unmentioned was that Knoxville no longer has an African American deputy police chief or in other high level command positions in the Police Department.

I know this is not by design and Chief Rausch would prefer it be differ-ent. He is committed to hir-ing minorities. However, it remains a troubling issue and concern which Mayor Rogero must address by speaking out on it and lead-ing an effort herself to re-cruit minorities.

Just as Chief Allen was recruited to Decatur where he is now making $99,444 plus receiving his Knoxville city pension, Knoxville will

need to recruit at the high-er levels for KPD persons of color if this problem at the deputy chief level is to be solved soon. Knoxville cannot just talk the talk, it must walk the walk when it comes to African Ameri-can recruitment in our uni-formed services. When the Miller appointment was announced, it would have been a positive sign had the mayor also recognized publicly the absence of Af-rican Americans in the KPD leadership and renewed her commitment to solving that issue. Instead there was si-lence.

■ Knoxville now has a Center of Polish Culture located at 7417 Kingston Pike formally opened on June 21. The Ambassador of Poland to the U.S., Ryszard Schnepf, participated in the opening.

■ Longtime airport attorney Bruce Fost er Jr. has retired after 29 years and the airport au-thority, after a search, has hired well-liked and inde-fatigable attorney Mark Ma-mantov, 56, to replace him. Mamantov is not likely to stay 29 years as the airport attorney, but he will do well for the time he is there.

Mamantov has chaired the board of the Knoxville Symphony and is legal counsel for KCDC. He is Latvian American. He takes his civic duties seriously.

■ First Watch, a new restaurant on Bearden Hill owned and operated by Nadine Jubran, son of UT vice chair Raja Jubran, had a soft opening the weekend of June 11-12 with diners donating $10 each for Lake-shore Park in lieu of paying

for their meal. Lakeshore Park earned over $10,000 which shows the strong sup-port Lakeshore Park has in

the community. First Watch is open for breakfast and lunch only, seven days a week.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ TV pundits on WBIR were

quick to give the lead in

District 18’s Republican

Primary to incumbent

Martin Daniel.

■ Daniel may win, but he

also might run fourth.

After comments about ISIS,

Muhammad Ali and the

social studies curriculum at

Sequoyah School, he surely

does not deserve a win. His

persistent criticism of UT is

unwarranted.

■ Were this a one-on-one

race between Daniel and

Steve Hall, Hall would win.

He lost by only 160 or so

votes to Daniel in 2014, and

that was before anyone

knew Daniel.

■ Bryan Dodson’s votes will

come off Hall. And how

Hall fi nished a losing race

with a $40,000 surplus is

beyond dumb. Interesting,

indeed.

– S. Clark

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SENIOR NOTES ■ All senior centers will

be closed Monday,

July 4.

■ The Heiskell Senior

Center

1708 W. Emory Road. Info: Janice White, 548-0326

Upcoming: Mobile

Meals served every

Wednesday; $2 donation

requested; RSVP by noon

Tuesday.

■ Corryton Senior Center

9331 Davis Drive688-5882knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; cross-stitch,

card games; dominoes,

crochet, quilting, billiards;

Senior Meals program, 11

a.m. each Friday.

Register for: Main

Munch Potluck: Buddy’s

BBQ, 11:30 a.m. Thursday,

June 23. Corryton Commu-

nity Picnic at Douglas Lake,

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday,

July 13; RSVP/sign up for

dish to bring to share.

■ Halls Senior Center

4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

quilting, dominoes, dance

classes; scrapbooking,

craft classes; Tai Chi; movie

matinee 2 p.m. Tuesdays;

Senior Meals program,

noon Wednesdays.

Register for:Field trip:

Oakes Daylily Farm, 10 a.m.

Friday, June 24; music, door

prizes; refreshments and

plants available for pur-

chase. Gourmet Cooking

Show: Terry Geiser, 12:30

p.m. Thursday, June 30;

tickets: $10, RSVP and pay

by June 24.

■ Morning Pointe

Assisted Living

7700 Dannaher Drive686-5771 or morningpointe.com

William Malpede and his dad, Bill, enjoy a game of golf at

Beaver Brook Country Club thanks to Elmcroft of Halls and

Second Wind Dream. Photo submitted

Volunteering brings smiles to all Powell resident Natalie Smith recently began volunteering at

Morning Pointe of Powell. She spent her fi rst day with Pastor

Earl Wilson, pictured. “I am amazed at how just spending

time with folks brings smiles, conversation – and makes such

a diff erence in their lives,” she said. Volunteering at Morning

Pointe is a win-win situation with residents receiving

enhanced time and the volunteer receiving the reward of

making a diff erence. Smith is happy to fi nd a place where she

can make a diff erence by making people smile. Photo submittedKicking off summer, ’50s styleSeniors gathered at the Community Center on Emory Road

to celebrate the kickoff of summer with a 1950s-themed ice

cream social. The event featured music from the era, a hula

hoop contest and senior adults dressed in some great outfi ts

from the time period. Carolyn Vineyard, Ruth Bayless and Mary

Smith were just a few of the seniors who came out for an after-

noon of fun. Photo submitted

Elmcroft to host seminar on dementia

Elmcroft Assisted Liv-ing will host a free educa-tional presentation for fam-ily members, caregivers and senior adults on Normal Aging vs. Dementia, noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

Registration will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the event will feature a guest speaker from Alzheimer’s Tennessee.

Topics of the presentation will include the differences between normal memory changes and those that oc-cur in dementia, changes in function that may appear in a person with dementia and tips for decreasing one’s risk for developing dementia.

Lunch will be available for $5 for attendees who RSVP to Samantha, 925-2668, or sbeals@elmcroft.com by Thursday, June 23.

Bill Malpede and his wife, Lu, have been resi-dents at Elmcroft of Halls since October 2014. One of Bill’s lifelong favorite sports and passions is golf. He has played in numerous tourna-ments associated with his work and played with sev-eral of the golf clubs in Il-linois.

One memorable trip for Malpede was when he met up with son Billy, daughter Lynn and son-in-law Mat-thew (also an avid golfer) in Northern California where they played Pebble Beach

and Spyglass.Through Elmcroft and

Second Wind Dream, Bill was able to play a round of golf with his son, William, at Beaver Brook Country Club. William was in town recently and the golf game came together for the pair to enjoy a day on the green.

Danny Gaylor joined the duo for golf and played nine holes with them. Gay-lor stops by Elmcroft every Monday morning with a group from Clear Spring Baptist Church for devo-tions, singing and fellow-

ship. When Gaylor learned that Malpede was a golfer, he agreed to take him on an outing.

Following nine holes of golf, the men met for lunch at The Nineteenth Hole at the country club. Bill said he had a great morning, but was disappointed in how “bad” he played and that he might need to start golfi ng again to improve his game. “I used to be pretty good at this,” he said.

Second Wind Dream off ers golf experience

Mayor Tim Burchett says American fl ags that have reached the end of their useable life can be dropped

off at any Knox County se-nior center and the staff will ensure they are disposed of properly and in partner-

Senior centers to collect old fl agsship with several commu-nity organizations including American Legion Post 2, Woodmen of the World, Boy Scouts and others.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • A-7 faith

cross currentsLynn Pittslpitts48@yahoo.com

And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. He said, “Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet, not what I want but what you want.”

(Mark 14: 35-36 NRSV.)

Jesus, in his hour of dread and loneliness in the Garden, cried out to God, “Abba, Father.”

All my life, I have thought that those words were interchangeable.

Until I saw a rerun of an NCIS episode. In it, Ziva David, the beautiful Israeli who worked

in the NCIS offi ce, found her father dead. She ran to him, crying out “Abba! Abba!”

It was then I realized that Abba is Aramaic, the fa-miliar, intimate title for father, the equivalent of our Daddy.

It made Jesus’ cry in the Garden of Gethsemane a thousand times more poignant. Jesus was calling God – his Father – “Daddy.” In his darkest hour, while he sweated blood , he called out for “Daddy.”

It breaks my heart.Father’s Day is always sad for me. My brother and

I lost our daddy so young. He lost the chance to see us grow up, to know his grandchildren, to spend years and years with our mother, who loved him steadfastly as long as she lived – 38 years as a widow.

In the midst of these memories, I heard the horrifi c news of a mass shooting in Orlando. God only knows why a man would shoot all the people he could fi nd, shattering lives, families, communities, goals and dreams.

So now, there are more victims, more mourning relatives, more individuals – a whole city –that will never be the same again.

What can we do? Pray? Certainly. Forgive? I hope we will all try. Move on? Do we have a choice?

Abba, Daddy

FAITH NOTES

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-7 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 10-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Special services ■ Fairview Baptist Church,

7424 Fairview Road, will host

Dr. Tim Lee speaking during

the 9:20 and 11 a.m. services

Sunday, July 3. Info: 687-5648

or fairviewbaptist.com.

■ Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley

Road NE, will host an outdoor

gospel singing, 6 p.m. Sunday,

June 26. Singers will include:

Reba Kennedy, Tony Thomas

and David West. Bring a chair.

Will be held indoors if raining.

Everyone invited.

Classes/meetings ■ Fairview Baptist Church,

7424 Fairview Road, will

host Men’s Night Out, 5 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 5. Cost: $15.

Dinner, 5 p.m.; conference,

6:45 p.m. Speakers: Johnny

Hunt, Senior Pastor, First

Baptist Church, Woodstock,

Ga.; and James Merritt, Senior

Pastor, Crosspointe Church,

Duluth, Ga. Info/registration:

fairviewbaptist.com.

■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell each Thursday. Dinner,

6 p.m.; worship, 7; groups,

8:15. The program embraces

people who struggle with

addiction, compulsive behav-

iors, loss and life challenges.

Info: recoveryatpowell.com or

938-2741.

By Shannon CareyThe Rev. Jody Winstead

has been on the job as Milan Baptist Church’s new pas-tor for about a month now, and he’s happy to see all the good things going on at his new church home. With Va-cation Bible School just past and a mission trip coming up in July, life at Milan is busy this summer.

“Every day is a God-given opportunity,” said Win-stead. “We’re thankful for that opportunity every day to meet someone’s needs through the ministry.

“I’m beginning to see what a wonderful light Milan Baptist Church has been for over 160 years. The volunteers, the youth, outreach, Vacation Bible School, they want to spread the love of Christ. It is a wonderful church family excited about working and serving Christ Jesus.”

Winstead grew up in Washburn, graduated from Washburn High School, and holds an associate’s de-gree in Bible studies from Andersonville Theological

The Rev. Jody Winstead of Mi-

lan Baptist Church

Winstead is new Milan pastor

Seminary in Georgia. He is working on a bachelor’s de-gree from the same school

via distance learning.Winstead said he was

just 17 when he was called into the ministry. A lifelong church-goer, “I just felt in my heart that there was a calling placed on my life,” he said. “It was a very scary move. I was nervous to take on such a tremendous re-sponsibility, but God has just blessed me for many, many years.”

His fi rst post was Locust Grove Baptist Church in Grainger County. Then, he served as pastor at Commu-nity Baptist Church for 18 years before being called to Milan.

A bi-vocational pastor, Winstead owns and oper-ates a landscaping and lawn service. The fl exibility of

the job helps him be more available to the church for visitations and other needs. He and wife Aime have been married for 18 years.

Right now, Winstead is focusing on getting estab-lished as a new pastor, which he said normally takes a couple of years. His only goal for now is to see church membership and Sunday school numbers grow. He said six people made decla-rations of faith at Vacation Bible School. The upcom-ing mission trip will head to Alabama to help a church af-fected by Hurricane Katrina.

“I’m excited about what’s already taking place,” he said. “We’re just going to continue to pray and seek the will of God.”

HEALTH NOTES ■ Peninsula Lighthouse

Group of Families Anonymous meetings,

6:15-7:15 p.m. each

Tuesday, 1451

Dowell Springs Blvd.

Newcomers welcome;

no dues/fees; no sign-

up; fi rst names only. Info:

Barbara L., 696-6606 or

PeninsulaFA2@aol.com.

■ Asa’s EB awareness 5K walk/run, 9 a.m.-

noon Saturday, Aug. 13,

Victor Ashe Park, 4901

Bradshaw Road. All pro-

ceeds go to Dystrophic

Epidermolysis Bullosa

Research Association

(Debra) of America, the

only national non-

profi t organization

that funds research

and helps EB families.

Registration: debra.

convio.net/site/TR?fr_

id=1140&pg=entry.

Members of Northside Church of Christ spend time every third Sunday for a singalong at Ben Atchley State Veterans Home.

Shown are: (back) Josh Spence, holding 11-month-old daughter Elinor, Ashton Spence, Garland Pope, the Rev. Craig Lindsey,

Kathy Harless, Paul Harless, Kevin White, Ruth Lindsey, Sharon and Mickey White; (front) Henry Spence, 4, Kaitlyn Harless, veteran

Louise Owens and Doug Lindsey. Photo by Carol Z. Shane

By Carol Z. ShaneVoices rang at the Ben Atchley State

Veterans’ Home this past Father’s Day as members of Northside Church of Christ held one of their monthly sing-alongs. Residents enjoyed such hymns as “Blessed Assurance” and “Because He Lives,” along with a short talk by NCC’s the Rev. Craig Lindsey.

“They always bring so much,” said resident Wanda Caldwell. “They bring the old-fashioned singing. When you’re 80-something ....” her voice trails off. “It’s like we’re going back to when we were in church.”

Louise Owens, who was an Army nurse during World War II, agrees. She was sporting pearls, bright red nail polish, a beautiful dress and a hat. “She’s always dressed up,” said church

member Kathy Harless, and Owens replied, “Yes – on Sundays!”

The church has had a regular pres-ence at the Home every third Sunday of the month for “about fi ve or six years,” said Mickey White, who led the singing with a pitch pipe. It started when a church member moved into the facility. “She couldn’t go to church anymore,” said White, “so we thought we’d bring the church to her.”

White enjoys the effect the music has on even seemingly unresponsive residents. “You think they’re asleep, but then you see their toes tapping.”

Owens says that during her Army days stationed at hospitals in Indiana and Ohio, she was teased for her ac-cent. “They said, ‘you sound like a hill-billy.’ I said, ‘I guess I am a hillbilly.

I’m from a little town called Solway in Tennessee!’ After that, they called me ‘the Tennessee Lady.’” She was thrilled to get a card recently from one of her former patients who remembered “the Tennessee Lady.”

“I wouldn’t take anything for it,” she said.

Debbie Barnette, assistant director of activities, stood by ready to serve refreshments with a big smile as Ow-ens and the others sang and clapped along to hymn after hymn. “They love it,” she said. “They absolutely love it.”

Visit Northside Church of Christ at 7615 Bishop Rd. (off East Emory), at northknoxchurch.com, or call 865-321-1321.Send story suggestions to news@shoppernewsnow.

com.

That old-fashioned singing

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Story So Far: The S.O.R. special soccer team has yet to win a game. As the fi nal game draws closer, with the last chance to win one game, desperation sets in.

At family dinner, Ma said to me, “In two days you’ll have your last game.” It was fake cheerful, as if I had a terminal illness and she wanted to pretend it was a head cold.

“Yeah,” I said.“You’re going to win,” my father an-

nounced.“How do you know?” I snapped.“I sense it.”“Didn’t know you could tell the future.”“Don’t be so smart,” he returned. “I’m

trying to be supportive.”“I’m sick of support!” I yelled, and left

the room.Twenty minutes later, I got a call. Saltz.“Two things. My father offered me a

bribe.”

“To lose the last game?”“No, to win it. A new bike.”“Wow! What did you say?”“I told him I was too honest to win a

game.”“What was the second thing?”“At lunch tomorrow they’re going to have

that pep rally. And worse.”“What’s worse than pep?”“They’re going to call up the whole team.”I sighed. “Why?”“That way everybody will know us,” said

Saltz. “If we lose, we’ll be rounded up and left back to repeat the year.”

I was in my room doing homework when my father came in. “Come on, Ed,” he said. “I was just trying to be your friend.”

“Why can’t people let us lose in peace?”“People think you feel bad.”“We feel fi ne!”“We won’t talk about it anymore. Why

don’t you come sit with us and fi nish your dinner.”

Next day, when I walked into the school cafeteria, there was the usual madhouse. There was also a big banner across the front part of the room:

Make the Los-ers Winners

Keep Up the Good Name of

S.O.R.I wanted to

start a food fi ght.H a l f w a y

through the lunch period, the president of the School Council, a kid named Clarissa, microphone in hand, called for attention. “We just want to say to the Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team that we’re behind you.”

“It’s in front of us where we need people,” whispered Saltz. “Blocking.”

The president went on. “Would you come up and take a bow.” One by one, she called our names. Each time one of us went up, acting like cringing worms, there was general craziness, hooting, foot stomping, plus an occasional milk carton shooting through the air.

The president said, “I’d like the team captain, Ed Sitrow, to say a few words.”

What could I do? Trapped, I cleared my throat. Four times. “Uh, well . . . we . . . uh . . . sure . . . hope to get there . . . and . . . you know . . . I suppose . . . play and . . . you know!”

Everybody stood and cheered. They even began the school chant. “Give me an S! Give me an O . . .”

I went back to my seat. As I sat there, maybe two hundred and fi fty kids fi led by, thumping me on the back, shoulder, neck and head. “Good luck! Good luck!” They were beating me.

“Saltz,” I said when they were gone and I was numb, “I’m calling an emergency meet-ing of the team.”

We met behind the school. Everybody was feeling rotten.

“I’m sick and tired of people telling me we have to win,” I said.

“I think my family is going to disown me,” said Hays.

“Why can’t they just let us lose?” asked Fenwick.

“Yeah,” said Barish, “because we’re not going to win.”

“I’d just like to do my math,” said Fen-wick. “I like that.”

Something clicked. “Hays,” I said, “you’re good at music, right?”

“Yeah, well, sure — hard rock.”“Okay. And Fenwick, what’s the lowest

score you’ve pulled in math so far?”“A-plus.”“Last year?”“Same.”“Lifsom,” I went on, getting excited,

“how’s your painting coming?”“I just fi nished something cool and —”“That’s it,” I cut in, because Lifsom could

go on forever about his painting. “Every one of us is good at something. Right? Maybe more than one thing. The point is other things.”

“Sure,” said Barish.“Except,” put in Saltz, “sports.”I said, “That’s their problem. I mean, we

are good, good at lots of things. Why can’t we just plain stink in some places? That’s

got to be normal.”“Let’s hear it for normal,” cried Dorman.

“Doesn’t both-er me to lose at sports,” I said. “Least, it didn’t bother me until I let other people make me both-ered.”

“What about the school re-cord?” asked Por-ter. “You know, no team ever los-ing for a whole season. Want to be famous for that?”

I said, “Did we want to be on this team?”

“No!” they all shouted.

“I can see some of it,” I said. “You know, doing something different. But I don’t like sports. I’m not good at it. I don’t enjoy it. So I say, so what? If Saltz here writes a stinko poem, he does a lot, do they yell at him? When was the last time Mr. Tillman came around and said, ‘Saltz, I believe in your be-ing a poet!’”

“Never,” said Saltz.“Yeah,” said Radosh. “How come sports

are so important?”“You know,” said Dorman, “maybe a los-

er makes people think of things they lost. Like Mr. Tillman not getting into pro foot-ball. Us losing makes him remember that.”

“Us winning, he forgets,” cut in Eliscue.“Right,” I agreed. “He needs us to win

for him, not for us. Maybe it’s the same for others.”

“Yeah, but how are you going to convince people of that?” said Barish.

“By not caring if we lose,” I said.“Only thing,” put in Saltz. “They say

Parkville is pretty bad. What happens if, you know, by mistake, we win?”

“I think,” suggested Hays, “if we just go on out there, relax, and do our best, we’ll lose.”

There was agreement on that point.“Do you know what I heard?” said Eliscue.“What?”“I didn’t want to say it before, but since

the game’s a home game, they’re talking about letting the whole school out to cheer us on to win.”

“You’re kidding.”He shook his head. There was a long,

deep silence.“Probably hope we’d be ashamed to lose

in front of everybody,” said Saltz.I took a quick count. “Anyone ashamed

of losing?” I asked.No one. A complete vote of no confi -

dence. I was encouraged.“Well,” I said, “I don’t care if we lose.”“Right,” said Radosh. “It’s not like we’re

committing treason or something. People have a right to be losers.”

We considered that for a moment. It was then I had my most brilliant idea. “Who has money?”

“What for?”“I’m your tall captain, right? Trust me.

Bring your soccer T-shirts to me in the morning.”

I collected some money, and we split. I held Saltz back.

“What’s the money all about?” he wanted to know. “And the T-shirts.”

“Come on,” I told him. “I think we can show them we really mean it.”

(To be continued.)

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER TWELVE: A school rally for us!

“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

Brenda Sweet discusses the importance of

tracking fi nances and bank account balances

during a session of SEEK (Successful Employ-

ment Empowerment Kickoff ). Photos by R. White

Bridget Calfee works with student Nicholas

Collins on balancing a deposit account.

Although school is out for the summer, some stu-dents are back in the class-room through a program that teaches skills that will benefi t them for years to come.

The program is SEEK (Successful Employment Empowerment Kickoff) and is led by Union Coun-ty’s school-to-work transi-tion coach Bridget Calfee, assisted by Leanne Friebel.

“Some kids are just not going to college,” Calfee told the school board. She obtained a grant to fund the 6-day intensive pro-gram which is voluntary to students.

Instructors identifi ed personal skills to aid in seeking and holding a job. They sought speakers on these topics and arranged fi eld trips to businesses where their students might expect to secure that im-portant fi rst job.

RuthWhite

Friebel fi rst identifi ed four popular jobs – day-care, retail/sales, landscap-ing and inventory stockers.

She described each job, the skills needed, educa-tion required, job require-ments and wages earned.

She also asked the stu-dents questions to help them decide the type of work they would like to do.

“When applying for a job, consider whether you like to work alone or with others. Do you like to work outside?

“Are you a morning or night person? Do you prefer a fast-paced or a self-paced environment?”

Brenda Sweet of Com-mercial Bank spoke about fi nances, saving and keep-ing records of expenses. She led a practice session for writing checks and bal-ancing a ledger.

Although a majority of individuals use debit cards at stores, Sweet walked through the check-writing process as many students have no idea of the proper way to write checks. She also had them record sev-eral “deposits” on a ledger and then work through the transactions of withdraw-als and payroll deposits.

Sweet touched briefl y on the many different ser-vices offered at Commer-cial Bank and provided students with some basic banking skills that are im-portant in everyday life.

(Ruth White has shad-owed most sessions of this program and will offer ad-ditional reports.)

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • A-9 kids

Area students graduate from Maryville College

Maryville College held graduation ceremonies last month with several from the North Knoxville area participating in the celebration. Area students graduating included Emma Wolfenbarger (Central High), Cody Kidd (Gibbs High) and Brady Brown (Halls High).

Many-Bears Grinder, commissioner for the Ten-nessee Department of Vet-erans Services, was the commencement speaker and was awarded an honor-ary doctor of public service

degree during the after-noon’s ceremonies.

In her address titled “Call to Serve,” Grinder encour-aged graduates to “culti-vate a heart of humility and build a legacy of service.

“Serve your families, serve your neighborhoods, fi nd a way ‘to serve the least of these,’ and you will fi nd that no matter what battles or challenges you face in life, the reward that comes from blessing others will carry you through to the next mission,” Grinder said.

KIDS NOTES ■ Halls Community Park will hold fl ag football sign-ups, 10

a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 25, and Saturday, July 2, at the

park. Interested players ages 5-10 may also sign up at www.

Hallspark.org under Hard Knox football.

Area students make Maryville College Dean’s List

The Dean’s List for the 2016 spring semester was announced recently by ad-ministrators of Maryville College, and 52 students from Knox County were among those meeting re-quirements for the aca-demic distinction. Honored students from the Halls/Fountain City area include

Beeler and Cody Kidd from Gibbs High and Brady Brown and Kelsie Hibben from Halls High.

Qualifi cation for the Dean’s List is a grade point average of at least 3.6 in all work undertaken, with no grade below a “C.” Only full-time students are consid-ered for the Dean’s List.

Grace Christian fishers win state championship

Grace Christian Academy students Spencer Peters and Austin Kirby recently com-peted in the Tennessee High School Fishing state cham-pionship on Norris Lake and put together an impressive fi ve-bass limit weighing 13 pounds, 2 ounces to claim the championship title.

The pair stumbled onto the fi sh fi rst thing Satur-day morning. “I got hung up next to the shore at our very fi rst stop this morning,” said Spencer, a rising senior at GCA. When he turned the boat around, Austin almost immediately caught a fi sh offshore.

Once the team found the perfect location, they used a green pumpkin-colored Car-olina rig to catch all of their fi sh. “Every fi sh we caught was a keeper, and we prob-ably culled seven or eight times that day,” said Austin. “When Spencer caught a big kicker smallmouth toward the end of the day, we felt we had a pretty good chance to win.” Kirby, a recent gradu-ate of Grace, will attend Carson-Newman University in the fall.

Grace Christian students Spencer Peters and Austin Kirby win state championship fi shing title

and will compete in the regional championship in September. Photo submitted

Brady Moldrup portrays Huck Finn and Dominic Gillette portrays

Jim in the WordPlayers’ production of “Big River.” Photo submitted

By Sara BarrettThe WordPlayers will

present “Big River” July 15-17 at the Bijou Theatre.

The Tony award-win-ning Broadway musical is based on Mark Twain’s classic novel of the same name.

In the timeless tale, Huck Finn discovers that Jim, a runaway slave, is a true friend. Huck has a pure heart, but because of his culture where slavery is the norm, he has an ill-trained conscience.

In the struggle between heart and conscience, Huck’s heart prevails.

Propelled by an award-winning score from Roger

Miller, “Big River” carries a strong message which is anti-slavery and anti-rac-ism. The performance is suggested for ages 12 and up.

Performances will be held 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 15; 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 16, and 3 p.m. Sunday, July 17. Ad-mission is $21.50 ($17.50 seniors and students). Group discounts are avail-able. Tickets are available in advance and at the door.

The WordPlayers is a nonprofit company of Christian theatre artists based in Knoxville. Info: wordplay ers.org, knoxbi-jou.com or 539-2490.

‘Big River’coming to the Bijou

The pair will lead a six-team contingent of anglers at the Southeast Conference re-gional championship on Lake Cumberland in September.

Early bird sale for Fair ticketsConcert and discounted

admission tickets for the 97th annual Tennessee Val-ley Fair are on sale for a lim-ited time. Guests can save an average of 20 percent by purchasing tickets early.

Specials include: Adult admission, $8 (regularly $10); child admission, $6 (regularly $7); family fun pack, $28 (regularly $39), includes two adult admis-sions, two child admis-sions and a parking pass; fair fun pack, $32 (regular-ly $47), includes four adult

admissions and a parking pass.

Other specials include: a 3-day pass, $20 (regu-larly $30); all-you-can-ride wristbands, $14 (regularly $22), for opening day, Sept. 9, only; wristbands, $16 (regularly $20), Monday-Thursday; or $21 (regularly $25), weekend special.

Buy a reserved seat to any headline concert at Homer Hamilton Theatre before Sept. 8 and receive a fair ad-mission for $5. Info: tnval-leyfair.org or 215-1482.

VBS NOTES ■ Beaumont Avenue Baptist

Church, 1502 Beaumont

Ave, 6-8:30 p.m. June 26-29.

Ages 5 through adult. Theme:

“Submerged.” Free fun day

and registration noon-4 p.m.

Saturday, June 25. Info: 524-

5024 or 661-3425.

■ Free Spirit Missionary Baptist Church, 716 Ailor

Gap Road, Maynardville, 7-9

p.m. June 26-30. Celebration

night, Friday, July 1. Theme:

“Submerged.”

■ Heiskell UMC, 9420 Heiskell

Road, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday,

July 9. Ages 4-15. Theme:

“Submerged.”

■ Mount Hermon UMC, 235 E.

Copeland Road, 6-8:30 p.m.

July 24-27. Ages 3 through

rising sixth graders. Kick-off

and family cookout, 6 p.m.

Sunday, July 24. Theme: “Cave

Quest, Following Jesus, The

Light of the World.” Dinner

served each night. Everyone

welcome.

■ New Life UMC, 7921

Millertown Pike, 10 a.m.-

3 p.m. Saturday, June 25.

Theme: “Joseph in Egypt

Biblical Village” with tents,

games, crafts, stories,

food and more. Free

Family Fun Night 6-8 p.m.

Friday, June 24, includes

food and games and VBS

registration. Info/registration:

newlifeumcknoxville.com.

A-10 • JUNE 22, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

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Young-Williams offers low-cost spay/neuter surgeries at $70 for dogs and $45 for cats.

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or on our mobile Spay Shuttle.

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BIZ NOTES ■ Fountain City Business and Professional

Association meets 11:45 a.m. each second

Wednesday, Central Baptist Church fellowship

hall. President is John Fugate, jfugate43@gmail.

com or 688-0062.

■ Halls Business and Professional Association

meets noon each third Tuesday, Beaver Brook

Country Club. Co-presidents are Carl Tindell,

carlt@tindells.com or 922-7751; and Michelle

Wilson, michelle.wilson@kub.org or 594-7434.

■ Powell Business and Professional Associa-tion meets noon each second Tuesday, Jubilee

Banquet Facility. President is John Bayless, john.

bayless@ftr.com or 947-8224.

Kirsten Mahan, Amy Perkins and Monica Lauber welcome customers to The Village Mercantile

surplus-and-salvage grocery store. Photo by Carol Z. Shane

By Carol Z. Shane“Hey, my friend!”“Where’ve you been?”“Didn’t I see you in here

in yesterday?” The Village Mercantile,

located on Walker Boule-vard behind Buddy’s Bar-B-Q on North Broadway, is hopping. Neighbors chat while they explore the shelves. Kids work on a project in the community room. A smiling employee stocks shelves and helps customers.

Owner/operator Monica Lauber knows them all.

As former proprietor of Fountain City secondhand store Furniture Traders, Lauber says she came to realize “people were strug-gling. I thought, ‘how can I help and still keep my busi-ness?’”

The answer was in food surplus-and-salvage. “Ev-erything in here started out somewhere else,” says Lauber. From unsuccessful seasonal or limited-edition items to those with dam-aged or redesigned packag-ing, Lauber’s store holds a wealth of quality non-per-ishable foodstuffs that, for whatever reason, has been rejected by those at the top of the retail chain. And her

customers, many of whom walk to her store from the Northgate Towers apart-ments on Whittle Springs Road, literally eat it up.

“The people who come in are just so doggone happy,” she says. “They’re shocked that they can get this kind of food for the money.”

It’s the same principle held by stores such as Big Lots and Grocery Outlet, says Lauber. “There’s just so much food waste – a ri-diculous amount.” Lauber displays USDA regulations and other food safety docu-ments to reassure her cus-tomers about the quality of her merchandise.

But the Village Mercan-tile is more than just a des-tination for good food. It’s become a true community center.

“I’m tellin’ you, this is like the Whistlestop Café!” says Amy Perkins, direc-tor of volunteer services for UT Medical Center and Lauber’s partner. Perkins has helped from the begin-ning and contributed many ideas. Along the way, Kirst-en Mahan, former operator of Sassy Ann’s in the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, got on board. Mahan likes the fact that the store has become

a gathering place. “The people you might meet, the resources you fi nd, the good food – they all positively impact the community.”

James Henry, a regular who lives nearby, says, “I’ll be 56 next month. These are the best people I’ve met in 40 years.” Henry recalls that in exchange for his help at the store, Lauber pro-vided him with a motorized scooter for his teenaged son who needed it to get to work. “Made daddy cry,” says Henry. “She’ll do anything for anybody. Her heart’s bigger than this store.”

Lauber and crew are looking forward to imple-menting other ideas, includ-ing a farm stand. At the time of this writing, she had just heard from her fi rst par-ticipating farmer and was excited about his “cabbage, cukes, green beans, green onions, potatoes!”

The Village Mercantile will undoubtedly continue to grow in the community. “I loved selling antiques,” says Lauber, “but it never fed anybody.”

The Village Mercantile is located at 4503 Walker Bou-levard in Knoxville. Info: facebook.com/thevillagemercantile, 865-805-3511.

By Ruth WhiteDr. Allen Hunley will cel-

ebrate his 40th anniversary practicing dentistry next month.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Memphis dental school in June 1976 and began prac-ticing in Knoxville on July 1 that year.

Hunley spent fi ve months in his fi rst location on Pow-ers Road before moving to the Fountain City area. He has been at his current lo-cation at 2939 Essary Road since 1997.

His son, Tucker, is a 2011 graduate of Halls High and a 2015 graduate of UT. He is following in his father’s footsteps and is currently attending UT Memphis, where he is getting ready to begin his second year of dental school.

Dr. Allen Hunley and son, Tucker, at his dental offi ce in Fountain

City. Photo by Ruth White

Hunley celebrates40 years in dentistry

The Village Mercantile: more than a grocery store

Kelly Hewett

As fi restorms erupt daily in the Twittersphere with

complaints about com-p a n i e s , most orga-n i z a t i o n s are told not to “feed the trolls.” But a new study, “ B r a n d Buzz in

the Echoverse,” suggests that ignoring mean tweets usually results in a negative feedback loop among the media, which in turn affects branding and profi ts.

“Bank of America, the fi rm in the study that sub-dued these fi restorms best, used Twitter more for cus-tomer service than adver-tising,” said Kelly Hewett, co-author of the study and associate professor of mar-keting in UT-Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business.

“More consistent moder-ately-toned tweets led Bank of America to be much more effective than a fi rm that sent out one-fi fth the tweets

with a much more positive tone, such as those with promotional messages.”

Hewett and her co-au-thors at the University of Maryland and Massey Uni-versity examined how the interdependence of fi rms’ communications in both traditional and social media affects brands. They found online word of mouth to be the greatest infl uencer in what they call the “echo-verse.”

The authors analyzed the volume and tone of mes-sages in one of the most comprehensive data sets in brand communications lit-erature within the fi nancial industry – including more than 60,000 news articles, 18 million tweets and 5,000 press releases – from 2007 to 2013 – and measured their effect on consumer sentiment and business out-comes.

“Modern media are in-tensely interconnected,” said Hewett. “The only cor-porate communications tool that operated outside the

echoverse in our study was advertising.”

While advertising in-creased banks’ levels of consumer deposits, it had no signifi cant effect on tra-ditional media coverage, so-cial media tone or volume, or brand perception; how-ever, press releases were surprisingly effective. Posi-tive press releases softened customer tweets and in-creased business outcomes.

The discovery that me-dia negativity feeds on it-self confi rms leading view-points in the fi eld, but the authors also demonstrate that these negative spirals led to fewer deposits at the banks, their proxy for busi-ness outcomes.

While Twitter predict-ably had a strong effect on how consumers felt about brands, consumer senti-ment and business out-comes had little infl uence on the Twitter conversation.

Researchers found that in the early days of Twit-ter, positive messages had a more virulent tendency

Don’t ignore mean tweets

Former Luttrell recorder charged with theftA special investigation by

the Tennessee Comptroller’s Offi ce has found that former Luttrell city recorder Re-becca Ailor misappropriat-ed at least $120,506 in city money. Ailor issued more than 140 checks to herself or a family member from Sept. 11, 2012, until Feb. 22, 2016, according to the report.

Ailor was able to conceal her theft by falsifying the vice mayor’s or mayor’s sig-nature on city checks. She also recorded the checks as payments to legitimate city vendors, and prepared false documentation to support some of the unauthorized

payments. After the Comp-troller’s investigation began, she deleted the city’s com-puterized fi nancial records; however, the city’s fi nancial software vendor was able to retrieve the data.

Ailor admitted to inves-tigators that she wrote the unauthorized checks for her personal benefi t, falsi-fi ed signatures, and falsely recorded many of the pay-ments in order to hide their true purpose. She told in-vestigators that she needed the money and was trying to make ends meet.

On May 18, 2016, Rebec-ca Ailor was indicted by the

Union County Grand Jury on one count of theft over $60,000 and one count of tampering with evidence.

“It’s important for city of-fi cials to provide oversight of the fi nancial process,” said Comptroller Justin P. Wilson. “Not only was one person responsible for issu-ing checks, recording dis-bursements and depositing collections, city offi cials did not review bank statements. This allowed this scheme to go undetected for more than three years.”

To view the special investigation online, go to: comptroller.tn.gov/ia/.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • A-11 business

By Kelly NorrellBill Regas, owner of

Knoxville’s iconic Regas Restaurant until it closed in 2010, heard a great story recently.

David Gilbert, a former Regas baker, found a wal-let in his house with a tag attached. It said, “Merry Christmas from the Re-gas Family.” It still had $5 tucked inside.

Gilbert’s pleasure and subsequent call to Regas somehow capture the driv-ing force behind what was one of Tennessee’s longest running and most award-winning restaurants – a caring spirit welded to a tough work ethic.

“We’ve always worked hard to keep the team to-gether,” said Regas.

Cherokee Country Club executive chef David Pinck-ney, who worked for years as an across-town colleague but not an employee of Re-

The Regas legacyExacting standards, kind ways mark the Regas style

Bill Regas

gas, put it another way.“When I was at the Or-

angery (as executive chef), Regas was the benchmark restaurant in Knoxville, and Bill Regas was a sort of mentor to me. Now I see him two or three times a week at Cherokee, where he is a member, and he speaks every single time. He is a true gentleman.”

On June 10, Cherokee Country Club hosted a sold-out dinner attended by 101 saluting Regas Restaurant and Bill Regas. It was mod-eled on similar events hon-oring famous restaurants, Pinckney said. The white-tablecloth institution that hosted thousands of special occasion dinners and deal-making lunches closed Dec. 31, 2010, after 91 years.

Regas Restaurant set records for launching suc-cessful careers. Mike Con-nor of Connor Concepts; Randy Burleson, owner of Aubrey’s Family of Restau-rants; Rick Federico, who oversees PF Chang and oth-er restaurants for Brinker International; and Steve Puleo, owner of Puleo’s Res-taurants, are only a few Re-gas Restaurant alumni who soared.

The Regas Restaurant story began in 1919, when

Greek immigrant broth-ers George and Frank Re-gas (later joined by brother Harry) opened a 24-hour, 7 day a week diner on Gay Street near Magnolia. Capi-talizing on the crush of trav-elers from the nearby train depot, they began as Re-gas Brothers Café with an 18-stool counter, six booths and six tables seating four.

Regas said family help and a powerful work ethic were key. The brothers worked rotating shifts, one taking nights and the other serving breakfast, lunch and dinner during the day.

They learned from suc-cessful people. “My Dad always stayed active in the National Restaurant Asso-ciation, traveling to meet-ings and learning about new dishes, methods and technology. He always had the National Restau-rant Association Sign in the window.” The found-ing brothers had about 8th grade educations.

As the business grew, family and employees learned at what they called the Regas School of Res-taurateuring. Grady Regas (for whom the Grady’s Res-taurants were named), his cousin Chris Paris, and his aunt Kiki Liakonis all have

memories of hard work and long hours, beginning with dish washing.

The business evolved under the second and third generation Regas family members. Employees like Hazel Schmid, who greeted customers for 54 years, were an institution. “We had a lot of regulars come in every day. I knew where they liked to sit and who they liked to sit with,” she said.

Customers like Will Pugh loved it all – prime rib, lob-ster tails and red velvet cake as well as specialties like blueberry muffi ns and ice cream sundaes. “I’ve eaten at the restaurant so many times. Everything was great,” he said.

Regas said he thinks there will always be a place for “special” restaurants – for birthdays, anniver-saries, weddings, gradu-ations, visits from out of town guests. But he thinks the number will get smaller.

“The restaurant business is tough unless you have a lot of depth. A chef is just one person, and he’s trying to prepare the meal,” said Regas. “You can be a good cook, a good front man with a great personality. But if you don’t have a good team, you’ll wear yourself out.”

It’s Smokies baseball time for Rotarians from Knox-ville’s sev-en clubs w h e n they will “ P a c k the Park for Polio” at the Thursday, July 12, Tennessee Smokies game against the Chattanooga Lookouts. This will be the fi fth annual Pack the Park night at Smokies Park. The fi rst pitch at 7:05 p.m. will be thrown

out by District Gov.-Elect Fred

Heitman.T i c k -

ets are $12 and

$5.50 of every $12 voucher sold goes

to Rotary International’s End Polio Now Campaign. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foun-dation matches all contri-butions 2-1, so that $5.50 turns into a $16.50 dona-tion to End Polio Now!

“Play ball!!!!”

The Rotary GuyTom Kingtking535@gmail.com

■ CSA grad honoredSarah Emory, a 2016 Fulton High graduate, was

honored with the Diana and Bob Samples Community School of the Arts (CSA) $2,500 scholarship at a re-cent meeting of the Rotary Club of Knoxville. Bob is a club member.

Sarah is an outstanding student and long-time par-ticipant in CSA (since 2007). She will begin college at the University of Tennessee in the fall, pursuing a degree in Graphics and Fine Arts. For the past fi ve years she has worked under artist Robin Surber through CSA’s Side/By/Side Visual Arts Apprentice Program.

■ Butch Jones to speakHere’s a reminder about the Rotary Club of Knox-

ville’s July 26 meeting featuring UT football coach Butch Jones for the noon luncheon meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. RCK is inviting members of other Rotary Clubs and their guests to hear Coach Jones talk about the 2016 season. The Crowne Plaza ballroom seats 300, so RSVP to kxrotary@bellsouth.net.

■ Turkey Creek Club honors fi ve Five graduating seniors from Farragut High School

were each presented with a $500 scholarship from the Rotary Club of Turkey Creek to attend technical schools. The students honored were Will Sherrill, Tu Hyunh, Alecia Reynolds, Emma Clancy and Logan Mitchell.

■ $10K to go Chris Rohwer of the North Knoxville Rotary Club

is chairing a project to raise $13,000 to rebuild the kitchen at the club-sponsored Cerebral Palsy group home in Fountain City. Following his announcement, he quickly picked up $500 from the speaker, at-large county commissioner Bob Thomas, who said he would kick in $500 to clear his commission fund for com-munity grants. With a $2,500 donation from the club, Rohwer has “only” $10,000 to go.

‘Pack the Park’

By Sandra ClarkThe stars came out to

honor Eleanor Yoakum in ceremonies June 11 at Lin-coln Memorial University’s Lincoln Museum.

Former Gov. Don Sun-dquist was reunited with several former cabinet members including Yoa-kum, who served both as his commissioner of per-sonnel and later as his chief administrative of-ficer (now called deputy governor).

Former TDOT commis-sioner Bruce Saltsman drew the biggest laugh when he said, “She had a list, but Don wouldn’t let me spend the whole budget in Clai-borne County.”

“Eleanor made this road her mission” while in Nashville, said Saltsman, “and she made this com-missioner miserable.” The improvements were made to U.S. Highway 25E. The resolution to name the road was sponsored by state Sen. Frank Niceley and state Rep. Jerry Sex-ton, who now represent the area.

Both spoke at the dedi-cation.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan was eloquent in his praise: “We’re honoring a fi ne young woman here tonight. She has touched the lives of thousands of people. My dad said everything looks easier from a distance. Eleanor didn’t leave the county, and she’s made this county, this state and this country a bet-ter place.”

House Speaker Beth Har-

Eleanor Yoakum is fl anked by her children, Stephanie Barger Conner and Rob Barger, at the

dedication ceremony for the Eleanor Yoakum Highway in Claiborne County. Yoakum chairs the

board of First Century Bank.

High honor for local leader

Former Gov. Don Sundquist

well said she’s held Eleanor on a pedestal. “She has so much poise and has done so much good.”

Justin Wilson, comptrol-ler of the treasury and a former Sundquist commis-sioner, said fl atly, “This road would not have happened

had it not been for Eleanor. Highways don’t just hap-pen.”

Finally, it was the hon-oree’s turn. “I will take this honor on behalf of the Yoa-kum family,” she said.

She mentioned her par-ents, Glenn and Leo Walker

Yoakum. She talked about her sisters, Glenna Adams, who died from multiple sclerosis, and Martha Yoa-kum, “the only one of us brave enough to put her name on a ballot.” Martha Yoakum, a retired attorney, served three terms as the area’s public defender.

“And the service contin-ues,” she said, praising her daughter, Stephanie, who chairs the Tennessee Arts Commission, and her son, Rob Barger, a third-genera-tion banker who now heads

First Century Bank and chairs the Claiborne Coun-ty Economic Development Board. And out in the audi-ence sat her nephew, attor-ney Oliver Adams with his kids, and her own wonder-ful grandchildren: Walker, Elizabeth and Virginia Con-ner, and Mayson and Ella Jane Barger.

“The service continues.”

A-12 • JUNE 22, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB June 22, 2016

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Fort Sanders Regional SALUTES the more than

1800 HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS who deliver EXCELLENT CARE

to our patients every day.

That’s REGIONAL EXCELLENCE.

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Clinical staff recognitiontouches each corner of local hospital

Nurses garner top honorsOn an annual basis, two

awards are given to honor nurs-es at Fort Sanders Regional for their excellence in clinical care.

The Peggy Mayer Gilbertson award provides funds for con-tinuing education and has been given since 1989 in memory of the wife of Dr. Bob Gilbert-son, a former chief of staff at the hospital. Candidates for

the Gilbertson Fellowship are nominated by their fellow nurs-ing peers, and the recipient is chosen by the hospital’s nursing leadership staff. This year, Criti-cal Care nurse Kelly Franks was elected as the recipient.

In addition, the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Staff physi-cians named Labor and Delivery nurse, Kimberly Poe the 2016

recipient of the Elizabeth Killef-fer Award. Elizabeth Killeffer was the director of nursing from 1922 to 1960 at what was then called Fort Sanders Presbyte-rian Hospital. Since 1992, the Killeffer Award has been given to an outstanding employee who is nominated by peers and chosen by vote of the hospital physicians.

Kelly Franks, RN, Critical Care Kimberly Poe, RN, Labor and Delivery

Elizabeth Acuff , RN

Special Procedures

Tara Harvey, RN

Oncology

Kelly Smith, RN

Pulmonary

Natalie Civinelli, RN

Critical Care

Jennifer Lamb, RN

Heart/Lung/Vascular

Karen Simcox, RN, Patricia

Neal Rehabilitation Center

Laurie Somers, RN

Nephrology

Kari Derreberry, RN

Neuroscience

Patricia Mays, RN

GI Lab

Angela Turner, RN

Critical Care

Heather England, RN

Nurse Educator

Pam Wayman, RN

Orthopaedics

Amy Seal, RN

Critical Care

Laura Furnari, RN

Emergency

Cathy Daniels, RN

Pre Admission Testing

Mary Cook, RN

Cardiology

Stephanie Lee, RN

Surgery

Janice Godwin, RN

Case Management

Patricia Denny, RN

Emergency

Natalie Coward, RN

Labor and Delivery

Susan Austin, RN

Emergency

Jessica Jenkins, RN

Critical Care

Bruce Huff stetler, RN

Case Management

Kimberly Bradley, RN

Transitional Care

Tashauna Graves, RN

Float Pool

Denise Price, RN

Labor and Delivery

Fort Sanders Regional recently announced the 2016 winners of the hospital’s annual Clinical Excellence in Nursing Awards. Thirty staff members throughout the facility were recognized during a special National Nurses Week ceremony.

The awards signify the exceptional care and compassion each honored individual regularly gives to his or her patients. The Fort Sanders Nursing Excellence Awards are especially meaningful because the employees are nominated by those who provide care beside them, their nursing co-workers. The fi nal winners are then selected by a panel of hospital leaders that includes past honorees.

This year’s Excellence Awards registered nurse winners are: Jessica Jenkins, RN, Critical Care; Heather England, RN, Nurse Educator; Bruce Huffstetler, RN, Case Management; Denise Price, RN, Labor and Delivery; Kara McCrea, RN, Transitional Care; Amy Seal, RN, Critical Care; Natalie Coward, RN, Labor and Delivery; Elizabeth Acuff, RN, Special Procedures; Susan Austin, RN, Emergency; Angela Turner, RN, Critical Care; Mary Cook, RN, Cardiology; Stephanie Lee, RN, Surgery; Karen Simcox, RN, Patricia Neal; Laurie Somers, RN, Nephrology; Cathy Daniels, RN, Patient Services; Kari Derreberry, RN, Neuroscience; Tara Harvey, RN, Oncology; Laura Furnari, RN, Emergency; Janice Godwin, RN, Case Management; Jennifer Lamb, RN, Heart/Lung/Vascular; Natalie Civinelli, RN, Critical Care; Elaine Law, RN, Nephrology; Kelly Smith, RN, Pulmonary; Tashauna Graves, RN, Float Pool; Pam Wayman, RN, Orthopaedics; Patricia Denny, RN, Emergency; Kimberly Bradley, RN, Surgery or Transitional Care; Patricia Mays, RN, GI Lab.

In addition to the Nursing Ex-cellence Awards, the Fort Sanders nursing staff selected Critical Care

nurse, Kelly Franks as the recipi-ent of the 2016 Peggy Mayer Gil-bertson Outstanding Nurse of the Year Award. The hospital’s physi-cians honored Labor and Delivery nurse Kimberly Poe with the 2016 Elizabeth Killeffer Award.

Several other employees at Fort Sanders were recognized as Clinical Excellence Award winners for their outstanding achievements and ex-cellent care they provide to our pa-tients. Please join us in celebrating: Rhonda Minor, Transitional Care

Unit; Patty Furst, Ultrasound; Ju-lie Whalen, Occupational Therapy; Paula Tipton, Imaging; Niki Day, Social Services; Becky Buckner, Transitional Care Unit; Kelly John-son, Respiratory Therapy; Lisa Johnson, Labor & Delivery; Janna

Allison, Emergency Room; HeatherMoore, PNRC – Physical Therapy;Ginger Johnson, Surgery; JasonAnderson, GI Lab; Brock Bomar,PNRC; Ben Redmon, MRI; BethFields, Social Services; and KathyAllee, Pharmacy.

Elaine Law, RN

Nephrology

Kara McCrea, RN

Transitional Care

B-2 • JUNE 22, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Transportation

Automobiles for Sale

BUICK CENTURY - 1999. 92K orig. mi.,new tires, new ac, One of the nicest! $5000. (865)254-5782.

FORD THUNDERBIRD 2002, 10,700 miles, like new, Call 865-470-2646 or 865-254-1213.

PONTIAC GRAND PRIX - 2003. $1600. (865) 522-3898.

Sports and Imports

BMW CONVERTIBLE COUPE Z4 - 2004. 54,000 mi, gray, Good cond. $8000. (865)274-6806.

HONDA ACCORD EX - 2006. gray, V6, AT 116,000 mi., $8,500. (865)548-4329.

HYUNDAI ELANTRA GLS 2002 4 dr.,blue, 129.5k hwy mi. 2nd owner. Svc locally, all svc records. VG cond. /no accidents. $1900. (865)247-9614.

Kia Optima SX Limited turbo 2013,fully loaded, 28K mi, $18,900. (423)295-5393.

LEXUS 430SC 2002. Hardtop convert-ible, red, black int. New Michelins,alternator, shocks, paint. Exc. cond. 157k mi. $12,000/bo. (865)947-3465 or cell 865-850-3465

MERCEDES-BENZ E320 - 2005. 46k mi. Purchased new. $12,000. Phone (865)250-1480.

NISSAN MAXIMA - 2013. Premier. Glass roof, leather, 16k mi, like new. $17,500 (423)295-5393.

TOYOTA CAMRY - 2002. Front end damage. Runs & drives. $2500. (865)250-1480.

VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE - 2005. TDI die-sel, new timing belt, water pump, straight shift, new tires, cosmetic damage, needs windshield, $2500. (865)250-1480.

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GT - 2003. 1.8 Turbo, 5 sp. new tires, 28k mi, pur-chased new. $6000. (865)250-1480.

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GT - 2011. 2 dr. hatch. 5 sp., 44k, $6000. Bill of sale (865)250-1480.

VOLKSWAGEN JETTA - 2010. 2.5 eng., 5cyl., sunroof, all leather, bluetooth. Great cond. 2nd owner. All maint. up to date. $7050. (865)591-0775.

4 Wheel Drive

JEEP WRANGLER SPORT 2003. Darkblue, 6 cyl., hard & soft top, 97k mi, $7800. (865)609-6044; 601-527-6562

Sport Utility Vehicles

20” Hurst Trailer, dual axles, Fold down ramps. $2500.

(865)250-1480.

CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV - 2008. 37k mi, loaded, $33,000. (865)250-1480.

CHEV. TAHOE 2003. Z71, 4 wh. dr., DVD, leather & heated seats, 3rd row seats, 203k mi, good cond. $5500. (865)671-6937

FORD EXCURSION LIMITED - 2005. 4x4 6.0 diesel, 120 k, needs int. & wehave it. $8000/bo (865)250-1480.

HONDA PILOT 2012. Honda Pilot Tour-ing 2012, 4WD, fully loaded, 47K mi, exc cond, $20,500. (423)295-5393.

LINCOLN MKX - 2013. In Halls-priced $1000 under KBB Elite package..backup camera,re-mote-gate-start-lock keylessstart,NAV,voice/touch screen 4 CD,Nav,Radio Climate etc. Tan/Blk interior yew wood inlay..front seats cooled all are heated 6way seats 22 in low profiles-got it all 75,000 mi., $19,500. (865)617-3840.

MERCEDES-BENZ GL350 BLUE TECH 2015. 20,000 mi. Loaded w/all opt.$75,000. (Purch. new, 1 owner. 865)250-1480.

MERCEDES-BENZ GL450 27,000 2011. 59k mi, $27,500 or best offer.(865)250-1480.

NISSAN MURANO - 2007. Excellentcondition, Runs and drives like new, All Power, Garage kept,Goodtires, Very clean interior. 79,000 mi., $8,700. (865)531-8372.

Trucks

CHEVROLET S-10 - 1999. V6, Auto-matic, A/C. $2,400. Contact 865-323-4280

Chevy Extreme SL 2002 PU, exc cond,always garaged, well maint. $8,000. (865)933-6802.

Classic Cars

ALL MOPAR CAR SHOWSat. June 25, Chilhowee Park Midway

Side, Knoxville, TN. Info:etmcarclub@gmail.com

Easttennesseemopars.comor 865-691-6002

AUTO STORAGE

SECURE CLIMATE

CONTROL STORAGE$50/monthPowell, TN

Claude Yow

865-924-7718I WOULD LIKE TO BUY

a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not run-ning. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have

one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.

Commercial Vehicles

2 CONCESSION TRAILERS with equipment, call for information,(865)688-7401, leave message.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

Auto Parts & Acc

2005 FORD EXCURSION - 6.0 die-sel eng. 51K, $4000 exchange. (865)250-1480.

2008 NTO DODGE MEGA CAB - Dooley 6’ truck bed. $1500/b.o.

(865)250-1480.

6’ DODGE BED 2008 - $600.

(865)250-1480.

BMW 2006, 3.0 ENGINE. - 61k mi. $2500.

(865)250-1480.

BUICK 1975 455 eng., 74K miles, U pull. $500.

(865)250-1480.

Chevy LT1, alum head, 350, 70K mi,computer, wiring harness, with 4L60E complete pkg. Make offer. (423) 836-3820.

FORD 1997 F250 8’ BEDS Dual gas tanks. $500.

(865)250-1480.

FORD 2009. 8’ F350 Dual wheel bed, $1200.

(865)250-1480.

Auto Notices

LEGAL NOTICE 1964 Ford Falcon, VIN#

4H1571T129449. Any and all parties holding an interest in this vehicle must contact the person in posses-sion of the vehicle, D. Turner 865-922-5498, by certified mail, return receipt requested, within ten (10)business days of the date of thepublication.

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

14’ Trihull fishing boat, 25 HP Evin-rude motor, & trailer, Motorguideelec trolling motor, 2 fish finders, safety equip & fishing equip. $1850.(865) 428-6156.

1984 Renken 17’ ski boat, Chryslinboard motor, w/trailer. $2,000. (865)556-0884.

1995 ALUMACRAFT BASS BOATw/1996 50HP 2 cycle Evinrude Motor,Hustler trailer w/spare tire, incl. 2fish finders, motoguide 46 thrusttrolling motor, 2 live wells, 2 batter-ies, $3500. Hustler pontoon trailer for 20’ boat. $1500. (865)245-9738.

1995 PONTOON BOAT - 24’, New trailer. $5200. (865)898-5369.

Campers & RV’s

2009 FLEETWOOD ELKHORN side in camper, 11’, Has air, heat, gen-erator, microwave, stove oven, ref.freezer. good condition needs to go. Call 865-679-9175.

2010 CANYON STAR 39’ Class A gasmtr home by Newmar, top of the line loaded, great floorplan, 18700 miles, exc condition, ext svc con-tract avail, $72900 details 865 681 8976 (865)681-8976.

2011 SUNDANCE 5th whl, exc cond,end LR, 31’, $22,000 obo.

(865)617-6914

2013 HEARTLAND BIG HORN model 3070 5th Wheel, 34’, 3 slides, autoleveling, icemaker, Arctic pkg, 2 AC’s, cent. vacuum, power awning, used very little. $39,000. 865-922-7838 or 865-803-9114

30’ COUTRY SQUIRE, 30 min. fromKnoxville in Vonore, set up in family campground. Never smoked in, full covered front porch, view of lake, util. incl. in lot rent. NICE! $2500 firm. (865)257-1415.

JAYCO DESIGNER 34’ 2000, 5th wheelcamper, 1 lg. slide, exc. cond. $8495 obo. (865)368-8578.

KEYSTONE ALPINE 5TH WHEEL, 2012, luxury RV, 38’ loaded. $32,500(865)548-4329.

MONTANA BY KEYSTONE 35’ 5thwheel, 3 slides, exc. cond. used very little. $15,500.

(423)519-4245 or (423)836-2642.

MONTANA KEYSTONE 5TH WHEEL - 2005, 4 pullouts, great live in cond. Asking $21,200. (865)482-7700.

NEW & PRE-OWNED

CLEARANCE SALE

ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!

Check Us Out AtNorthgaterv.com

or call 865-681-3030

REDUCED. 2004 Holiday RamblerVacationer 37 PCT, exc cond, gas Ford V10, low miles - 25K+, 3 slides,sitting rm off BR, french doors from BR to bath, dbl refrig w/ice maker, elec. awning, full body paint, stored indoors, Need to sell. $44,900 nego. 865-357-2417 or 304-444-7761

Motorcycles/Mopeds

2003 GOLDWING - red, exc cond, 51K mi, new tires/windshield/backrest. Asking $8900.

1996 GOLDWING TRIKE - lots of chrome & extras, 98K mi, runs great, with trailer. Asking $12,500. Call (865) 660-7007

2011 VICTORY CROSS ROADS16,250 mi., extras, $8500.

(423)465-0631.

CUSHMAN UTILITY VEHICLE. $2000.

(865)250-1480.

HD 2015 Tri-Glide, older owner, 5K mi,many extras, like new, $29K. Knoxville 540-538-4858; 865-774-9791

MOPEDS 3 SACHS $700 EACH and 3 WIZARDS.

Call for info. (865)365-1497.

Off Road Vehicles

2011 HONDA FOREMAN - 4x4 ES, 372.6mi, 56.8H, like new. $5100. 865-609-6044; 601-527-6562 Seymour.

GOAD MOTORSPORTSConvenient New Location!

Exit 134 • Caryville

Tennessee’s LargestCFMOTO Dealer!

CFMOTO72 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE

26 YEARS STRONG

Large Selection of Side by Sides including 4 Seaters!

168 Main St., Caryville 423-449-8433

www.goadmotorsports.comLike us on FACEBOOK

• FULL SERVICE CENTER

• MECHANIC ON DUTY

• PARTS & ACCCESSORIES AVAILABLE

Personal Watercraft

2007 SEA DOO GTX 3 SEATER/Colbalt blue, 35 hrs. w/Hustler

Trailer, Beautiful machine, $6500. (865)719-7606.

Jobs

Child Care

HELP WANTED - Little People Pre-school looking for loving, ener-getic individuals wanting to workFT or PT Mon-Fri. Must be at least 18 w/high school diploma. Applyat 6830 Tice Lane, Knoxville, TN.(865) 922-1335 or (865) 688-7806or m_bowlin1@yahoo.com

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: NO-TOUCH! - Get Home,Get Paid! Excellent Pay Per\Wk! + Monthly Bonuses. Strong BenefitsPackage. CDL-A 1yr exp. 888-406-9046.

ServicesOffered

Air Cond/Heating

HOMETOWN AIR“Back to the basics”

Lennox17.00 S.E.E.R Heat Pump

Financing Available

Auto Services

Cleaning Services

DEEP CLEANING Specializes in deep cleaning for

residential and commerical properties and window cleaning

25 years experience! Free estimates! References avail.

Contact (865)363-8207

Buy and Sell here!

Wheels/Recreation

Dozer Work/Tractor

• Bobcat w/Backhoe Attachment• Footer• Above-Ground Pools• Sewer Installations• Landscaping• Bush Hogging• Driveways• Firewood etc.

BOBCAT/BACKHOESmall dump truck. Small jobs

welcome & appreciated! Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.

General Services

ADVANTAGEREMODELING &

HANDYMAN SERVICEJIMMY THE PROFESSIONAL

HANDYMAN!!Can fix, repair or install anything

around the house! Appliances, ceramic tile, decks,

drywall, fencing, electrical, garage doors,

hardwoods, irrigation, crawlspace moisture, mold & odor control, landscape,

masonry, painting, plumbing. Any Remodeling Needs you wish

to have done or completed!

EMERGENCY SERVICE 24/7Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.

Call (865)281-8080

Home Maint./Repair

HANDYMANCARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting,

siding. Free est. 30+ yrs exp! (865)607-2227

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICEWill clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

(865)288-0556

HONEST& DEPENDABLE!

Small jobs welcome. Exp’d in carpentry, drywall, painting,

plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail.Call Dick at (865)947-1445

Miscellaneous

IF YOU HAD HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT

SURGERY AND SUFFERED AN

INFECTION between 2010 and the present

time, you may be entitled to compensation.

Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

Plumbing

All Types of Residential & Commercial Plumbing

MASTER PLUMBER40 Years Experience � Licensed & Bonded

922-8728 � 257-3193

DAVID HELTON

PLUMBING CO.

Tree Services

Owner Operator Roger Hankins

497-3797Pruning • Logging

Bush HoggingStump Removal

Insured FREE ESTIMATES • LIFETIME EXPERIENCE

HankinsTree Service

EDWARDS TREE SERVICEInterior Pruning, Complete

Removal, Power Stump Grinding

Insured • Free Estimates

922-0645Workers Comp Liability

Buy & Sell fast!Wheels/Recreation

Tree Services

Breeden's Tree Service

Aerial buckettruck

Stump grindingBrush chipperBush hoggingTrimming &

removingLicensed and insured

Over 30 yrs. experienceFree estimates

865-219-9505

Blank’s Tree Work

All types of Tree Care and Stump Removal

FULLY INSURED FREE ESTIMATES

924-7536

Will beat written estimates w/comparable credentials.

LOCAL CALL

TREE WORKAND POWER STUMP GRINDER

Free est, 50 yrs exp!Call (865)804-1034

Garage Sales

North

CHURCH FLEA MARKET- Sat. 6/25,8:30 am-3pm, rain or shine. Lots of vendors and great stuff! St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broad-way, 37917. 523-5687.

ESTATE SALE - June 25th. 8am-4pm.7329 Palmyra Dr. in Palmer Hills S/D. Items incl ‘79 Cadillac DeVille,washer, dryer, couch, Jenny Lynn bed, dining room set. 865-789-4808.

GARAGE SALE - 7601 Hoff Ln in Emory Estates S/D. June 25th, 8am-?. Baby boy clothing, pilates power gym plus, some fishing stuff, and more!

NEW PLEASANT GAP BAPTIST CHURCH YARD SALE - Sat. June 25th, 8am-4pm. At corner of Gor-don Smith Rd and Norris Freeway.Clothing, shoes, purses, and misc.

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Farm Equipment

1943 JOHN DEERE TRACTOR, MODELB, Electric start, looks great, does not run. $1400 obo. (423)620-1850.

1995 763 Bobcat, only 1200 hours,good paint, really nice tires, $13,500. (865) 475-1182

2510 JOHN DEERE TRACTOR, - good cond. Work or collector. 54 HP die-sel, 1960’s mod., $5900. 865-984-3021 or 931-526-5574

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

FRESH HAY, 4X4 ROLLS, IN BLAINE $25 a roll, 100 rolls or more -

$20 a roll. (865) 216-5387

WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER

Call 865-719-1623

Livestock & Supplies

NEW ZEALAND RED RABBITS

Call (865)922-8513.

Pets

Dogs

ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD puppies, working/champion lines, $600.(865) 322-5531

BICHON FRISE male puppy, 9 wks old,$650. (865)607-5463

CAVALIER KING CHARLES Spanielpups 8 wks, ACA reg., vet ck’d, shots & dewormed, loving temperments,$900 M, $1000 F, 423-620-3677.

German Shepherd puppies, 4 F, 1 M, parents on site, shots, dewormed,hips & health guar. $950. 865-361-1013

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS - AKC, Male s & fem. Shots & wormed up to date.$400. (865)397-2425

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, WestGerman bldlns, 5M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251.

GOLDEN DOODLE PUPPIES - F1B,males & fem. avail. Parents onpremises. Must see. (423)733-9252

GREAT DANE puppies, AKC, various colors, avail July 18th.

(859) 940-9252

LAB PUPS, AKC, (Sire), Black, Master hunter 2015 National pass, going back in 2016. (Dame) choc., great retriever hunter. $800. 2 wk. old. Taking dep. now. (423)506-6446.

LABRADOODLES, GOLDEN DOODLES - DOUBLE DOODLES. DOB 4/17/16. Non-shedding, intelligent, litter box trained. 865-591-7220

MALTI POO Beautiful puppies, white, apricot or gold, shots, $350-$450. 865-717-9493

MINI DACHSHUND puppies, CKC reg, 3 males, B&T piebald, ready 7/1.$500 - $100 dep. (865) 335-8573

MINI SCHNAUZERS. CKC. Salt & peppper, 1st shots & dew claws, $500. Call (423) 736-0277.

Miniature Mastiff Bulldogs. Cane Corso/French Bulldog cross. Beauti-ful blues, shots, healthy, $500-$800. (865) 457-5907

MINIATURE PINSCHER PUPPIES - CKCReg. All shots & worming current.Males only. $150 ea. 423-775-3662 or423-834-1230

Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppies - AKC Reg. Parents on Premises. Adorable little munchkins. Home raised. (423)733-9252

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos,

Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar.

Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates.

423-566-3647

SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, Females $600; Males $500. Shots UTD. War-ranty. 423-618-8038; 423-775-4016

WEIMARANER PUPPIES, - 7 weeks old,silver, blues, parents on premises.$450. (423)244-6676

Cats

SAVANNAH Female F-5, 9 weeks, TICAreg, $1800. (423) 539-1577

Merchandise

Appliances

FRIGIDAIRE SS refrig, 20 cu ft,30x31x68, exc cond, $250.

(865) 567-8842

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

UPRIGHT FRIGIDAIRE FREEZER - 20foot upright freezer. $100 Contact (865)922-0337

Building Materials

PALLET RACKING, - various sizes & kind.

(865)250-1480

Cemetery Lots

2 CEMETERY LOTS - in Highland West, down front, $500 each. Call(865)947-0767.

2 LOTS w/crypts incl at SherwoodMem. Gardens in Garden of Last Supper sect. $2500 ea. 865-806-5972

GREENWOOD CEMETARY 1 plot. $5,200. Will negotiate. (865)688-9393

Highland Memorial Chapel Knox. TrueCompanion interior. Lists $15,995. Sell $12,000. Details (865)309-0170

LYNNHURST CEMETERY - 2 plots.

Call Mike (865)978-5271

MANY PRIME CEMETERY LOTS - avail-able in various gardens at OakRidge Memorial Park. Sacrifice at $1200 per lot with buyer paying $95 deed transfer fee. Call James at 865-882-8125 for info.

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • B-3

THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 26“Charlie & the Chocolate Factory,”

Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22Bits ’N Pieces Quilt Guild meeting, 1 p.m.,

Community Center in Norris. “Sit and Sew,” 9:30 a.m.-noon before the meeting. Visitors and new members welcome. No July meeting; all invited to free quilt show that is part of the July 4th Norris Day Celebration. Info: Mary Jane Berry, 494-7841.

Free introductory “Zumba Gold” class, 10:30 a.m., Take Charge Fitness Program, 1921 N. Charles Seivers Blvd., in Clinton. Zumba Gold is designed for active older adults. Info: 457-8237.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JUNE 23Community potluck, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Narrow

Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Bring a dish to share. Info: 497-2753 or community@narrowridge.org.

Excel 2013 certifi cate class, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. Free class taught by Pellissippi State instructors. Learn new or upgrade old skills. Space limited; registration required. Info: Bill or Jackie, 524-5511.

Hospitality Job Fair, 1-4 p.m., Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. On-site interviews and applications with local employers in the hotel, convention and hospitality industries. Info: Bill or Jackie, 524-5511.

“If You Build it, They Will Come,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Info: 329-8892.

Shakespeare for Kids, 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 688-1501.

FRIDAY, JUNE 24Annual fi sh fry, 5-7 p.m., Andersonville UMC,

3944 Andersonville Highway. Cost: adults, $7; children 12 and younger, $5. Meal includes all-you-can-eat fi sh, hushpuppies, slaw, fries, dessert and drinks. Proceeds will benefi t youth scholarship fund.

Concert in the Commons: Matt Honkonen, 7 p.m., The Norris Commons, the lawn in front of the Norris Middle School. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info: Facebook.

Ijams Nature Center presents “Can You Hear the Frogs?” 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 24-25Daylily Bloom Festival, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.,

Oakes Daylilies, 8153 Monday Road, Corryton. Info: oakesdaylilies.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25Burlington Summer Movie Saturdays: “Star

Wars: The Force Awakens,” 1:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Film night: “The Salt of the Earth” (PG-13), 7-9 p.m., Narrow Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: 497-2753 or community@narrowridge.org.

Fourth Saturday Jam Session, 7 p.m., old Rush Strong School in Sharps Chapel. Free admission. Includes bluegrass, country and gospel music. Drinks and snacks available, donations appreciated.

“If You Build it, They Will Come,” 10:30 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Info: 470-7033.

Lego Club, 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastrogiovanni, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Sarah Rysewyk, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Union County Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, Wilson Park. Info: 992-8038.

MONDAY, JUNE 27Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 11 a.m.,

Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28Teen Splatter Art Crafts, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Powell

Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. For teens 12-17. Info: 947-6210.

Union County Library Board meeting, 2 p.m., Sharps Chapel Senior Center, 1550 Sharps Chapel Road. The Sharps Chapel Book Station will be discussed. The public is invited.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2-4:15 p.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Registration required. Info/registration: 525-5431.

Free introductory “Zumba Gold” class, 10:30 a.m., Take Charge Fitness Program, 1921 N. Charles Seivers Blvd., in Clinton. Zumba Gold is designed for active older adults. Info: 457-8237.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 4 p.m.,

Mascot Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Info: 933-2620.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 2 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Robotics @ the Library, 5 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For teens ages 12-15. Info/registration: Nicole Barajas, nbarajas@knoxlib.org, or 525-5431.

SATURDAY, JULY 2Union County Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon,

Wilson Park. Info: 992-8038.

SUNDAY, JULY 3Pilot Fireball Moonlite Classic 5K and Little

Firecracker Mile, 9 p.m., UT Vet School with the route running along Neyland Drive. Hosted by the Knoxville Track Club. Info/registration: ktc.org/RaceFireball.html; or Bo Saulsbury, bosaulsbury@gmail.com.

MONDAY, JULY 4Concert in the Commons: Alex Guthrie, 7 p.m.,

The Norris Commons, the lawn in front of the Norris Middle School. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info: Facebook.

Powell Lions Club 4th of July Parade, 11:30 a.m., step off from the former Food City parking lot (KARM). Participants: no registration or fees; should be in the parking lot by 10:30 a.m. Info: 640-1053 or tnpowelllions@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6Chalk on the Walk, 11:30 a.m., Halls Branch

Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JULY 7Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer,

10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. All welcome. Info/registration: 922-2552.

SATURDAY, JULY 9Musical Stories and Songs with Jodie

Manross, 11 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Union County Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, Wilson Park. Info: 992-8038.

Vintage baseball, noon and 2:30 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Games and parking free; concessions available. Bring lawn chair or blanket for seating. Info: ramseyhouse.org.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JULY 14Halls Book Club: “House of Spirits,” 1 p.m.,

Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. All welcome. Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY, JULY 15Concert in the Commons: Lydia Salnikova,

7 p.m., The Norris Commons, the lawn in front of the Norris Middle School. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info: Facebook.

Diabetes Education Class, 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Free program presented by UT Extension. Info: 922-2552.

Museum of Education Sock Hop, 7-10 p.m., Sarah Simpson Professional Development Technology Center, 801 Tipton Ave. Features: live music, appearance by Sammy “Barney Fife” Sawyer, silent auction, “prom” photo packages and more. Tickets: $25; available at all Knoxville Teachers Federal Credit Union locations, at the museum and online at http://bit.ly/1RUAA4J. Info: knoxschools.org/museum.

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A SHOPPER-NEWS SPECIAL SECTION ON FINANCES AND INVESTMENTS JUNE 22, 2016TION ON FINANCES AND INVESTMENTS JUNE 2

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By Carol Z. ShaneIn the waiting area of the People’s

Home Equity offi ce on Gill Street in Maryville, informational brochures cover a table. On one, there’s a vintage picture of a woman plugging both ears with her fi ngers and clamping her eyes tightly shut. The caption reads, “Reverse mort-gages are terrible!”

“That’s how I used to think,” says Lo-ren Riddick, who has spent most of his al-most-20-year career facilitating forward mortgages. Now, however, he travels the country educating People’s Home Equity agents in 70 locations about HECM – Home Equity Conversion Mortgages.

There’s more fl exibility inherent in the loan than most consumers think, he says. There’s a qualifying process. And protec-tions are in place for the heirs.

Riddick says that a reverse mortgage works much like a home equity loan in that it provides cash otherwise inacces-sible to the homeowner who wants to continue to own the home. The difference is that, with a home equity loan, the bor-rower must pay back a certain amount

Loren Riddick of People’s Home Equity in Maryville is a reverse-mortgage specialist. He’s shown with

his family: Tucker, a student at University of Ala-bama, daughter Lucy and wife Missi.

There’s plentyto learn aboutreverse mortgages

each month and the total owed decreases; with a reverse mortgage, the debt accrues, and though a running total is reported to the homeowner in monthly statements, regular payments are not required. In Riddick’s words, a home equity loan bor-rower receives a statement from the bank each month saying, “You pay me,” but a HECM holder receives a statement say-ing, “You acknowledge me.”

Gerry St. Claire, who owns Midland Restaurant in Maryville, admits that “the only thing that bothers me is watch-ing that interest pile up” on the monthly statements. But St. Claire, who has had his HECM for “about four or fi ve years” still thinks it’s a good deal. “It hit at a time when we really needed it, during the

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MY-2 • JUNE 22, 2016 • Shopper news

Lillian Crocco and Ray Winsky, both widowed, met at a gathering of HECM holders. Now they’re an item. Photo submitted

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recession,” he says. “We still had a house payment. It worked great for us.”

Sarah Pressley of Sweetwater says, “I had taken care of my parents for 12 years. I lost a lot of money. I fi led for Social Se-curity the day I was eligible.” But it wasn’t enough to meet her needs. “I thought, ‘if something happens to my husband, I’m sunk!’” She says she had to fi nd a way to feel secure about her future. She and her husband applied for and got a HECM. She doesn’t worry about the accrued interest; she and her husband don’t intend to pay off the loan during their lifetimes. “It’s something less to worry about,” she says.

According to “A Family Guide to Re-verse Mortgages,” which is available in Riddick’s offi ce, “Repayment of a reverse mortgage is deferred to when the loan is due (when the borrower dies, moves or sells the home.) The heirs, Riddick says, “cannot be handed a debt.” They automat-ically receive fi ve percent equity in the

home and have several options, including selling, refi nancing or even walking away and turning the home over to the bank. “Reverse mortgages are ... non-recourse, FHA-insured loans, offering additional safeguards for senior borrowers and their families,” states the brochure.

Ray Winsky of Alcoa says, “It’s worked out really well for me.” Winsky got more than he bargained for; a widower, he is now dating someone he met because of his involvement with Riddick. “Every once in a while Loren has a little party and that’s how I met her,” he says with a grin.

Riddick says that the only people who might not want to consider a HECM are either “ignorant, like I used to be,” or those who want to bequeath to their heirs a free and clear home. He urges every-one who is interested in a HECM to get the facts. “You don’t know what you don’t know,” he says. “If I can encourage people to learn more, I’ve done my job.”

Savings program S tate Treasurer David H. Lillard

Jr. has announced the opening of AbleTN, a new program to help

those with disabilities plan and save for the future. A program of the Tennessee Treasury Department, AbleTN will allow account holders the opportunity to save and invest with tax-free earnings to help individuals with disabilities maintain independence and quality of life.

Tennessee is one of the fi rst states in the nation to offer these savings accounts.

AbleTN accounts are easy to set up and manage at AbleTN.gov, Lillard said. Earnings on investments in an AbleTN account will be tax-free as long as the funds are used to cover the cost of quali-fi ed disability expenses.

“I commend the Tennessee General Assembly for passing legislation that positively impacts our most vulnerable citizens,” Lillard said. “As with all of the programs in the Treasury Department, we will remain dedicated to those who participate and those who wish to join us

in educating communities on how these programs can make a difference in the lives of Tennesseans.”

Lillard was joined by state Rep. Debra Moody of Covington, Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder of the Department of Veterans Services, and some of the families who are excited to open AbleTN accounts in Tennessee.

The Tennessee AbleAct was passed by the 109th General Assembly. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Becky Massey of Knoxville with several co-sponsors.

“As executive director of the Sertoma Center, I work with over 100 adults who live with intellec-tual disabilities. I know the families that will greatly benefi t from the savings possible in an AbleTN account,” Massey said. “I am so proud that Tennes-see is one of the fi rst states in the nation

targets individualswith disabilities

to offer these accounts.” “My wife and I are parents, and we

know what it’s like to worry about your children and their fi nancial future. We

wanted this resource to be available to help the thou-sands of Tennessee parents who need more help to save for the costs of care for their children,” said Rep. Kevin Brooks.

AbleTN is a savings program designed to help individuals with physical and/or mental disabili-ties put aside money with tax-free earnings to pay for qualifi ed expenses. There

will be no impact on federal means-tested benefi ts for accounts with a balance of less than $100,000.

AbleTN will offer participants the abil-ity to select from 14 diverse investment options, the same top-performing invest-ment options available through TNStars College Savings 529 program, which has been consistently ranked top fi ve in the county by SavingForCollege.com.

There is no state residency require-ment. All qualifi ed U.S. residents with a disability that occurred before their 26th birthday can open an AbleTN account, if they are eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or have ob-tained a disability diagnosis by a quali-fi ed physician. The individual with the disability is the owner of the account, but accounts may be created by the benefi -ciary, parents/guardians or a third party. Benefi ciaries are limited to one ABLE account at a time.

Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • MY-3

M ajority of seniors unaware they can sell their life insurance policies

More than eight out of 10 seniors are not aware they can sell their life insur-ance policy for an immediate cash pay-ment.

According to a survey of more than

600 people conducted by Coventry Di-rect, 86.1 percent of life insurance policy owners do not know they have the choice to sell their unwanted policy instead of lapsing it for nothing or surrendering it for its cash value. Even a term policy with no cash value can be sold.

Consider this story: A car dealership

An option forUnwanted life insurance

As gas prices continue to drop, mo-torists should take advantage of their savings at the pump and invest it back into their vehicles. By spending a little now to increase fuel effi ciency, drivers can multiply fuel savings and save more money at the pump, according to the Car Care Council.

Here are a few simple steps for mo-torists to be car care aware to improve fuel effi ciency and save money in the long run:

■ Engine performance: Keep your car properly tuned to improve gas mileage by an average of four percent.

■ Tire pressure: Keep tires prop-erly infl ated and improve gas mileage by up to 3.3 percent.

■ Motor oil: Improve gas mileage by 1 to 2 percent by using the grade of motor oil recommended by the manu-facturer.

■ Air fi lters: Replacing clogged air fi lters on older vehicles can improve fuel economy and will improve perfor-mance and acceleration on all vehicles.

■ Gas cap: Damaged, loose or missing gas caps allow gas to vaporize into the air.

For more tips to increase savings and fuel effi ciency for your vehicle, visit www.carcare.org.

Tips to save moneyat the pump

Satisfying a craving has become easier than ever with the growing menu of interactive tools available at restaurants. From ordering to entertaining to reward-ing, these resources make it simple to enjoy visiting your favorite eateries.

With technology trans-forming nearly every other aspect of life, it should come as no surprise that mobile and electronic tools, such as Outback Steakhouse’s new mobile app, are fast-grow-ing restaurant trends.

Other enhancements make it faster and more entertain-ing to dine away from home. To make the most of your next meal out, fi nd out which of the following services your favor-ite restaurants is offering:

Mobile apps. You use your smartphone for every-thing else, so why not at your favorite restaurant? Mobile apps give customers more control over their dining ex-perience, allowing them to choose how and when they want to pay the bill, receive exclusive offers, join the wait list and check in. Using the new Outback Steakhouse mobile app, you can peruse the menu ahead of time and when the meal is done, there’s no need to wait for the bill; you can pay right from your phone, split the check, add a tip and even securely store payment details for future visits. To learn more, visit outback.com/app.

Call ahead seating. While you used to have to physically go to a restaurant and wait in line, you can now call ahead to fi nd out the esti-mated wait time and put your party on the list for now or a later time, before walking out your door. Some restaurants even allow you to view the current wait times and join the list on their websites.

Online ordering. When restaurants fi rst began offer-ing carry out menus, you had to physically go to the restau-rant, place your order and wait while it was prepared. Today, you can either call your order in or with a few clicks, place your order on-line and have it delivered or ready for carry out at the time you choose. Some restau-rants even allow you to save favorite orders for future use.

Interactive table kiosks. This trend started with tableside games for simple entertainment while you waited for your order, but quickly evolved into much more. Now, not only can you pass the time playing games solo or with table mates, you can peruse the menu, place orders and pay your bill all on your own schedule.

Rewards programs. Whether you’re earning stamps or swiping a card, rewards programs can pay

Tech transforms dining out experience

owner originally purchased a $488,000 life insurance policy as a way to fund a buy/sell agreement with his business partner. After the business dissolved, his family continued to pay the premiums, but eventually decided they no longer needed the coverage. He was planning to surrender the policy back to the insur-ance company for $6,800 until he saw Coventry Direct on TV. He called them and was pleased to learn he had another option in which he was able to sell his policy for $80,000 – more than 10 times what he would have received from the insurance company. The proceeds were divided among his three children, which they used to supplement their income.

“When seniors decide they no longer need or can’t afford their life insurance policy, the typical decision they make is to lapse or surrender it back to the insur-ance company,” said Alan Buerger, CEO of Coventry Direct. “The vast majority of these seniors have no idea they may be able to sell that unneeded life insur-ance policy for several times more than its cash value.”

Life insurance is personal property, has value and can be sold just like your home. The proceeds of the unwanted pol-icy can be put toward paying health care bills, paying off debt or subsidizing other retirement expenses.

To learn more about the option of sell-ing your life insurance policy, visit coven-trydirect.com/lifesettlements or call 888-858-9344.

big for frequent customers. Ba-sic approaches involve a punch or stamp card that accumu-lates toward a free menu item. More sophisticated programs let guests earn points toward free or discounted meals, offer exclusive discounts and engage

patrons in special promotions. The Bloomin’ Brands’ Dine Re-wards program, coming this summer, will allow customers to earn up to 50 percent off their fourth visit to any one of its restaurants, including Out-back Steakhouse.

Through technology, restau-rant service has evolved into an uber-personal affair. Inter-acting with the special features available through your favorite restaurants lets you customize nearly every aspect of your cu-linary experience.

MY-4 • JUNE 22, 2016 • Shopper news

W hether a Millennial keen to put down roots and buy a house in the near future, a Gen Xer intent

on nourishing credit health to keep life goals on track or a Boomer who wants to ensure their fi nances are in order before retirement, good credit health matters. A majority of Americans feel it directly cor-relates with their overall happiness, too.

Three-out-of-fi ve people say that a higher credit score plays an important role in their happiness, according to the Chase Slate 2016 Credit Outlook. Yet 30 percent of Americans have not checked their credit score in the last year and, of those, one-in-fi ve elected to stay in the dark out of fear their score might be low.

Farnoosh Torabi, personal fi nance ex-pert and Chase Slate fi nancial education partner, suggests taking action now to let go of the fear factor and fi nd fi nancial happiness with these tips:

■ Don’t fear the future, plan for itDid you dip into savings last year, or maybe not

manage to save much at all? Instead of worrying about depleted savings, put your energy toward refueling that account immediately. A good rule of thumb is to have six to nine months of savings to cover necessary expenses in the event of an emer-gency, like a job loss or disability. Beyond savings, take time to make sure you’ve got all of the proper protections in place, from health to life insurance and homeowners to auto insurance.

■ Get up-close and personal with your credit standingFinancial unknowns can be scary at fi rst, but

you’ve got to understand where you stand now to be able to fi gure out where you can go next. Turns out top-notch credit can be your golden ticket to se-curing an affordable mortgage or qualifying for the best interest rates. So take a deep breath and check your credit score (for free, if you can). The Chase Slate Credit Dashboard empowers customers to get to know their credit standing with access to a free monthly FICO score and the specifi c positive and

3 Ways to Find Financial Happiness

this year

negative factors behind it.

■ Raise your hand … and your voiceIf you’re feeling uninspired by

a “9 to 5” job, fi nd ways to act like an entrepreneur within your role. Taking on new responsibilities or proactively inventing new systems can make you stand out both within your company and your industry, which may bring fi nancial rewards. Don’t be afraid to ask for the pay raise you deserve – just do your homework fi rst. Take time to under-stand your company’s fi nancial posi-tion, research your market value and prepare a case study of your achieve-ments and value.

For more tips to improve credit health and fi nd fi nancial happiness, visit Chase.com/news.

Shopper news • JUNE 22, 2016 • MY-5

P ersistent and signifi cant stock market swings, com-

bined with shifting workplace structures and an outdated retirement benefi t system, are profoundly impacting Ameri-cans’ ability to save and pre-pare for a secure retirement.

In fact, a quarter of Ameri-cans age 50 and over exhaust-ed all of their savings during the 2008 recession, according to a recent AARP Public Policy Institute report. And, at the same time, almost one-third of older Americans said their home declined in value, mean-ing they could no longer count on rising home values to help fund their retirement.

In order to protect your nest egg against market volatility, experts recommend ensuring you have a balanced fi nancial portfolio that includes con-servative, low-risk products that are less impacted by stock market volatility.

“The single most impor-tant step Americans can take to mitigate risk is to diver-sify their portfolios,” said Jim Poolman, Executive Director of the Indexed Annuity Lead-ership Council. “Sitting with a fi nancial planner and using a retirement calculator can help you determine where you are, where you want to be and what savings vehicles can help you get there.”

While there are no surefi re ways to avoid the effects of

Navigating volatile markets for a secure retirement

stock market instability, there are some things you can do to reduce the likelihood that you will suffer the consequences in the future, and things you can do during a market downturn.

■ Start saving nowMany people are focused on pay-

ing down student loans and other debt, or concentrating on more im-mediate goals like buying a house and children’s college funds. How-ever, the cost of putting off retire-

ment savings adds up. Every six years you wait to start saving, the monthly amount you need to save to reach the same retirement in-come doubles.

■ Avoid putting all of your assets into one type of account While contributing to an em-

ployer’s 401(k) is a terrifi c start, it’s often not enough. To build a solid retirement plan, don’t un-

derestimate the importance of a balanced fi nancial portfolio. Your level of risk should refl ect your age and your retirement goals. For ex-ample, younger savers have more time to recover from risk than those nearing retirement. One option to provide balance to your retirement portfolio is adding a Fixed Indexed Annuity, which protects your principal and can provide a guaranteed stream of income in retirement, regardless of market ups and downs.

■ Create a retirement plan based on actual needsA study by the Employ-

ee Benefi t Research Insti-tute found 39 percent of people guess how much they will need to save without actually calcu-lating their retirement needs. Using calculators can help determine your specifi c retire-ment income needs so that you can plan accordingly. Calculat-ing just your living costs isn’t enough – also take into ac-count rising healthcare costs, infl ation and longer lifespans.

■ Monitor and adjust your savings strategyVolatility in the stock mar-

ket can affect your savings, as do your current expenses and future needs. Addition-ally, career changes and fam-ily situations can change how you should be saving. Leading up to retirement, your last few years of savings will be differ-ent than when you were fi rst starting out in your career. A good rule of thumb is to spend fi ve minutes every fi ve years revisiting your retirement plan to make sure your savings re-fl ect your needs and adjust for market conditions.

Learn more about options for managing your retirement account at FIAinsights.org.

For a good portion of Americans, life insur-

ance is a critical compo-nent of fi nancial plan-ning. However, in recent months, many seniors have been hit with an un-welcome surprise as sev-

eral insurers are raising the premiums on their life insurance policies.

When a life insurance policy becomes too ex-pensive to maintain due to premium increases, the owner can be faced with

some diffi cult decisions.Consider this story: A

75 year-old man owned a Universal Life insur-ance policy with a death benefi t of approximately $500,000, which he pur-chased to provide income

How to CombatRising Life Insurance Costs

for his wife in the event of his death. Unfortunately, a battle with pros-tate cancer dealt him a fi nancial blow and the low interest rates took a toll on the cash value in his policy. Then came the sucker punch: the life insur-ance company was raising his premiums to al-most twice what he had originally planned.

He was told that he would re-ceive just $1,006 in cash surrender value from the in-surance company. Instead, he con-tacted Coventry Direct. Through a life settlement, he

received $10,000, which he used to supplement his retirement income, get-ting out from underneath the policy and putting some extra change in his pockets at the same time.

If you are among those policyholders facing an increase in premiums that is stretching you out of your budget com-fort zone, it may be time to explore your options. There are a few things you can do to combat ris-

ing life insurance costs:Pay the higher premi-

ums. This may seem like a do-nothing option, but look closer. If premiums are exceeding your bud-get, then you need to make adjustments to ensure that you can continue to make the scheduled pay-ments or you could risk losing the policy altogeth-er. This may mean cutting other personal expenses, eliminating travel plans or making other changes to your fi nances.

Maintain current pre-miums, but take a cut in death benefi ts. If you fi nd that keeping your policy is creating a fi nancial bur-den, it may be worth re-assessing how much of a benefi t you truly need. Re-ducing the death benefi t amount means less money for your heirs, but it may also help prevent the pol-icy from lapsing and leav-ing your heirs without any benefi t under the policy.

Shop for new cover-age. Like any other type of insurance, you have the right to explore dif-ferent insurers for any number of reasons, in-cluding escalating policy rates. However, you’ll want to make sure that you have a new policy in force before cancel-ling your old policy, just in case you hit any snags

finding a new insurer.Surrender the policy

back to the carrier. De-pending on your fi nancial situation, surrendering your policy back to your insurer may be your best choice. Although the cash payout will be a fraction of the death benefi t that you had established for your heirs, surrendering the policy will eliminate an annual payment that you may not be able to afford.

Explore a life settle-ment. As circumstances change, your insurance priorities may change, too, and selling your life insurance policy can make sense. Selling your life insurance policy to a third-party investor, which is known as a life settlement, may be a more attractive alternative to surrendering your policy back to the carrier. Cov-entry Direct can help you learn whether a life set-tlement might allow you to sell your policy for an immediate cash payment that could be four to eight times greater than what you would receive from your insurance company.

To learn more about your options and whether a life settlement is right for you and your family, visit coventrydirect.com/lifesettlements or call 888-858-9344.

MY-6 • JUNE 22, 2016 • Shopper news

T he cost of college tuition continues to increase, and college graduates are

feeling the burn of that trend when the time comes to begin repaying their student loans.

According to an analysis from higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Cappex, an online resource for students seeking college schol-arships, members of the class of 2016 will graduate with an average student loan debt of just over $37,000. That pro-jection, which was based on federal student loan data and variables including tuition in-fl ation, would be an all-time high. Things are not much better in Canada, where the 2015 Graduating Student Survey by the Canadian University Survey Consor-tium estimated the aver-age member of the class of 2015 graduated with

$27,000 in debt.Though many pro-

spective college stu-dents are begin-

ning to question if college degrees

are worth taking on

the kind of debt

many

Creative ways

■ Apply to fi xed-tuition schoolsIf tuition-free schools are not an op-

tion, students can save money by ap-plying for admittance to fi xed-tuition schools. Such schools guarantee that the tuition students pay in their freshman year will not increase during the ensuing three years. (Note: Tuition may increase if a student needs a fi fth year of schooling.) That can lead to considerable savings, as many schools’ tuitions increase dramati-cally in just four years.

■ Begin at a two-year collegeTwo-year colleges typically charge

considerably lower tuitions than four-year colleges and universities. Students who want to save money may benefi t by enrolling in a two-year college out of high school and getting all of their pre-requisite courses out of the way at a more budget-friendly cost. When considering

this option, make sure credits at the two-year college fully transfer to the four-year school students hope to enroll in after earning their associateÕs degrees.

■ Remain in-state for undergraduate degreesIn-state tuition at public universities re-

mains a considerable bargain over out-of-state tuition or tuition at private universi-ties. Students planning to do postgraduate work might benefi t by enrolling in in-state public universities and saving their money to fi nance their postgraduate educations. Students who hope to attend a public uni-versity in a state that borders their home state may be eligible for a border waiver, which grants them in-state tuition even though they attended high school outside of the state.

Attending college has never been more expensive, but students and their parents can explore various options that can help reduce the cost of college tuition.

students must take on to continue their educations after high school, statistics still indicate that college graduates have far greater lifetime earning potential than men and women who enter the professional arena with only high school diplomas.

So what can prospective college stu-dents do to avoid graduating without tens of thousands of dollars in debt? The answer might not be so diffi cult.

■ Apply to tuition-free schoolsMany students and parents might be

surprised to learn that there are several tuition-free schools. Admittance to

these schools is competitive, but students considering equally

competitive, high-tuition alternatives might make

strong candidates for admission to

t u i t i o n - f r e e schools.

to cut college costs