Jury Fest ahead for craft guild

The Foothills Craft Guild is accepting new member appli-cations from fi ne craft artisans for its second Jury Fest to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, with take-in days Monday and Tues-day, Aug. 10-11.

Info/application: Bob Klas-sen, bobklassen@charter.net, or www.foothillscraftguild.org under the “How to Join” section.

Unhappy weekBetty Bean says Dr. Jim

McIntyre had a most unhappy week, and she lists the reasons why in a column titled, “Mc-Intyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.”

And this week could be even worse.

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By Betty BeanOne Saturday evening in 1958, I

settled down in front of the TV at my grandparents’ house to watch “The Gray Ghost,” which celebrat-ed Col. John Mosby, a dashing Confederate whose raiders rode rings around dimwitted Yankees to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I loved that show.

But Mosby didn’t have time to draw his sword when my grand-dad came barreling out of the kitchen and told me to fi nd some-thing else to watch.

“Why?” I asked. “Because it’s treason,” he said.

“And I despise it.”I didn’t know what treason was,

but I’ve remembered this small incident for more than 50 years,

although it took decades for me to understand what it was really about:

It was the voice of my great-grandfather, challenging me to come fi nd him. He stayed in my ear no matter how many times I saw “Gone With the Wind.”

Here’s what I knew: John Alex-ander Bean was a Union Army vet-eran, but he was no Yankee.

He was a straight-line descen-dant of the long hunters who’d migrated down from Virginia and settled near Jonesborough.

Russell Bean was the fi rst white child born in Tennessee. Russell’s father, Captain Billy Bean, and at least one of his uncles rode 150 miles with John Sevier to whip the British at King’s Mountain and

John Alexander Bean, Private, Sixth

Tennessee Infantry, USA

Learn moreWilliam Rule, Union Army veteran, newspaper reporter and

Parson Brownlow protégé who later founded the Knoxville Jour-nal, wrote the most succinct account of what it was like to make the long walk to Cumberland Gap and described it in great detail here:

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Information about the Sixth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, in-cluding rosters, is here:

tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa6inf.html

A heritage worth remembering: Finding John Bean

later moved on down the valley to Bean Station and Knox County. A rowdy, restless bunch, some of the Beans continued westward (Judge Roy Bean was a distant relation), but others, like John A’s grandfa-ther (also named John and a veter-an of the War of 1812) stayed put.

That distant John Bean’s grave is in the Living Waters Baptist Church graveyard.

I’d heard that John A had de-clined an invitation to join the Confederate Army and walked all the way to Cumberland Gap to join the Union Army and that he’d been taken prisoner, escaped and gotten so hungry that he’d boiled an old boot in hopes of getting it tender enough for dinner, and that when his children expressed dis-gust at the notion of trying to eat a boot, he’d snap: “It used to be a cow, didn’t it?”

I’d heard that his biggest regret was missing the chance to shake hands with Abraham Lincoln. I knew he was a stonecutter by trade and that he’d lost his arm much later in life after he knelt to pray at the funeral of another old soldier, reached down to steady himself on a grave marker and got bitten by a black widow spider. My father

remembered that his grandfather always wore a suit and could tie his shoelaces one-handed.

I didn’t give those stories much thought or credence until the In-ternet age afforded me the means to chase them down. And what I found is that most of them were pretty close to the truth.

John A was 18 when he enlist-ed in the Sixth Tennessee Volun-teer Infantry Brigade on April 18, 1862, in Knoxville, an occupied city seething under the burden of sharply divided loyalties. He stood 5-9, had dark hair and gray eyes

Nolan Wildfi re, Brian Hann, Carol Evans and Mayor

Madeline Rogero get a kick out of the big check

“worth” $20,000 toward a bridge connecting trails

in the Urban Wilderness. Photos by Betsy Pickle

By Betsy PickleThe Urban Wilderness is be-

coming a little less wild.Outdoors and recreational out-

fi tter REI used the outskirts of the 100-acre Wood property as the setting to present $10,000 each to the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club and Legacy Parks Founda-tion last Thursday. The $20,000 will go toward installing a bridge over East Red Bud Road to con-nect the Wood property with Ma-rie Myers Park.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero made “building bridges” jokes as she joined Legacy Parks executive director Carol Evans and AMBC vice president Brian Hann for the presentation by Noah Wildfi re, outdoor programs and outreach coordinator for REI. The enthusiastic crowd included AMBC members, Legacy Parks

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By Anne HartMany of their stories were

heartbreaking. And in the telling, occasionally a voice would break and tears would come and there would be a pause before the speak-er could begin again.

And often, just when you thought your heart had truly shat-tered, another person would stand and begin his story with a bit of humor and your heart would start to mend.

Some of the guests arrived in wheel chairs, others on walkers, still others surprisingly spry con-sidering their age.

A few needed help in standing to take the microphone from the master of ceremonies, local TV personality Gary Loe, who moved gently through the crowd of sev-

eral hundred that packed Buddy’s Banquet Hall, giving everyone who wanted to speak the opportu-nity to do so.

As Loe said, “The veterans are the keynote speakers today.”

The occasion marked the 65th anniversary of the invasion of South Korea by North Korea on June 25, 1950 – a war that the United States quickly entered – and the story tellers included both the American soldiers who fought in that war and natives of South Korea who now make Knoxville their home.

The annual Korean War vet-erans reunion was started a few years back by former Knoxville City Council member Rex Davis, himself a veteran of that war, who had only three other veterans at his

home for that fi rst reunion, where war experiences were shared. The reunion has grown dramatically since then, and it’s no wonder why.

These old soldiers are the real thing. The stories they tell are true. They aren’t make believe tales from a Hollywood movie or a made-for-television series. These men lived their stories.

They were young men when they went to war – many just teen-agers. Some volunteered, others were drafted, but the one thing they have in common is pride – that they fought and saved South Korea from a horrible fate and then came safely home.

And they remember the friends they fought alongside who didn’t return –

some 54,000 in all. Another

Korean War veterans tell their stories103,000 were wounded, 8,000 are still listed as missing in action and 4,000 were held as prisoners of war until the war ended.

Davis told the group at the start of the event, “This is a time for re-membering the past and celebrat-ing the present,” and then added with his huge trademark grin, “Seeing this big crowd puts a smile on my face that an undertaker couldn’t take off.”

And then the stories began.Many of the veterans men-

tioned the terrible cold they en-dured while fi ghting – tempera-tures 20, 30 and 40 degrees below zero.

One veteran told of being as-signed to pick up the bodies of

Red Gate RodeoThe annual Red Gate Fes-

tival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville.

Carnival starts at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under.

Info: www.redgaterodeo.com or 992-3303.

Jazz for JoyTaber Gable is the fi rst Joy

of Music School student to at-tend Juilliard.

And he’s coming back for a concert Thursday, July 9, and bringing a jazz quartet along.

He wants everyone to sup-port the school that provided him his foundation, momen-tum and opportunity so that more and more children can take part and see their lives changed through the art and discipline of music.

➤ Read Carol Shane on page 7

July 4 eventsCheck out the weekend’s

events on the weekender cal-endar.

All the details are inside this week’s paper.

➤ See page 7

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“I’ve ridden a camel in Morocco, I’ve rap-pelled in Guam, and I’ve ridden a train in Ja-pan,” Chris Bender says as she sits peacefully in a Sevierville coffee shop.

Bender, 62, has had a lifetime of adven-tures, but nothing could have prepared her for the ultimate adventure of � ghting to live. Bender has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), cancer and lupus.

The most life-altering battles came with reinforcement from Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center (TCSC) and oncologist Miche-lene Liebman, MD. Lingering over a vanilla frappuccino, Bender recounts the story of how her knowledge of MS helped catch can-cer in time.

Having temporarily lost her eyesight be-cause of MS in the past, Bender didn’t take it lightly when she suffered intense pain in her right eye while she was at work one night in June of 2012. “I had a really bad headache, and my eye was throbbing,” Bender recalls.

“Most people would have ignored it, but because of my background with MS, the very next morning I called my eye doctor,” Bender says.

The eye doctor referred her to a specialist in Knoxville who performed a variety of tests just two days later. Bender was told there was a protrusion on the back of her right eye, that it was a sign she had cancer somewhere in her body and that she needed to see an on-cologist right away.

Bender’s doctor in Sevierville referred her to Thompson Cancer Survival Center and Li-ebman. Liebman sees patients at TCSC Sevi-er on a regular basis, in addition to working at TCSC Downtown.

Liebman ordered scans to be performed at LeConte Medical Center and brought Bender into the of� ce soon after. “When I walked in she said, ‘We know you have cancer, we just don’t know what kind,’ ” Bender says.

Liebman began to put the call out for oth-er doctors to see Bender and search for the cause. A biopsy on a lung lesion revealed that Bender had stage 4 melanoma.

“That was kind of hard for me to under-stand,” Bender confesses, “but at that point it had gone to my lungs, it had gone to my

brain and it was on my eye.”There had been no tell-tale moles or mys-

terious patches on her skin. Bender learned melanoma can arise in places that aren’t so obvious as sun-exposed skin.

Bender says Liebman had made it clear that � ghting the cancer would be warfare. It proved to be true, and Liebman was ready to do battle.

She immediately had Bender set up an appointment for brachytherapy on the af-fected eye. Liebman set her sights on the brain tumors next.

A � rst MRI had shown three tumors. A new MRI revealed a total of eight. “That’s how fast it was growing,” Bender says.

“We chose to use the Gamma Knife for targeted radiation to the lesions,” says Lieb-man. The Gamma Knife at Fort Sanders Re-gional delivers 192 � nely focused beams of gamma radiation to small targets inside the brain.

The beams converge at a point to treat the affected tissue, while minimizing the dam-age to healthy brain tissue. “This spares the patient some of the side effects of radiation,

which may include memory loss and dif� -culty concentrating,” Liebman says.

Next, Liebman attacked the three lesions on Bender’s lungs. Chemotherapy was start-ed within two weeks of Bender’s � rst GammaKnife procedure.

Liebman recommended the relatively new cancer drug Yervoy (Ipilimumab), andit worked. The cancer stopped spreading andBender was winning the war.

Then just when it seemed like the worst was over, Bender was diagnosed with lu-pus. Bender consulted with Liebman andtogether they determined therapy for thelupus could wait. The best course of actionwould be to keep focusing solely on cancertreatment.

Bender’s diagnosis today is “no evidence of cancer.” She hasn’t required continuingchemotherapy, which is somewhat astound-ing for a stage 4 melanoma patient.

Grateful to be alive, Bender gives credit to God and her oncologist. “If I had gone tosome other doctor somewhere else, I don’tknow that the outcome would have been thesame,” Bender says.

This Sevier County cancer survivor prais-es Liebman for being direct, honest, proac-tive and because, in Bender’s words, “shedoesn’t treat me like I’m just another medi-cal record in her hand.”

Bender is also grateful to her “church family” and her “work family,” who con-stantly offered support. This was especiallyimportant to her since she has no family inEast Tennessee.

Bender didn’t escape this war without some battle scars, she’s lost vision in herright eye, and she remains fully aware thatcancer could come back with a vengeance atany time. That simply motivates her to makethe most of life.

“Every day is special,” Bender says. “Ev-ery day is paradise.”

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Michelene Liebman, MD, says recent years have brought rapid advancements in melano-

ma treatment. Patients who might not have had hope when they were diagnosed a few years ago now have a � ghting chance. Chris Bend-er is one of them.

“The disease-free survival we have obtained with Chris-tine is almost unprecedented except in some clinical trials for stage 4 melanoma,” Li-

ebman says. Yervoy was administered only at initial diagnosis with complete response. “That means she has not had recurrent dis-ease needing frequent chemotherapy.”

Staging is the extent of involvement of can-cer throughout the body, and the stage of the disease directs the treatment recommenda-tions. “Most cases of malignant melanoma are diagnosed at an earlier stage, when surgical excision can be curative,” Liebman explains.

“However, a few patients have metastatic disease at presentation, which means the

cancer has spread to other areas in the body.” Some patients develop metastases after their initial de� nitive treatment.

Bender received immunotheraphy, which uses new drugs like Yervoy (Ipilimumab) to enhance the body’s ability to kill cancer cells by increasing the killing power of the white blood cells.

For some patients, targeted therapies which inhibit cell proliferation are preferred. “Some melanomas have a particular gene mu-tation,” Liebman says. “When targeted gene inhibition therapy is used, the result is the killing of the cancer tumor cells.”

“Stage 4 melanoma carries a poor progno-sis with few months survival if not treated,” Liebman says. “Increased survival by months to years is quite gratifying and a great mile-stone in the treatment of this disease.”

Since her initial treatment in 2012, many more immunotherapy drugs have become available for use in metastatic melanoma. Liebman says these treatments do have side effects, but in general are not as toxic as chemotherapy

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Finding John Bean From page 1

and was offi cially mustered in and assigned to Compa-ny D, which was composed entirely of Knox Countians and led by Captain Marcus Bearden, on April 23, in Boston, Ky., near Louisville. This means he enlisted, covered some 70 miles of rough, enemy-occupied ter-rain on foot from the family farm in Ebenezer to reach Cumberland Gap and was conveyed to Boston in fi ve days’ time.

Military records say he’d been “left sick in hospital, Sept. 17, 1862,” and “Had been reported a deserter but had been captured by the Rebels and not deserted.” The next John A sighting was a memorandum from Prisoner of War records placing him back with the U.S. Army at Camp Lew Wallace in Ohio on Oct. 31.

Here’s the surprise: There were a bunch of Beans in Company D. John A’s father, Henry, enlisted on the same day as John A, as did John A’s uncle, Wil-liam Camp Bean.

Presumably, they all walked to Kentucky togeth-er. A year later, Henry went home and his son George signed up in his place. Wil-

liam Camp Bean would die in Nashville, probably of cholera, in 1863. Captain Bearden survived being shot near Marietta, Ga., af-ter the Sixth Infantry joined Gen. William T. Sherman at the Battle of Atlanta, which means that Tennessee boys helped burn down Tara, so to speak, before most of them were detached and returned to Nashville while Sherman continued his march to the sea.

On March 30, 1865, the Sixth Tennessee received this offi cial commendation: “Many of these brave men have already served beyond the term of their enlistment, and their services are grate-fully appreciated. We can but bid them a kind farewell with feelings of gratitude and deep solicitude for their future welfare. May they re-turn in safety to their homes to enjoy the liberties of the Government they have so nobly defended.”

A footnote says the Tennesseans “moved on foot and otherwise nearly 10,000 miles.”

John A and George Bean were mustered out on April 24, 1865, nine days after Lincoln was murdered by a

Rebel sympathizer.According to a cryptic

but credible family Bible ac-count, Henry Bean’s sister, Lydia Bean Duncan (John A’s aunt), became a widow when her husband, a Con-federate sympathizer, was “shot by a Bean” in 1865. Lydia, also according to Duncan family records, became the fi rst – and probably the oldest – Knox County woman to register to vote after the passage of the 19th Amendment. She was said to have walked to town to register but was later un-able to cast her vote due to failing health.

So there it is. John A. Bean turned 18 in an occu-pied city. He knew he could have been imprisoned or hanged if he’d been caught on that long walk to Ken-tucky but did it anyway, as did many East Tennessee men.

He lived to become the father of nine, a pillar of Knoxville’s First Methodist Church, a staunch Repub-lican (duh) and an old man whose only recorded regret was that he never got to shake hands with Lincoln.

And that’s a heritage worth remembering.

Korean War veterans From page 1

American soldiers from the battlefi eld – bodies that the enemy had wired to explode when moved.

Dick Whitson, who fought at Pork Chop Hill, proposed a toast “to those guys who didn’t get to grow up and be old men.”

Jim Coffi n said his last view of Korea was “horizon-tal.” He was hit by a grenade while on a stretcher being carried to a helicopter.

But it wasn’t all gloom and doom.

Former legislator Joe Burchfi eld said to much laughter that “being in the war was about as much fun as being in the state Legis-lature.”

The appreciation voiced by the native Koreans in the

audience was overwhelming.Dr. Kenneth Kim, presi-

dent of New Hope Mission, expressed the sentiments of many when he told the vet-erans,

“Because of your sacri-fi ce, our two countries are now the closest of allies and South Korea is now a highly industrialized nation. You were there for our country – fi ghting not for your coun-try but for ours. We will never forget.

“Many Koreans are liv-ing here now and helping to make this country great. Thank you for protecting our country and defending our way of life. We cannot thank you enough for pro-tecting the freedoms we all hold so dear.”

Master of ceremonies Gary Loe visits with Korea natives Young

Ae-Kim, president of the Knoxville Area Korean American Soci-

ety and owner of the Oriental Supermarket on Sutherland Av-

enue, and Soo Cha, an internationally known artist who owns

Gallery Provence in The Orangery.

Dr. Tom Kim (standing) spends time with the family of the late Jake Huff aker. Seated are Huf-

faker’s daughter, Vickie Walter; his wife, Betty Huff aker; and another daughter, Debbie Stretcher.

Mr. Huff aker had been a patient of Dr. Kim, who asked the family if they would allow him to wear

the uniform Huff aker had worn in Korea to this year’s reunion. Betty Huff aker said her husband

“didn’t miss any of these reunions for many years.”

Diva Ride From page 1

supporters, about a dozen REI staffers and a coterie of South Knoxvillians.

This is the second “big check” AMBC has received in the past month. The club won $100,000 to build a zero gravity trail in the Ur-ban Wilderness in a nation-wide contest held by Bell Helmets. Wildfi re said the Bell grant had no impact on REI’s decision to give AMBC $10,000.

“Regardless of whether AMBC won that Bell Built grant, we would support them either way,” said Wild-fi re. “They are just wonder-ful stewards of our outdoor recreation community and wonderful partners to work with here in Knoxville.”

REI also granted $10,000 each to the two groups last year. The company had started looking around for community partners even before opening the store on Papermill Road in July 2014.

“Because of that wonder-ful relationship that we had with them, we wanted to continue it into 2015, espe-cially knowing that they are wonderful change agents here in the community, and they do wonderful things for the outdoor recreation community,” Wildfi re said.

Evans and Hann said the REI money would be com-bined with other donations to the two groups to cover the approximately $60,000 cost of the bridge.

“We had had a gift from a private donor that was there waiting on the right project,” said Evans, who noted that Legacy Parks has a list of 12 projects awaiting funding all the time. “It was like, ‘Wow, this is the right project.’

“This one just made sense with REI, and it made sense for that donor.”

Evans credits Hann with fi nding a manufacturer who makes pre-constructed

bridge pieces that can be dropped into sites.

“Basically, you just have to build the footers, and this piece drops in, so it was more affordable,” she said.

Evans said there is still much trail work to be done to access the bridge on each side, but the project should be complete sometime in September.

Rogero stressed the eco-nomic benefi ts of improving the Urban Wilderness. Ev-ans and company noted that having the bridge connec-tion should encourage more people to use the trails and parks in South Knoxville, and its proximity to South-Doyle Middle School should benefi t young people by get-ting them to be more active.

“Our topography is a challenge,” said Evans. “The fewer road crossings we have to have, the better. We just like to be safe.”

The Appalachian Moun-tain Bike Club’s June meet-ing was a cross between a celebration and a rally.

Obviously, the club had good reason to cheer. Its proposal for a zero-gravity trail in the Urban Wilder-ness garnered the most votes – more than 26,000 – in a nationwide contest sponsored by Bell Helmets that wrapped up in early June.

Vice president Brian Hann, fi lling in for club president Matthew Kellogg, pointed out that the club has 240 members, which means support from the commu-nity and fans of the Urban Wilderness made all the dif-

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AMBC celebrates, looks forward

ference in the voting.“It takes a huge commu-

nity effort to get something like that, and we killed it,” he said.

AMBC, Bell and the In-ternational Mountain Bi-cycling Association (which facilitates the grant) are still discussing details on when construction of the trail will begin. It will be ei-

ther this fall or next spring, mostly depending on the weather.

While AMBC members would like to see a “big check” (like the one from REI; see page 1), Hann says “no money actually changes hands. They come in and do the work.”

A previous grant allowed AMBC to come up with the design for the black dia-mond trail.

Hann reported that the AMBC’s annual Big South Fork weekend was also a “huge success,” with 64 people attending to both ride and work on about nine Park Service projects.

He encouraged others to

consider doing “Bikearoo” next year – riding to Bonn-aroo. He and three other AMBCers made the trek this year and had a great time.

Julie Ferrara has started a Facebook group for be-ginning mountain bikers to connect and plan outings. At www.facebook.com/groups/KnoxvilleMtBiking-NoDrop, bicyclists who are just getting started can fi nd out about rides on which they won’t feel intimidated by riding with more ad-vanced cyclists.

Those interested can request to join the closed group and fi nd out about upcoming rides and ask questions.

The rally part of the meeting at Central Flats ’N Taps came toward the end and involved another Facebook group supported by AMBC, called “Elea-nor rides The Divide.” It provides updates on Elea-nor McDonough’s journey on the grueling 2015 Tour Divide, which runs from Banff, Alberta, Canada, to Antelope Wells, N.M.

McDonough is riding as a fundraiser for the Musella Foundation – which sup-ports brain cancer patients and research into the dis-ease – in honor of her older brother, who has survived brain cancer for 11 years. Info: https://virtualtrials.com/R ide _The _Div ide.cfm.

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Football coaches, for the most part, are creatures of habit. They are inclined to do what they always have done.

Down and distance are dictatorial. Defensive align-ments are predictable. Play selection for third-and-one is right there in the scouting report, same as last week and last season.

Coaches will tell you that player experience is critical. The late, great Robert R. Neyland said we could ex-pect one loss for each rookie in the starting lineup. Back then, he was talking about sophomores. Today’s rook-ies are freshmen.

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Tennessee might do something diff erent

Marvin West

likely to make dumb mis-takes. They are far less like-ly to panic in a crisis, even when overmatched.

Coaches count on consis-tency and dependability. It helps them sleep.

Great emphasis is thus placed on returning regu-lars. There is merit to this maxim if those starters were winners, not so much if all they have to show for their efforts are battle scars.

Now and then coaches do the unexpected, set aside the signifi cance of experi-ence or just dare to be dif-ferent, as was Butch Jones last year in choosing talent over letters. Freshman tail-back Jalen Hurd over senior tailback Marlin Lane was a convincing example.

Derek Barnett was the fi rst freshman in UT history to start at defensive end. You know how that turned out. He led in tackles for loss against SEC foes. He had three sacks against Ole Miss and South Carolina. Inexperience didn’t seem to hold him back.

Freshman Jashon Rob-ertson switched from de-fensive tackle in August to right offensive guard and started all 13 games.

Tight end Ethan Wolf did pretty well. Aaron Medley kicked 20 of 26 fi eld goals, including one in the clutch against the Gamecocks. He hit 42 extra points and might have made more if Tennessee had scored more touchdowns.

Defensive backs Todd Kelly Jr. and Emmanuel Moseley looked like they be-longed.

Twelve true freshmen started games, including a school-record seven against Missouri. Some started be-cause of talent. Some start-ed because of need.

Freshmen of 2015 may actually have more ability than the previous group, but there are no automatic starters. One or two or three may shove estab-

lished players aside and take their jobs. The coach relishes the thought of competition.

“We’re going to rely on two true freshman defen-sive tackles to really play a big part in this year’s out-come of many games, so we have to get them ready to go,” Jones said.

He was talking about four- or fi ve-star Kahlil McKenzie (6-3 and down to 330) and four-star Shy Tut-tle (6-3 and 313, a pleasant development in spring prac-tice). They do not resemble spectators.

Drew Richmond, 6-3 and 305, has announced his in-tentions.

“My expectation is for me to start.”

The third-ranked of-fensive tackle in all of high school football does not lack confi dence. He says he can be ready for Day One, Sept.

6, Bowling Green, Tita ns’ place in Nashville. Be there!

“I feel like I am pretty good.”

Preston Williams is a possible starter for later in the season. The day he of-fi cially recovers from knee repairs, he may be the Vols’ best pass receiver. He comes with fi ve recruiting stars and lofty goals.

“I’m going in trying to break records,” he said.

For the already record, Butch Jones is still follow-ing the original blueprint, brick by brick toward the restoration of Tennessee excellence. He hasn’t said it, but he has demonstrated his choice of ability over experi-ence.

There may be other sub-tle changes. Think Mike DeBord, ability and experi-ence, lots of experience.Marvin West invites reader comments.

His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Last Monday, Knox County Commission ver-bally spanked schools su-perintendent James Mc-Intyre before voting 9-1 not to help him out of a potential legal jam by ret-roactively approving a grant he’d accepted last fall without going through the proper legal and procedural channels.

McIntyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

On Tuesday morning, the news broke that the previously anonymous “un-indicted co-conspirator” mentioned in the tax fraud indictment of state Rep. Joe Armstrong is McIntyre ally and former school board

chair Sam Anderson.Later Tuesday, McIntyre

announced that Ander-son had resigned from a $42,000-a-year, 16-hour-per-week position as an “advisor” to Knox County Schools that was not pub-licly advertised before An-derson’s hiring.

On Wednesday, it be-came public knowledge that the school bus driver who caused last December’s deadly accident that killed two children and a teacher’s aide was not only text mes-saging at the time of the crash, but also was carrying on an extended conversa-tion with a prostitute, and that parents had been com-plaining to Knox County Schools for more than a year about this driver’s disdain for safety.

On Thursday afternoon, reports surfaced that a group of citizens is shopping

for a lawyer to help them fi le an ouster suit against Mc-

Intyre.All in all,

it was not a good week to be super-intendent.

As seri-ous as Mc-I n t y r e ’ s other em-b a r r a s s -

ments are, the brewing ouster suit is likely connect-ed to the “matching” grant from The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems that McIntyre ac-cepted without getting school board and County Commission approval, as required by law.

Under the terms of the grant, TBC put up $29,700, which Knox County Schools “matched” with $60,300 for salary and another $30,000 for benefi ts to bring Broad

resident Christy Hendler on board as director of plan-ning and improvement. The Broad Center requires its residents be paid at least $90,000 annually.

Hendler’s prior profes-sional experience was with Procter & Gamble, and she has an MBA from Xavier University. No educational background is listed on her Broad Center profi le. She is the fourth Broad resident to have worked for Knox County during the tenure of McIntyre, who is an alum of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy. The Broad Cen-ter is considered a leader in corporate education reform. Its annual report describes the residency program like this:

“Since 2003, the program has recruited and placed early-career executives with private and civic sector experience and advanced

Jim McIntyre

Betty Bean

degrees into two-year, full-time paid positions in ur-ban school districts, state and federal departments of education and top charter management organizations. More than 250 Broad Resi-dents have been placed in 39 school districts, 30 pub-lic charter school manage-ment organizations, seven state departments of edu-cation and the U.S. Depart-ment of Education.”

Because the grant re-quired the county to pony up funds, McIntyre is in legal jeopardy because he failed to secure up-front ap-proval from both the school board and County Commis-sion. Instead, he unilater-ally accepted the grant and got school board approval after the fact. He asked County Commission to do the same but ran into trou-ble when former KCS teach-ers Rob Taylor and Jennifer

Owen appeared at the June commission meeting and urged the commission not to approve the grant.

Taylor accused McIntyre of dodging the school board because the appointment came at a time when he did not enjoy friendly majority.

Owen said McIntyre needs to go:

“This illegal act re-mained hidden for an entire year, the length of the grant. Many such contracts have been handled correctly, and it seems clear that this was not failure to understandthe law. This was willingly and knowingly done, and fi ve Board of Education members chose to become complicit.”

First District Commis-sioner Sam McKenzie was the only yes vote. AmyBroyles was absent.Betty Bean is a columnist for Shopper-

News. Reach her at bbeanster@aol.com.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ School board members

should check the time cards

of former board chair Sam An-

derson, who claimed to have

worked 16 hours per week for

a $42,000 salary.

■ And while they’re at it, board members should fi nd

out why parent complaints

about the driving habits of

the late James Davenport

were not taken seriously.

■ And fi nally, they should start

looking for a new superin-

tendent.

■ Foster Arnett shuffl ed up

and issued a marriage license

to a same-sex couple only af-

ter the state attorney general

told him he must.

■ Arnett has been working

from suburban branches of

the County Clerk’s offi ce since

suing the Public Building

Authority (and Knox County)

over mold and “unsafe”

working conditions in the

courthouse.

■ Notice how many of the folks

who say marriage should be

between one man and one

woman are working on their

third or fourth?

■ Tim Burchett’s response to

the Supreme Court’s ruling

was, “We will enforce the law.”

That was similar to Gov. Bill

Haslam’s response.

■ Charme Knight Allen, Knox

County’s little-known attor-

ney general, handled criticism

well on TV Sunday.

■ Mike Lowe’s less-than-a-year

sentence was not enough?

asked Stephanie Beecken.

■ Best we could do, said Allen,

pointing out co-defendant

Delbert Morgan’s conviction

led to a 30-day sentence by

the judge. We asked for 10

years and Morgan’s case had

stronger proof than Lowe’s,

she said.

■ Lowe’s plea bargain and

sentence to the county’s

detention facility allows her

offi ce to retain control of him

and Morgan as she seeks res-

titution of some $593,000.

■ “I can’t get more than they

took,” she said. But she

looked like she wants to try.

■ Arthur Seymour Jr. is accus-

tomed to a friendly reception

at Knox County Commission

and Knoxville City Council. He

got less than that last Thurs-

day at the town of Farragut.

■ Seymour didn’t disclose his

client. In fact, he didn’t talk

at all after a standing-room-

only crowd of angry residents

told the Board of Mayor and

Aldermen that the developer

had no right to speak after

withdrawing an agenda item.

■ Bob Markli, an alderman,

said, “Anytime someone

wants to spend $37 million

in our town, we should hear

them.”

■ The apartment applicant will

return. So will the residents.

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THROUGH AUG. 9New Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit,

the Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge. Info: 482-1441.

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

ries” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go to the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1Fundraiser for Feral Feline Friends and Pit

Bull Rescue, 4 p.m., Bearden Beer Market, 4524 Old Kingston Pike. Bring food donation for dogs or cats to enter drawing to win Yazoo dog house. Also features giveaways and Forks on the River Food Truck. Info: www.etnpitbullrescue.org or www.feralfelinefriends.org.

July 4th Craft Party, 3 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Koi Streamer Craft, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

THURSDAY, JULY 2Knoxville Writers’ Guild open mic night, 7

p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. A $2 donation is requested at the door. Open to the public but must be a member to read your work. Info: www.KnoxvilleWritersGuild.org.

“Mindfulness in Everyday Life With the Alexander Technique,” 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $30. Preregistration required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 3Pilot Fireball Moonlite Classic 5K and Fire-

cracker Kids Mile, 9 p.m. Kids Mile begins 8 p.m. New route through UT campus, along the river and by the UT Gardens. Info/registration: www.ktc.org; Bo Saulsbury, bosaulsbury@gmail.com.

Public reception for “Organic and Mechanic” exhibit by Susan V. Adams and Barb Johnson, 5-9 p.m., balcony gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit on display July 3-31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

Reception for new photo exhibit “Cuba: Transi-tion, Dreams, and Transformation” by Maria B. Clark, Ph.D., Astrid Galindo and Rosa Mar, 5-9 p.m., Suite 112, Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Free and open to the public. Exhibit presented by HoLa Hora Latina; on display through end of July. Info: casahola@holafestival.org or 335-3358.

SATURDAY, JULY 4Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West

Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Premiere of “200 Years of Volunteers,” 7 p.m., East Tennessee PBS. Documentary highlights the events, men and women that earned the state its nickname from the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain to the modern battlefi elds of today. Info:

www.easttennesseepbs.org.Young-Williams Animal Center adoption

special, noon-4 p.m., adoption fees for cats and dogs 4 years and older will be just $4. Available at Young-Williams Animal Center, 3201 Division St., and the Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike. Info: www.young-williams.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 5The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee

meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program by Fay Camp-bell: demonstration of super summer sweet potato salad. Potluck supper follows. Cost: $4. Info: bobgrimac@ gmail.com or 546-5643.

MONDAY, JULY 6Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Haz-

ari, 10:30 a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663.

Mighty Musical Monday with O’Connor Senior Singers, noon, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Lunch of sandwich, chips and a dessert, $5, in the lobby while supplies last. Program is free. Info: 684-1200.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 6-10Etiquette classes, 4-5:15 p.m., Imagination Forest,

7613 Blueberry Road. Hosted by the Cardinal School of Etiquette for ages 6-12. Cost: $125. Info/registration: 312-2371 or alwhite07@comcast.net.

TUESDAY, JULY 7Drum-Making Workshop, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., East

Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. For teens and adults with and without disabilities. Info: Lorrie or Shaynie, 219-0130.

Super Hero Power!, 6:30 p.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Info: 573-0436.

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The controversy over re-moving the name Lady Vols from most teams (except women’s basketball) con-tinues. It is not going away anytime soon given the let-ter state Rep. Roger Kane wrote (co-signed by 44 other lawmakers) and sent to the UT Board of Trustees.

Kane secured the sig-natures of 45 of the 132 members of the General Assembly without trying. He simply passed the letter around and got a strong re-action. Kane is a solid, con-servative lawmaker from northwest Knox County. He defeated longtime politi-cal powerhouse Sheriff Tim Hutchinson to win the GOP primary and became known as a political giant-killer. Prior to this, he was virtu-ally unknown.

In Nashville, he is re-garded as thoughtful and informed. He has a keen interest in this subject with his daughter having been active in UT sports.

His “Save the Lady Vols” letter got the backing of state Sens. Richard Briggs and Becky Duncan Massey plus Reps. Martin Daniel, Eddie Smith, Bill Dunn and Kane – a majority of the delegation. This cannot be shunted to the sidelines.

What was anyone think-ing when Dave Hart autho-rized and advocated this change, which the campus leadership and system pres-ident then endorsed? Cer-

UT controvers y won’t end soonVictorAshe

tainly not the merits or de-merits of the name change.

Were they not aware of the public relations war this would trigger?

Why did the rollout not have a game plan to sell it to UT alumni and fans across the state?

Did they honestly think 132 state legislators would remain silent when their constituents were calling, emailing, writing letters to the editor and marching? Not for a minute.

Is this name change a fi ght worth fi ghting consid-ering all the other issues the university faces annually?

The leadership is now spending time on this in-stead of funding and man-agement. How vital to UT’s success is this name change?

Does UT’s leadership not realize that this may now be headed to the fl oor of the General Assembly, where legislation could well be in-troduced in 2016 to reverse the name change?

Do the UT leadership and board want to do battle in Nashville in January on this? Are they not aware the Senate can start holding

confi rmation hearings on UT Trustees to get them to listen more carefully to the Lady Vols supporters?

The decision of the UT Board of Trustees not to hear comments on this mat-ter at last week’s Knoxville meetings handed Roger Kane a perfect and under-standable reason to take it to the Legislature. He can now say the entire UT lead-ership has declined to give 45 lawmakers and thou-sands of citizens a day in a public setting to express their views.

UT is relying on legal-isms to avoid public discus-sions. Isn’t a college campus all about hearing different points of view?

Yes, but apparently not when it comes to the Lady Vols name.

UT will ultimately have to make some concessions here. The university may have to reverse course. It cannot stiff the General As-sembly. The governor can-not save it on this issue.

Roger Kane is a law-maker to be taken seriously, and UT will hear more from him. Trustees need to listen to the people in a public set-ting or see a bill passed that they will dislike.

Margie Nichols, a savvy media person, is currently on staff. She knows this region well and could have predicted what has hap-pened. My guess is no one included her as they made

this decision. Now that it has happened, it is not so clear who can get UT out of this controversy.

■ The Rotary Club of Knoxville will host a cen-tennial reception 6-8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31 at the East Tennessee Historical Soci-ety for political and com-munity leaders.

■ Jeff Chapman com-pletes 25 years this week as director of the McClung Museum on the UT campus, which he has led to a level of excellence only dreamed of a few years ago. If you have not visited the museum re-cently you should. It is a special place in Knoxville.

■ City Council mem-ber Marshall Stair has raised $36,000 off a fund-raising letter for his re-election. This is impressive and exceeds the norm for a council candidate. Mayoral candidates have trouble matching that total. All in-cumbents will win and con-tinue the tradition of eight-year terms for mayors and council members since term limits were imposed.

■ Bill Lyons, a member of the Tennessee Historical Commission, says he will vote to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue from the state Capitol if it comes to the commission. Knoxvil-lian Larry Martin chairs the State Capitol Commission, which oversees statutes in the Capitol. He is commis-sioner of fi nance.

Wendy Smith

Open-streets program could foster

bike-friendlinessIt would still be a stretch

to call Knoxville bike-friendly, but there are in-dications that we’re on the right path.

A new bicycle facilities plan maps out needed up-grades to the city’s bicycling infrastructure, and one of the top projects – sidewalks, crosswalks and 800 feet of a 6-foot shoulder on the south side of Kingston Pike at Golfclub Road – has been funded with a $946,000 grant from TDOT.

Over 26,000 votes were cast for an Appalachian Mountain Bike Club plan for a black diamond bike trail in Knoxville’s Urban Wil-derness, netting the group a $100,000 grant in a nation-wide contest sponsored by Bell Helmets.

The next big news may be an event that will al-low the community to hit the streets on bikes, trikes, scooters and feet without the hindrance of cars for a few hours.

The idea of closing city streets to vehicles for a set period of time is new to Knoxville, but the concept has been around for a long time. According to www.openstreetsproject.org, Se-attle Bicycle Sundays began in 1965 with a car-free zone connecting three parks, and the initiative inspired simi-lar events in New York City and San Francisco that are still going on today.

Another source of inspi-ration is Ciclovia, an event that originated in Bogotá, Colombia, in the 1970s. To-day, more than a million people recreate, primarily on bicycle, on 120 kilome-ters of roadway for seven hours each Sunday.

The idea behind Ciclovia and open-streets initiatives is the same. It’s about giving everyone in the community the opportunity to get out and get moving. It’s not a street fair, like the Rossini Festival, or a race, like the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon. It’s fun, free, in-clusive fi tness.

It’s also a way to get the community used to seeing bicycles on the road, which is the fi rst step toward bicy-cle-friendliness.

City of Knoxville Director of Engineering Jim Hager-man says that a committee is discussing the possibility of an open-streets event and that the administration is supportive. While some cit-ies have weekly or monthly events, Knoxville would likely start with a half-day event that could become an-nual.

One challenge would be choosing which streets to close. Open streets typically feature a signature urban street, he says, so Gay Street is an obvious candidate. But sections of Gay Street will be closed over the next six months, making it a poor choice for a fall event.

The route should be small enough for the streets to be full of people, which creates interest.

Gil Penalosa, former commissioner of parks, sport and recreation for the city of Bogotá, talked about Ciclovia at the Ten-nessee Bike Summit held in Knoxville in April. He’s the founder of 8 80 Cities, a Canadian nonprofi t that promotes walking and bik-ing in public spaces.

Knox County commu-nications director Michael Grider liked what he heard. He began commuting via bicycle last year, and he thinks a local event would give more people the oppor-tunity to enjoy cycling.

It’s an attractive event because it requires no (new) infrastructure, he says.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how it evolves.” Reach Wendy Smith at ShopperWendy@wowway.com.

Major legislation spon-sored by state Sen. B e c k y Massey to help victims of stran-gulation, a crime often involved in d o m e s t i c violence, is

among 171 new laws set to take effect today (July 1).

The new law redefi nes strangulation to include: “intentionally or knowingly impeding normal breathing or circulation of the blood by applying pressure to the throat or neck or by block-ing the nose and mouth of another person, regardless

of whether that conduct re-sults in any visible injury or whether the person has any intent to kill or protractedly injure the victim.”

Massey explains: “Cur-rently the defi nition of strangulation requires the act must be ‘intentional,’ which is a higher standard of proof. By adding ‘know-ingly’ it puts the defi nition of strangulation more in line with similar criminal acts to protect victims of domestic violence.

“Present law also requires a visible injury in cases of strangulation. In some cases, visible injury cannot be seen unless the victim dies and an autopsy is performed and does not account for cases in

which the victim escaped.”Massey said that stran-

gulation victims are seven times more likely to become victims of homicide and that 50 percent of all domestic violence homicide victims are strangled at least once before they are murdered.

Massey also sponsored two other bills set for enact-ment today. Both protect children including a new law that adds to the residen-tial and work restrictions for sexual offenders to pro-hibit them from being alone with a minor in addition to being prohibited from re-siding with a minor.

The other new law re-quires parents whose chil-dren have been removed

from their care due to drug abuse to demonstrate a com-mitment to responsible par-enting before they can re-gain custody.

Before the child can be re-turned, the parent must not be the subject of a criminal investigation for at least 90 days, resolve any former and pending investigations by child protective services to the satisfaction of the court, and pass two consecutive drug screens.

“I am very pleased that these new laws are set for enactment and believe they will make a difference in protecting some of our state’s most vulnerable vic-tims from being harmed,” Massey said.

Massey passes tough-on-crime laws

Sen. Massey

6 • JULY 1, 2015 • Shopper news interns

By Charlie HamiltonHave you ever shopped

at one of the local KARM Thrift Stores? Did you know that a portion of your pur-chase went toward aiding the Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries shelter for the homeless?

Yes, KARM is a nonprofi t organization that started in 1960 and has been helping our community’s homeless for 55 years. KARM houses over 400 men, women and children each night, and serves nearly 1,000 meals every day for people in need.

KARM has many differ-

ent programs to help home-less people get back on their feet and return to normal life. Around 25-30 percent of the homeless population has some type of mental illness, and close to 12-15 percent are some of our country’s veterans. All over this coun-try mental health intuitions have been closing their doors to these people, and care for veterans has deteriorated.

If all of the community will come together we can all end homeless in our community. Thank you, Su-san Renfro, for our tour of this great organization.

Knox Area Rescue Ministries

director of marketing and

communications Sue Renfro

provides a tour for the Shop-

per interns. Photo by Amanda Mc-Donald

A reminder of God’s grace adorns the wall over a bed in KARM’s

men’s facility. Photo by Maddie Ogle

The KARM women’s facility holds just over 100 beds, providing

a safe resting place each night. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Ministry of

healing at KARMBy Shannon Carey

Shopper-News interns paid another visit to Knox-ville Area Rescue Ministries this year, and Sue Renfro was once again our guide.

From the bustling kitch-en to the uplifting Launch-point and Bridge transition-al programs, interns got an eye-opening view of what it means to be homeless or work with the homeless in Knoxville.

Renfro said KARM is working on updating the men’s dormitory and add-ing buildings to Serenity Women’s Ministry to serve as shelter for intact fami-lies. Fundraising efforts are ongoing.

Also new this year is KARM’s Arts on Broadway program, which brings pro-fessional performances to KARM’s guests.

KARM urges independenceBy Emma Dale

Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries hosts the male half of their 400 nightly guests in a long, bare, grey room outfi tted with indus-trial looking bunks in rows. Each bed is numbered, and after each man checks in at a table outside the hall (a process that included being registered in HMIS, a sort of national homeless net-work), he receives a bunk number along with sheets, a

blanket and a pillowcase to go on said bunk.

Sue Renfro, director of marketing and communi-cations, says that KARM has been working on the problem of having home-less “regulars” consistently staying there, by redirect-ing them toward different programs that encourage job-searching and an over-all search for independence.

“We’re a ‘Motel 5,’ not a Motel 6,” she said.

We can end homelessness

Tales of a VolunteenBy Emma Dale

The fi rst day of my job as a Volunteen at Children’s Hospital, I get handed a bad

picture of me on an ID and an ugly khaki vest.

“OK, so they’re not the most attractive,” Cathy, who’s one of the two women

maelstroms in charge of the program, says as she holds it up to me, “But, they have pockets!” She gestures to the two gigantic abysses on either side of the vest.

I’m given a laminated card detailing in tiny print nearly everything, Cathy tells me, that could go wrong in the four hours my shift spans. The appropri-ate reaction, in equally tiny words, is almost always “Go to the nearest nurse’s station and await further instruc-tion.” Basically, whatever happens, don’t get involved unless you want the paper-work fi lled out afterwards to give the Himalayas a run for their money.

That seems to be the gen-eral consensus with most of my work there, too. Just like every other Volunteen who put on his or her khaki vest, I had heady aspirations of making changes, of being inspirational; and just like every Volunteen that padded up and down the halls of the hospital, I eventually real-ized my job consisted of this:

*knock, knock, knock*“Hello, I’m Emma from

Child Life Services.“Is there anything I can

get you today?”*mumble, mumble*“No? You sure? We’ve got

Matthew McConaughey movies, books, toys…”

*grumble, cough*“OK. Have a great day.”*tries to close the door

softly and fails*

That’s as life-changing as my work gets, most of the time. I get a drink from the cafeteria, contemplate whether I can get away with unbuttoning my vest, and drag my feet when it’s time to go organize a playroom, or make paper bag puppets

(One time, while man-ning the information desk, two of us made 50. Fifty). Sometimes I even wonder if the lengthy registration process was worth it.

But then a little moment happens that makes up for the three hours and 55 min-utes I spend doing nearly nothing.

The little girl I’m watch-ing in the patient room stretches her arms up to me to be picked up.

A child wearing only a diaper and an IV shrieks in joy when we give him a Spi-derman plane.

A mom brags in broken English about her baby’s ad-vanced motor skills on the elevator ride up to the cardi-ology unit.

A girl I saw entering the doctor’s offi ce in tears fl ounces out an hour later, animated and smiling when we let her pick a stuffed ani-mal to take home.

Those are the little things that overshadow even the moment you realize that some of the children you’re putting butterfl y stick-on tattoos on aren’t ever going to walk out of this building.

They’re the little things that make being a Volunteen and having to wear an awful vest all worth it.

Emma Dale

“It brings positive art and beauty to our residents,” Renfro said. “It is part of our ministry of healing.”

By Maggie WilliamsLast Tuesday the Shopper-News interns delivered

Mobile Meals for senior citizens in North Knoxville. It was a very enlightening experience for me and all of us who were involved.

We split into three groups, and each group had a delivery route. Each route has around eight stops on it, and every day 60 routes are delivered. That’s a lot of deliveries!

This program helps the community in a way people don’t normally think about. The people were very ap-preciative of us. One man, when asked how his day was, replied, “Any day I wake up is a good day.” The other recipients had similar responses. This is an ex-perience I won’t soon forget.

Shopper interns Charlie Ham-

ilton, Abi Nicholson and Mad-

die Ogle prepare to deliver

Mobile Meals to a resident. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Laken Scott, Mobile Meals coordinator Shelly Woodrick, Anne Marie Higginbotham, Peggy Williams and Bet-

ty Mengesha fi nish volunteer orientation and are ready to head out to deliver meals. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Mobile Meals: delivering more than foodBy Ruth White

Mobile Meals delivers close to 800 meals every day to individuals in Knox County. The hot, well-bal-anced meals are distributed by many volunteer drivers.

Last week the Shopper interns spent the morning handing out food and chat-ting with several residents during the day. Many meal recipients were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by fi ve smiling individuals (as opposed to the standard one or two) who were eager to talk and listen to stories.

Several residents invited the group inside and shared memories of family with the interns. One woman shared stories of her fi ve children and showed the group por-

traits of each hanging on her dining room wall. Although her life has had a few bumpy spots, she stated that she has been very blessed and is happy to have some of her children living near her. As the group left, she hugged each intern a big hug, appre-ciative of their time to listen.

Another meal recipient, a couple who has been mar-ried for almost 70 years, shared stories about their family, the gentleman’s mil-itary service and their love of being outdoors.

This day, the residents in the Sterchi and Inskip area that experienced meal de-livery times fi ve, received more than food, but the gift of companionship and friendship.

Woodrick keeps Mobile Meals moving

By Betty MengeshaThere are many people

in Knoxville who have reached an age where they must depend on others to acquire food or cannot af-ford to feed themselves. Luckily, Mobile Meals, also known as Meals on Wheels, has developed an organiza-tion to reach out to these individuals and better their living conditions.

So much work is put in to help the process move smoothly. A major part of this process is the volun-teer work. Imagine hav-ing to organize 80 volun-teers every day, making sure that new volunteers are educated on how the system works, everyone is given a route to feed over 800 people, and no harsh weathers prevent anyone from having a meal.

Well, Shelly Woodrick

does all of this every day as the volunteer coordinator of Mobile Meals.

Woodrick has been work-ing with Mobile Meals for two years. She has had sev-eral experiences with media and other non-profi t orga-nizations. She has a true passion for helping those in need and that is what led her to Mobile Meals.

With all the expenses that seniors are struggling with these days, Woodrick puts effort into aiding any-one in need as best as she can.

She says, “We try to keep them in their home as long as we can.”

Mobile Meals has been around in Knoxville since 1971, and they continue to help as many as they can. If you would like to volunteer or offer a donation call 865-524-2786.

Privileged to help By Maddie Ogle

The smell of salmon pat-ties and tartar sauce drew us toward the Mobile Meals kitchen. We sat around a rectangular table as Shelly Woodrick, volunteer coor-dinator, described our task.

We set out with maps showing the locations of peo-

ple who had ordered meals – a choice of hot or cold.

After we delivered all of the food to the many people, I realized from the kind words of appreciation that this service is very impor-tant. At the end of the day, I felt very privileged to have helped these people.

Mobile Meals a great experience

Shopper news • JULY 1, 2015 • 7 weekenderFRIDAY, JULY 3

■ Midnight Voyage LIVE: One More Time (A Tribute to Daft

Punk), 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/

tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ Red, White and Blues Pre-Independence Day Picnic and Casey Abrams Concert, 6:30 p.m., The Lawn at

Renaissance|Farragut, 12700-12800 Kingston Pike. Family-

friendly event. Bring lawn chairs. Info/tickets: www.

farragutbusiness.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 4 ■ Boys & Girls Club of Tennessee Valley Duck Race, 2:02

p.m., World’s Fair Park, 1060 World’s Fair Park Drive. Benefi ts

the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley.

■ Clinton Fireworks and 4th of July Event, 5 p.m., Lakefront

Park. Free event. Info: 457-0642.

■ Festival on the Fourth, 4-10 p.m., World’s Fair Park, 1060

World’s Fair Park Drive. Free festival; held rain or shine.

■ Independence Day Concert, 8 p.m., World’s Fair Park.

Performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Free com-

munity concert open to the public; no tickets required.

■ Independence Day Concert and Fireworks Show, 7:30

p.m., A.K. Bissell Park, 1403 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge.

Bring lawn chair or blanket. Concert by Oak Ridge Commu-

nity Band. Free; donations accepted. Info: www.orcb.org or

482-3568.

■ July 4th Celebration and Anvil Shoot, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Mu-

seum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Clinton.

Includes demonstrations, music, food and more. Info: 494-

7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

■ Let Freedom Ring: 4th of July at Marble Springs, 10 a.m.-5

p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John

Sevier Highway. Free; donations appreciated. Info: 573-5508,

info@marblesprings.net or www.marblesprings.net.

■ Norris Day July 4th Celebration on the Norris Commons.

Presented by the Norris Lions Club. Lots of activities. Bar-

becue pork and chicken dinner with all the sides served by

the Norris Lions Club, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Norris Middle School

cafeteria. Info: 368-4884.

■ Rocky Top July 4th Celebration, George Templin Athletic

Field. Live music, food, infl atables, games and more. Fire-

works, 10 p.m.

■ Sons of the Revolutions Celebration, 10 a.m., James

White’s Fort courtyard, 205 E. Hill Ave. Free admission; dona-

tions accepted. Info: www.jameswhitesfort.org.

■ The Secret City Excursion Train, Heritage Center, Oak

Ridge. Departure times: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Info: www.

secretcityrailroad.com or 241-2140.

■ Town of Farragut Independence Day Parade, 9:30 a.m.,

beginning on Kingston Pike at Lendon Welch Way and con-

tinuing to Boring Road.

■ Wine and Canvas – Festival on the 4th Art Walk, 2-8 p.m.,

World’s Fair Park, 1060 World’s Fair Park Drive. Featuring

30-minute demonstration classes on 8”x10” canvases. Free.

SUNDAY, JULY 5 ■ Native American Flute Circle, 4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center,

2915 Island Home Ave. Everyone welcome. To register: 577-

4717.

By Carol ShaneAnd now for a good ol’

American success story.The kind of story that

doesn’t happen very often, but when it does says a lot about the American spirit.

At the age of 11, Taber Gable began studying piano at the Joy of Music School, which provides free music lessons to kids who for vari-ous reasons wouldn’t ordi-narily be able to have them. Blessed with natural talent, he practiced diligently.

Along with mastery of the instrument, he garnered respect from staff and col-leagues for what the school’s executive director, Frank Graffeo, calls “his work eth-ic and pursuit of the highest musical goals.” He gradu-ated from West High School and won a full music schol-arship to the University of Hartford in Connecticut, graduating in 2014.

And now he’s at Juilliard.

Studying with Wynton Mar-salis. Ever hear of him?

Not only that, he seems to be a prince of a person. Graffeo says, “Ever since Taber became a part of the Joy of Music School family, he has distinguished him-self as a person of humility, abundant talent and over-fl owing grace. It has been an unparalleled pleasure to watch and hear his develop-ment as a man and as a mu-sician.

“No matter how accom-plished he becomes as a mu-sician, he has demonstrated his full development as an accomplished human being through his desire to give back to the teachers and administrators of the Joy of Music School.”

Gable is indeed giving back. Because of his love for and appreciation of the Joy of Music School, he and three of his Juilliard jazz co-horts are in town to perform

a benefi t concert. Gable says, “My motiva-

tion was to give back and show appreciation and gratitude to all those who have supported me. In the last fi ve years I haven’t had much time to be home or show the benefi ts that my schooling has granted me, so I fi gured it was time. It was also a brief chance for me to get away from the big city and come back home and bring along my musical friends who have become family away from home, and show them my Tennes-see home.”

Joining Taber are drum-mer Jonathan Barber, gui-tarist Andrew Renfroe and bass player Lesly Valbrun.

The evening’s host will be Hallerin Hilton Hill of New-stalk 98.7 WOKI, and food will be provided by Holly’s Eventful Dining. The event sponsor is Clayton Bank, with additional support

from World Travel.In case you were wonder-

ing, Taber is the fi rst Joy of Music School student to at-tend Juilliard. He wants ev-eryone to support the school that provided him his foun-dation, momentum and op-portunity so that more and more children can take part and see their lives changed through the art and disci-pline of music.

But, says Graffeo, “The gratitude runs both ways. We are honored to have played a role in his growth.”

Juilliard Jazz for Joy takes place at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, July 9, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Tickets range from $25 to $125. Top-level tick-ets include a private recep-tion afterward with Taber and his friends. Tickets are available at 525-6806 or at http://bit.ly/1GAodFl.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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Pianist Taber Gable, now studying at Juilliard, brings his jazz quartet home next week to benefi t the Joy of Music School. Also

pictured is saxophonist Marquis McGee. Photo submitted

ShShhopopopppepepp rr news • JULY 1,1, 22010155 • 7

Jazz for Joy

Strippers and sci fi , oh my!

Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Mike (Channing Tatum) get into it as Ken (Matt Bomer), Tarzan

(Kevin Nash), Richie (Joe Manganiello) and Tito (Adam Rodriguez) watch in “Magic Mike XXL.”

By Betsy PickleThe summer of sequels

continues this week, with two biggies hitting local screens today (Wednesday) to get an extra slice of that holiday pie.

Size matters in “Magic Mike XXL.” The R-rated sequel to the pulchritudi-nous 2012 hit picks up three years after the fi rst. Mike (Channing Tatum) has left the stripper life, but he can’t resist rejoining the Kings of Tampa when they decide to go out with one last big show in Myrtle Beach.

Producers are counting on the same magic as be-fore. The cast also includes Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez,

Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Kev-in Nash, Elizabeth Banks and Andie MacDowell. Gregory Jacobs directed.

Expect a lot of “He’s back” jokes to accompany “Terminator Genisys,” a PG-13 reboot of director James Cameron’s 1984 clas-sic. Once again, John Con-nor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sar-ah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and save the human race, but when Kyle arrives he discovers the timeline has been fractured. He must depend on unexpected al-lies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), to complete his new mission

of resetting the future.Alan Taylor directs the

re-envisioned “Genisys,” which also stars J.K. Sim-mons, Courtney B. Vance and Sandrine Holt.

Opening on Friday at Downtown West is “The Overnight.” Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) and their son, RJ (R.J. Hermes), are new to Los Angeles, and they’re happy to meet Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) and Char-lotte (Judith Godreche) and their son, Max (Max Mori-tt). But a family play date grows increasingly bizarre as the night wears on.

Patrick Brice wrote and directed the R-rated com-edy.

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Basement Records is a haven for music lovers

Basement Records owner Matthew Adkisson stands among thousands of vinyl records in his shop at 5009 Chapman High-way. Photo by S. Barrett

By Sara BarrettMatthew Adkisson pur-

chased Basement Records from its founder three years ago. Since then, the music store on Chapman Highway has become a destination for music fans and collec-tors as far away as Califor-nia and England.

“I wanted to create a place where people could come in and talk music,” said Adkisson. He has al-ways had an interest in mu-sic, but his love of collecting really began after college when he worked at Turbo’s Records in Morristown. With thousands of records and hundreds of CDs and cassettes on hand, Adkisson has just about every style of music available. “I want people to know if they come in for a particular genre but are also interested in some-thing else, I’ll have it, too,” he said.

“Initially, I saw a lot of

older collectors and teens riding the wave of fads who would come in to purchase vinyl,” said Adkisson. But now, his customer base var-ies from teenager to college student and thirty-some-things to senior citizens.

“Everyone’s breaking out their record players,” he said, which he sells in addi-tion to speakers and receiv-ers. Basement Records also offers a variety of fi lms on BluRay and DVD, and hard-to-fi nd imports.

Adkisson has thousands more albums in storage, which is helpful when replen-ishing shelves emptied by daily sales. He says he puts hundreds of new albums into stock every day. The business has grown so fast in the past three years, he is considering an expansion.

Adkisson enjoys the thrill of the fi nd when sell-ers come in with albums for him to purchase. “I got away

By Anne HartWhile the name may be somewhat

deceiving, in that there is no religious training for participants, the mission of the Young Women’s Christian Asso-ciation (YWCA) hasn’t changed since its founding in 1899.

The organization is still a social ser-vice agency with its primary mission “to help women who are alone and need help and have no place to go,” ac-cording to Marigail Mullin, CEO of the Knoxville YWCA since 2006.

Speaking to the Rotary Club of Bearden, Mullin said the downtown YWCA offers refuge to women in tran-sition in its 58-bed facility.

But that shelter isn’t free. The wom-en must fi nd jobs and pay $60 a week in rent. They may stay no longer than two years, and there is always a wait-ing list for the available space.

Mullin said the case histories of the residents “are very hard to read.

There are 58 different stories, but one thing they all have in common is that

they have decided to change their lives. We meet with them, we work with them, but we don’t do it for them.”

There is a large staff that works with the victims of domes-tic violence, with the court system and with

the Family Justice Center. “We want to alleviate pain, stress and danger,” Mullin told the group.

Mullin said the program has an 85 percent success rate of women who are able to live on their own and support themselves within the two-year time period.

The Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA, located in East Knoxville, has a different mission, Mullin said, serv-

ing as a community center and offer-ing an after-school program to some 300 students from Vine Middle School yearly.

With help from a federal grant, the organization has also developed curriculum for a new program called “Game Changers.” The program will teach middle school boys about do-mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking and ways in which they can prevent violence against women and girls.

The YWCA is partnering with four local organizations in the mentoring program: 100 Black men of Knox-ville, Emerald Youth Foundation, the Knoxville Area Urban League and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Knoxville.

Mullin said the local YWCA is funded by the United Way, grants and donations from the public. It works in collaboration with about 100 other or-ganizations.

M. Mullin

YWCA provides vital social services

from collecting for a while several years ago, and I al-ways wonder what I missed during that period of time when I wasn’t looking,” he said with a laugh. “It’s that kind of stuff that keeps you

up at night.”Basement Records, 5009

Chapman Highway, is open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily except Wednesdays and Sundays. Info: 573-2182 or www.basementrecordstn.com.

Fun at the Circle GRosalie Inman from Morning Pointe of Lenoir City Assisted Living feeds a llama at the Circle G Ranch Safari in Strawberry Plains. Visiting the ranch was a bucket list favorite for several residents. Photo submitted

■ Dixie Lee Farmers Market, Renaissance|Farragut, 12740 Kingston Pike. Hours: 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through Oct. 31. Info: dixieleefarmersmar-ket.com; on Facebook.

■ Ebenezer Road Farmers Market, Ebenezer UMC, 1001 Ebenezer Road. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Tuesdays through late November. Info: on Facebook.

■ Knoxville Farmers Market, Laurel Church of Christ, 3457 Kingston Pike. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Fridays through late November.

■ Lakeshore Park Farmers Market, 6410 S. Northshore Drive. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Fridays through Nov. 20. Info: on Facebook.

■ Market Square Farmers Market, 60 Market Square. Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 21. Info: marketsquarefarmers-market.org.

■ Maryville Farmers Market: Church Avenue. Hours: 9 a.m.-sellout, Saturdays through Nov. 17.

■ Maryville Farmers Market: New Providence Presbyteri-

an Church, 703 W. Broadway, Maryville. Hours: 3:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Satur-days through Aug. 29.

■ New Harvest Park Farmers Market, 4700 New Harvest Park Lane. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Thursdays. Info: on Facebook.

■ Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Historic Jackson Square, 281 Broadway Ave. Oak Ridge. Hours: 3-6 p.m. Wednes-days; 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays through late November. Info: on Facebook.

■ Seymour Farmers Market, lower parking lot of Seymour First Baptist Church, 11621 Chapman Highway. Hours: 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays through Oct. 10. Info: seymourfarmers-market.org; on Facebook.

■ “Shopping at the Farm” Farmers Market, Marble Springs, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. 3-6 p.m. Thursdays through Nov. 1.

■ UT Farmers Market, UT Gar-dens, Neyland Drive. 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 21. Info: vegetables.tennessee.edu/UTFM.html; on Facebook.

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