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Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will host 10 constit-uent meetings during October and November to give citizens the opportu-nity to speak individually with him about

issues that are important to them. These meetings are open to the public.

In South Knox, Burchett will meet from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at the Howard Pinkston Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike.

By Betsy PickleThings are always busy around

South Knoxville Elementary School, but this fall the bustle is in high gear.

Just a week after Tanna Nicely was named the school’s new prin-cipal, South Knoxville Elementary was offi cially designated as a com-munity school through the Great Schools Partnership and Knox County Schools.

With Susan Martin taking on the role of site coordinator earlier this month, the South Knoxville Community School is growing fast.

Community schools offer after-school academic and enrichment activities for students, but that’s just the beginning. South Knox-ville offers a free supper to the entire family every weeknight, and plans are in the works for pro-grams for parents.

“Eventually, we will have class-es for parents,” says Martin. “And we want parents to come and teach classes themselves.”

As of last week, 59 of South Knoxville’s 150 students were en-rolled in the community school. SKES has one of the highest per-centages of students involved in its after-school program of all nine Knox community schools.

Nicely and Martin describe themselves as a team. In fact, Nicely brought in-depth knowl-edge of community schools with her. Her last assignment was at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet School, which started a commu-nity school last year. Nicely was in the team of Sarah Moore Greene educators who attended the Na-tional Community Schools Fo-rum in Cincinnati last spring and studied established community schools in the area.

“We toured several models that had been in place for 20 years,” says Nicely. “I saw lots and lots of services and ideas and ways to en-gage families and communities, so that was a really good education.

“My purpose in going up there was to look at best practices and

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Community School already taking root

Tanna Nicely and Susan Martin

services and try to replicate that at Sarah Moore Greene. Little did I know that we would be building a school here.”

Nicely says her biggest take-away from the forum was “edu-cating the whole child.” With the help of community partners, she believes South Knoxville Elemen-

tary can be a base for physical and mental health as well as provide a strong foundation for academics.

Martin says that many of the SKES programs are similar to programs at the other community schools, but South Knoxville is refi ning some and implementing

We haven’t heard much of that since that since August elections and Indya Kincannon’s depar-ture whittled McIntyre’s major-ity down to a 4-5 minority, and depending on the outcome of the Nov. 4 race to replace Kincannon, the former majority would prob-ably be well advised to start prac-ticing a new mantra.

New board member Amber Rountree has one:

“Go big or go home.”Rountree has requested a

called meeting to vote on abolish-ing SAT-10, an exam for kinder-garten through second grade that many educators feel is inappropri-ate. SAT-10 is not state-mandated, and board chair Mike McMillan is expected to honor her request. Rountree wants a vote before the tests are ordered.

Board member Karen Carson is expected to oppose Rountree’s

South Knox rep wants fewer tests in K-2

By Betty Bean In the recent past, when teach-

ers or parents asked for relief from Knox County Schools’ test-happy corporate reform regime, Super-intendent James McIntyre and the 8-to-1 school board majority that had his back would tell them to suck it up and get with the pro-gram.

Analysis

Rountree

School chant: ‘Change is hard’

“Change is hard,” they’d say to tearful mothers telling of their children’s mounting test anxiety.

“Change is hard,” they’d tell teachers saddled with evalua-tions based on subjects they never taught.

efforts. Carson said at last week’s mind- and butt-numbing fi ve-hour workshop that it’s the school board’s job to hire a su-perintendent and set goals. It’s the superintendent’s job to decide what

tests will be administered.But Rountree disagrees. She

quit her job as a school librarian to serve on the school board. Her South Knox constituents elected her, and she’s not been shy about saying how she feels about Mc-Intyre’s heavy-handed adminis-tration.

Rountree, Patti Bounds and Terry Hill have served notice that they intend to own future school board meetings. It’s unlikely that McIntyre’s lengthy, orchestrated

presentations will recur. County Commissioner Charles

Busler said last week that commis-sioners would never allow Mayor Tim Burchett, or any mayor, to sit at their table and control their meetings.

In fact, Burchett often stays in his offi ce, monitoring commis-sion meetings and making himself available if needed.

Change is hard.And we should expect change

for the Knox County Board of Education, starting this week with Amber Rountree’s effort to dis-continue high-stakes testing for kids who have not yet learned to read. Are we really that data-driv-en? And to what goal?

Will Rountree win the vote? Maybe yes, maybe no. But the message is clear: Go big or go home.

Yes, change is hard.

Street View coming?If you take a stroll on a

Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding pig-gyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep mov-ing!”

➤ Read Bill Dockery page 5

Three Rivers to SoKno?

For the past several weeks, members of the South Knox-ville Neighborhood & Business Coalition have been circulating petitions throughout SoKno to show Three Rivers Market that they would support a second location of the market in the 37920 ZIP code.

Three Rivers general man-ager Jacqueline Arthur came to the SKNBC’s October meet-ing last week and – while not promising anything – defi nitely did not dash the group’s hopes. SKNBC presented Arthur with several hundred signatures.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 3

Marching bandsMembers of the South-Doyle

marching band perform their halftime show during the Knox County Schools band exhibi-tion, hosted by Central High.

➤ Ruth White’s pictures on page 8

Hope renewedIn the fi rst game of this new

season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable difference. His quickness reduced the pres-sure on the offensive line. His speed generated yardage. His ability to throw on the run cre-ated problems for cornerbacks.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 9

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However, while the Gamma Knife is one-of-a-kind in the area, it is not a cure for everything. Some tumors of the brain will still need traditional surgery. “Gamma Knife adds another treatment option for patients with brain cancers or other non-cancerous abnormalities in the brain,” says Dr. Norman.

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new ones.“We’re actually the only

community school that has tutoring for kindergarten through second grade,” she says. “All the other commu-nity schools focus on three through fi ve. If students are not in specifi c tutoring, they get help with homework dur-ing that same block.”

Librarian Amanda Sand-ers does Read for 20 each Monday and works with physical education teacher Kara Monk on a Girls on the Run program for fourth- and fi fth-graders. Physical activ-ity is a big emphasis, with partners Children’s Hospital and the Boys & Girls Clubs also leading programs.

Working with the school already are the Helen Ross McNabb Center, Vine Medi-cal Clinic and University of Tennessee education and ecology students. Mentors from the Kids Hope pro-gram at First Baptist Church are continuing their school-time activities as well as vol-unteering with some of the enrichment programs.

Upcoming programs in-clude a bike club and STEM Scouts for boys and girls.

The community school is eager to host groups from the area. Boy Scouts and the Old Sevier Community Group are meeting at the

school. The Chapman High-way Garden Club has offered to help broaden gardening activities. South Knoxville Baptist and Colonial Heights United Methodist churches provide support.

Martin and Nicely have reached out to neighborhood businesses and residents, and they have been im-pressed with the response. Old Sevier turned out last Saturday to beautify the grounds with plants and

trees.The key to it all is engage-

ment – from students and the adults in the community.

“I would love to see the old and the new together, a sense of community across generations,” says Martin, whose grandmother at-tended SKES. “There’s a lot of history here that I want to make sure new families know about and that they’re just as proud of their community as older generations are.”

Betsy Pickle

SKNBC member Patti Berrier and Three Rivers Market general manager Jacqueline Arthur discuss the possibility of a new market in South Knoxville.

Three Rivers dream still aliveFor the past several

weeks, members of the South Knoxville Neighbor-hood & Business Coalition have been circulating peti-tions throughout SoKno to show Three Rivers Market that they would support a second location of the mar-ket in the 37920 ZIP code.

Three Rivers general manager Jacqueline Ar-thur came to the SKNBC’s October meeting last week and – while not promising anything – defi nitely did not dash the group’s hopes. SKN-BC presented Arthur with several hundred signatures.

Arthur explained that, as a customer-owned food co-operative, Three Rivers has a different mission than a typical grocery store. One of its tenets is to make healthy, natural food available in communities that don’t have access to them. So while most stores might think about branching out to West Knox-ville, Three Rivers would be more likely to expand to South or East Knoxville.

Three Rivers, which opened its location at 1100 N. Central St. in August 2011, has done research that indi-cates that 37920 is its second biggest supporter (after its own 37917 neighborhood). The co-op is interested in growing, so when it does, SoKno may get its own TRM.

Also attending the meet-ing were a couple of repre-sentatives from Blanchard

State Rep. Joe Armstrong pays tribute to the late Harold Woods as state Rep. Gloria Johnson, Sylvia Woods, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and Harold Woods Jr. listen during the dedica-tion of the Harold G. Woods Memorial Bridge on James White Parkway. Woods, who died in January, was a native South Knoxvillian who devoted himself to countless community, labor and political endeavors. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Sylvia Woods stands under the sign marking the bridge honor-ing her late husband with Karen Ray, mother of Marcus Ray Al-ford Sr., the Army captain killed in Iraq for whom the southern end of the James White Parkway is named.

& Calhoun, the company de-veloping the site of the for-mer Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee. As you read in this space last week, South Knoxvillians attended the city Board of Zoning Ap-peals meeting in force with questions about variances requested by B&C. The company sent the reps to discuss setting up a meet-ing or meetings with South Knoxvillians.

One meeting is tentative-ly scheduled for Nov. 13. The goal is to have one or two public meetings before the BZA’s Dec. 18 meeting.

Also presented at SKN-BC: The damaged Young High marker is being reno-vated and will be placed at the southwest corner of Duff Field. Lake Forest Neighborhood Associa-

tion’s planting and pruning day is still on for Saturday, Nov. 15; meet at Lake Forest Presbyterian at 9:30 a.m. For more info, call Molly Gilbert, 865-247-6504.

■ Ups and downs for SKAAward-winning photog-

rapher/image maker Ben Moser gave members of the South Knoxville Alliance tips on refi ning their busi-nesses’ images at SKA’s Oc-tober meeting.

The head of Moser Visu-als said to think beyond a company’s mission state-ment and look at the image and message the company is putting out into the world. He emphasized keeping it simple and focused.

Not all of Debra Brad-

shaw’s fi rst meeting as SKA chair was so positive. The group decided not to go ahead with its fi rst-ever cal-endar due to cost concerns, and they learned that a $1,200 grant from Lowe’s for planned beautifi cation along Chapman Highway would not be forthcoming as the home-improvement store had chosen another commu-nity group as recipient.

SKA will have its next business mixer on Monday, Dec. 15, at Labor Exchange to network and reach out to po-tential members. The group is already making plans for its second Second Saturday South on April 11, 2015.

Bradshaw reported that the SKA board had ap-proved launching the Soup Project, modeled after pro-grams throughout the coun-

try that are partly a potluck soup dinner and partly a fundraiser for community projects.

Guests Monica Davis and Jason Noble, residents of Lakemoor Hills, came to promote the National As-

sociation of Letter Carriers’ Drive 2 Survive Muscular Dystrophy Golf Tourna-ment on Sunday, Nov. 9, at Lambert Acres. Registra-tion begins at 9:30 a.m. Info: Davis, 865-680-6988, or Noble, 865-748-6464.

COMMUNITY NOTES

■ Colonial Village Neighbor-hood Association. Info: Terry Caruthers, 865-579-5702, t_caruthers@hotmail.com.

■ Knoxville Tri-County Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, Connie’s Kitchen, 10231 Chap-man Highway, Seymour. Info: https://www.facebook.com/TriCountyLions/info.

■ Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly Gilbert, 865-209-1820 or mol-lygilbert@yahoo.com.

■ South of the River Demo-

crats (9th District) meets at 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Commu-nity Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Jim Sessions, jim.sessions@comcast.net or 865-573-0655.

■ South Haven Neighbor-hood Association meets at 10 a.m. each third Saturday, Round-Up Restaurant. Info: Pat Harmon, 865-591-3958.

■ South Woodlawn Neighbor-hood Association. Info: Shel-ley Conklin, 865-686-6789.

■ Vestal Community Organi-zation meets 6 p.m. each sec-ond Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Old Maryville Pike. Info: Newman Seay, 865-577-4593.

FAITH NOTES ■ Seymour UMC, 107 Simmons

Road in Seymour, hosts LOOVE (Living Out Our Vows Everyday) marriage-enrich-ment classes along with Di-vorceCare, DC4K (DivorceCare for Kids), Single and Parent-ing, and GriefShare support groups. Classes meet 6-8 p.m. each Wednesday. New par-ticipants are welcome at any time. Info: 573-9711 or email kimleake81@gmail.com.

■ Church Women United will meet 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, 3023 Selma Ave., for the World Community Day.

SOUTH KNOX SENIOR CENTER

■ Wednesday, Oct. 29: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:30 a.m. guitar lessons; 9 a.m. painting; 10 a.m. quilting; 11 a.m. Water Peeps; noon bridge.

■ Thursday, Oct. 30: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 9 a.m. water aero-bics, South Knox Opry “Hal-loween Hoedown”; 12:15 p.m. ballroom dance; 1 p.m. rook, water aerobics; 1:30 p.m. line dance; 2 p.m. water Pilates; 2:45 p.m. swing dance.

■ Friday, Oct. 31: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:45 a.m. advanced senior cardio fi tness; 10 a.m. yoga; 11 a.m. rook, water aerobics; 1 p.m. beginning art, water aerobics.

■ Monday, Nov. 3: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 9 a.m. water aerobics; 10 a.m. Medicare info: Those Turning 65; 11 a.m.

quilting, Water Peeps, Musical Monday trip; 1 p.m. bridge, water aerobics, dominoes.

■ Tuesday, Nov. 4: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:45 a.m. Senior Cardio Fitness; 9 a.m. water aerobics; 10 a.m. crafts/bead-ing, SAIL exercises; 11 a.m. water aerobics; Tai Chi I; 12:30 p.m. Tai Chi II; 1 p.m. water aerobics, rook; 2 p.m. water Pilates, yoga.

■ Info: 865-573-5843.

HALLOWEEN EVENTS

■ Haunted Lantern Tour 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Meet in the Mead’s Quarry parking lot. Ages 10 and up. Fee: $10, $7 for members. Info/to register: 865-577-4717, ext. 110.

■ Halloween at Ijams, 9 a.m.-5

p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Ijams Na-ture Center. All ages. Includes: a Halloween-themed scaven-ger hunt and goody bag for children in costume. Free and open to the public. Info: 865-577-4717, http://ijams.org/.

■ Little Tyke Halloween Hike, 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, Ijams Nature Center. Ages 2-6. Costumes are welcome but not required. Free; preregis-tration required. Info/to regis-ter: 865-577-4717, ext. 110.

■ The Mysterious Past of Blount Mansion, 5:30-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 29-30, 200 W. Hill Ave. Cost: $10. Learn about Blount Mansion’s mysterious past, in-cluding legends, customs and myths during the candlelight and fl ashlight tours of the mansion. Reservations pre-ferred. Tickets: https://squa-reup.com/market/blount-mansion. Info: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org.

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(didn’t) want to know about Knox County politics.

In about a week, those who didn’t take advantage of early voting will cast their ballots in local and state general elections.

Feel free to use the peer-less prognostications below as a guide to tasting the thrill of victory by voting for the winning side.

■ State Senate District 7Republican candidate

Richard Briggs is regarded as the un-Stacey, a dignifi ed upgrade from the clownish Campfi eld.

It’s not likely that Briggs will become a target for Jon

LarryVan

Guilder

Stewart or Stephen Colbert, but the good doctor’s core values are little different from the man he looks to replace.

A line in the modern Hip-pocratic Oath reads, “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is pref-erable to cure.”

Briggs, a respected sur-geon, opposes Medicaid ex-

pansion and the Affordable Care Act, despite the latter’s emphasis on preventive medicine. Go fi gure.

In contrast, Democratic candidate Cheri Siler fa-vors healthcare reform. She supports an increase in the minimum wage, a posi-tion Briggs considers a “job killer.”

Not surprisingly, she’s been unsuccessful in luring her painfully shy opponent to the debate platform. In this overwhelmingly Re-publican district Briggs has nothing to gain from a mod-erated debate.

Residents of the 7th Dis-trict deserve more than just an upgraded vocabulary in

their next state senator, but they aren’t going to get it. Briggs rakes in 70 percent or more of the vote.

■ Gloria Johnson vs. Lane Kiffi nOtherwise known as the

race for State House District 13, the contest has taken a turn for the bizarre.

A fl yer recently mailed by a PAC supporting Republi-can candidate Eddie Smith compared Democratic in-cumbent Gloria Johnson to Lane Kiffi n, “all talk” and “promises, promises.”

If nothing else, this Hail Mary tactic demonstrates that no idea is too desperate or too shopworn not to be repeated.

In 2012, Tennessee Re-publicans employed the

same shtick in a television commercial. Like Kiffi n, said the announcer, John-son’s strategy was to “take the money and run.”

Johnson might consider countering with an endorse-ment from Bo Wallace, the giant-slaying Ole Miss quarterback who led the Rebels to a recent win over Kiffi n’s Alabama Crimson Tide. If Wallace isn’t paid it shouldn’t violate NCAA rules.

If Johnson really wants to play hardball, use six de-grees of separation to link Smith with Derek Dooley and give Kiffi n haters a run for their money.

Johnson has earned an-other term, but this one will be close. When time ex-pires, Johnson 52 percent, Smith 48.

■ Nashville CatsIn the best of all possible

worlds, Republican Mark “Coonrippy” Brown would be squaring off against Democrat Charlie Brown for the governor’s chair.

“Coonrippy” wants the state to give back his “res-cue” raccoon it seized and released into the wild. Char-lie wants his own party to support him. Both are likely to be disappointed.

In the real world, Charlie Brown opposes Republican incumbent Bill Haslam. Even Lloyd’s of London wouldn’t give you odds on the Democrat’s chances.

Brown captured 30 per-cent of likely voters in an Au-gust Rasmussen poll. I’d be surprised to see him reach that percentage on Nov. 4.

The little man who wasn’t there

Candidates Jamie Rowe, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler Photoby Betty Bean

Last night I saw upon the stairA little man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayOh, how I wish he’d go away

– From “Antigonish” by William Hughes Mearns

2014 appears to be the year of not showing up – particularly for Republicans Eddie Smith and Richard Briggs, who are employing the same no-show tactic, likely for different reasons.

ic (note the small D) process and makes Briggs look like a wuss, despite the pictures of him decked out in combat gear on his campaign litera-ture.

Smith, who has been ducking public forums in what is thought to be a tight District 13 House race, doesn’t enjoy a name rec-ognition advantage over the incumbent Johnson, despite assaulting voters with a re-lentless negative direct mail campaign that peaked with a ludicrous Alabama Week comparison piece likening Johnson to Lane Kiffi n.

Despite being offered many potential dates for a League of Women Vot-ers forum, a genteel affair most candidates consider a required campaign ap-pearance, neither Smith nor Briggs could be bothered to fi nd the time. And neither

accepted the joint invitation from County Commission-ers Jeff Ownby (R) and Amy Broyles (D) to appear at a forum at West High School last Thursday (the three District 2 school board can-didates were also invited, and Jamie Rowe was the only one to attend).

Smith did, however, make a guest appearance at South-Doyle Middle School earlier in the week on an evening when parent/teach-er conferences were being held. He stationed himself in the teachers’ break room near the food, where he had easy access to a captive au-dience and was clearly in violation of Knox County Schools’ policy prohibiting political solicitation inside schools:

“Solicitation or adver-tising in any form by can-didates for public offi ce or

But the effect is the same – their would-be constitu-ents are being cheated of the opportunity to hear them defend their positions and

philosophies against those of their Democratic oppo-nents, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler. Both men, pre-sumably, are confi dent the R behind their names will secure their elections.

Briggs, the presumed frontrunner for the District 7 Senate seat after his pri-mary victory over Stacey Campfi eld, is likely relying on the well-practiced, Dun-can-family theory of not allowing lesser-known op-ponents the chance to raise their public profi le at his expense. While this makes some strategic sense, it also shortchanges the democrat-

political- or issue-oriented organizations is not per-mitted. Political literature shall not be distributed through the school to stu-dents, nor sent home to parents, nor placed in teachers’ mailboxes, loung-es or on school premises. Political advertising in any form shall not be permit-

ted on school facilities, on school grounds or in school publications.”

Smith refi ned the tac-tic three days later when he sent a campaign worker armed with yard signs and campaign literature to West High School, thus managing to violate KCS policy with-out even being there.

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Tammy Kaousias is the newest member of the Knox County Election Commis-sion and is the appointee of state Rep. Gloria John-son, who has known her for more than 20 years.

An attorney in solo prac-tice of business law, she is a member of St. George Greek Orthodox Church. She met her husband in 1997 in West Java, Indonesia, where they married. He is a Knoxville native, and they live in North Hills.

She is an engaging, com-mitted activist on voting-rights issues.

Kaousias, 48, is one of two Democratic members of the election commission. She wants feedback from the public on whether the election commission should meet at 8 a.m. as it makes it diffi cult for working people to attend if their workday starts at the same time.

She says it is “very un-

fortunate” that Belle Morris School was closed as a vot-ing precinct but is not sure it can be reopened. She feels voting should be accessible and the process transparent and nonpartisan.

She serves on the board of the Knoxville Jazz Or-chestra with such widely known personalities as Hal-lerin Hill, Bill Arant and El-len Robinson. She likes yoga and owns the Glowing Body Yoga Studio off Central Av-enue.

As an election commis-sioner she is paid $300 a month and has declined the county health insurance for which she is eligible.

With the absence of the chair, Christopher Heager-ty, the commission is now tied at two Democrats and two Republicans, making it totally bipartisan. Kaousias is the only commissioner not pictured on the website but plans to correct that soon.

Both Democrats on the Knox County Election Com-mission are women. The GOP has not had a woman serving on the local election commission in over 25 years since Hazel Showalter.

In April 2015, the GOP state legislators will make three recommendations for commissioners to the State Election Commission, which is virtually always honored. It will be interest-ing to see if the GOP legisla-tors, which include at least two new members (Rick Briggs and Martin Daniel), will make any changes in the current lineup. If Hea-

gerty is not back to work at the commission by then he is likely to be replaced.

■ Until 2008 there was a replica of the offi ce of the late Sen. Estes Kefauver at the University of Tennessee Hoskins Library. Then, due to structural concerns, that area of the building was closed and the furniture and photos were placed in stor-age, where they have been for six years. They are not likely to be on public display for some time to come.

The Kefauver family, some of whom live in the San Francisco area now, would like to see the offi ce re-es-tablished. The problem is no one seems able to do it.

The UT library, under the able leadership of Steve Smith, simply does not have a place to locate it. The arti-facts in storage have not di-minished.

Discussion has occurred with the Tennessee State

Museum executive direc-tor in Nashville. However, the museum has much of its current collection, includ-ing over 300 Red Grooms art pieces, in storage, hop-ing for a new museum to be built someday. The likeli-hood of a new state museum in Nashville, which would cost over $160 million (not including new storage space), being built soon is wishful thinking given the needs competing for con-struction funds.

Last July 1, in an email to Lindsay Kefauver, one of the senator’s daughters, the ex-ecutive director of the state museum said the museum “was honored to become the repository” of the collection but she may have spoken too soon as the furniture portion of the collection is actually owned by the U.S. Senate, which stated clearly in 1965 the furniture must be returned to the senate if

not used as a memorial to Kefauver.

Is having the Kefauver collection in storage for six years and facing another six years of storage still a public memorial?

There is also no room for it to be displayed and would simply be in storage in Nash-ville instead of Knoxville if transferred. The commis-sion members were also not informed about this devel-opment at the time but are now aware of it. (This writer is a commission member).

The museum commis-sion will need to set policy on this given that other, more recent Tennessee sen-ators have been nationally known as Senate majority leaders (Baker and Frist) and/or president of the Sen-ate (Al Gore).

■ Sen. Lamar Alexan-der will be at the Knoxville Crowne Plaza Nov. 4 to await the election results.

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By Betty BeanDemocrats once domi-

nated the Volunteer State’s political landscape – both senators, the governor, the General Assembly and most of the congressional del-egation. Now, Republicans control most every nook and crevice of government and Democrats are trying to climb out of the ditch.

One way to begin to do it would be to fi gure out a way to bottle the energy of June Jones, fi eld representative for the U.S. Senate cam-paign of Democratic Party nominee Gordon Ball.

Jones, whose Cedar Lane home is one of the prime yard-sign locations in Knox-ville, made national news in 2012 when vandals kept tearing down her “Tennes-seans for Obama” billboard.

“My yard was a battle-ground,” she said. “Not two days after we put it up, someone tried to steal it.”

So she put the sign back up with deep, reinforced stakes. They came back with a box cutter and sliced it up.

“I was so upset, but you know what? I taped it up… and they did it again. And so I taped it up again and started putting up other signs asking if you’d want to be part of a party that would suppress freedom. The best thing about it was the people that would come to my door and thank me for standing up to them.

“One lady said, ‘I’ve been driving by your house for days.’ I got letters from all over the United States. It was amazing to see all that hate turned into something more.

“My overall personal goal is to make Tennesseans proud to say they’re Demo-crats.”

Jones had more on her mind than signs that year. She was part of Obama’s

The unsinkable June Jones

North Carolina Get Out the Vote operation.

“East Tennessee led the action for the president, and I was over nine counties as a volunteer. We rocked it. The last three weeks of the cam-paign, we had a war room in a condo that a doctor let us borrow. We had tables, chairs and computers in ev-ery room.”

After the North Carolina

polls closed, the group start-ed making calls in Western states as part of the “Rolling Thunder” operation.

That, said Jones, is how to affect the process from a “red” state.

Her conviction that her party can exert its infl uence closer to home isn’t damp-ened by a recent poll show-ing her candidate 21 points behind Republican Lamar

Alexander.“We have absolutely got

them on the RUN!” Jones said. “He’s pounding Gor-don in the press and spend-ing money in the Tri-Cities and Middle Tennessee. La-mar Alexander didn’t fi ght this hard against (primary opponent) Joe Carr! Forty years is enough! We need to change what’s going on in Washington, and until we change WHO’s in Washing-ton, what they’re doing is not going to change.”

Jones is in charge of or-ganizing counties in Middle and upper East Tennessee. The day after this interview, she was headed to meet with Democrats in Hamblen County and with the sheriff of Greene County.

The sheriff of Greene County is a Democrat?

“Yes!” she said. “Pat Han-kins. He’s a Democrat in a very Republican area, and he got voted in. Isn’t that GREAT? We can DO this!”

June Jones at Time Warp Tea Room. Photo by Betty Bean

Trail panoramas may be fi rst for a U.S.

greenway systemBy Bill Dockery

If you take a stroll on a Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding piggyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep moving!”

The card explains that Knoxville and Knox County are partnering with Google to produce a Street View video of the whole green-way system and other notable local landmarks.

When completed, the project will allow armchair hikers to enjoy 86 miles of Knox greenways from the comfort of their computer desks or smart phones. The virtual visuals will comple-ment the elaborate map of trails and parks recently re-leased by the city Parks and Recreation Department.

Both the department and Google public affairs folks decline to talk about the project, but a number of sources have confi rmed that the Street View trek-king has been underway for about a month. The Google website confi rms that Street View imaging is going on now in Knox and Jefferson counties.

Sources say that this project may be the fi rst Street View focusing on a U.S. greenway system, but that could not be confi rmed at press time. A number

of Street Views are avail-able on trails in Yosemite National Park and along Florida beaches.

Most of Google’s Street View images are cap-tured by a multi-camera tower strapped to the top of a small car that is driven along streets and roads. The cameras capture a 360-degree panorama of the passing scenery to form an interactive Google map.

The greenway project makes use of a similar tow-er outfi tted as a 40-pound backpack that sports 15 cameras.

Preparing a Street View video involves four steps: collecting images, matching the images to the ter-rain, stitching the images together seamlessly into a 360-degree panorama and using lasers to create a three-dimensional image that the viewer can move through virtually.

In recent months, Google has expanded use of the Street View technol-ogy to document museums, airport terminals, walks, parks and other scenic locales. In addition to the backpack and car, Street View cameras have been mounted on trolley carts, snowmobiles and tricycles. The company lends the Google Trekker equipment to nonprofi ts and tourism organizations, as well as researchers and universi-ties that can provide access to hard-to-reach places.Contact Bill Dockery at wldockery@

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Good man HughBy Sandra Clark

Anyone in Knox County Republican politics knows the name Hugh Noe.

He was an institution in the Alice Bell community, chairing the GOP commit-tee there for decades. He died Oct. 21 at age 89, just a month shy of 90.

His son, Dr. Ronald E. Noe of Lake City, captured Hugh in his eulogy:

“Dad believed in hard work. (pause) Not so much in vacations. …

“He was a man of convic-tion and diligence. He val-ued education, and he loved his grandbabies.

“We are losing a genera-tion of diligence.”

Hugh and Jean were mar-

ried for 62 years. Pastor Toby Everett of their church, Alice Bell Baptist, said, “Jean, I commend you.”

Everyone at the service acknowledged there was never doubt about where Hugh stood.

He liked Tim Burchett back when Tim was a skin-ny kid who tried to save the world by recycling waste vegetation for mulch. Bur-chett landed a contract with the city (he had no competi-tion because no one else saw merit in this endeavor). All city brush was dumped at Tim’s location. He worked from dawn to midnight.

A major blizzard that year overwhelmed every-one. Brush started piling up

and Tim couldn’t process or sell it fast enough.

A city inspector started sniffi ng around Burchett’s mulch yard with an eye to-ward shutting him down. Someone spotted Noe and suggested he was dumping raw sewage on the mulch.

But reporter Betty Bean determined that Noe was pumping out standing wa-ter and disposing of it at the sewage treatment plant, which KUB confi rmed.

“Hugh was a standup guy,” says Bean.

Mr. Noe was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II who served in Japan. He farmed and ran Noe’s Suburban Septic Service for 50 years. Other survivors are daugh-ter-in-law Judy Noe; grand-children, Dr. Katie A. Noe and Drs. Ronald Andrew (Leah) Noe.

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This week, kids and their parents can take advantage of some terrifi c arts experi-ences around town.

Young actors Alex Carter and Ben Barber portray the “cursed” Baskervilles in the Knoxville Children’s Theatre’s current pro-duction of “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Basker-villes.” Photo by Dennis Perkins

Maestro James Fellenbaum, conductor of the KSO’s lively Young People’s Concerts, reacts to an explosion in the 2012 performance of “Scientifi c Symphony.” This year’s concert se-ries is titled “Are We There Yet?” Photo submitted

A great week for kids and the arts

says Fellenbaum, who is the father of a 3-year-old girl.

Jennifer Barnett Harrell, the KSO’s director of educa-tion and community partner-ships, says she is very excited about the performances.

“The idea is that we’re going on an ‘Indiana Jones’- type adventure with Indi-ana Jones’ distant cousin, Tennessee Smith,” she says. University of Tennessee the-ater department professor and local actor Terry Weber will be playing the role of Tennessee Smith, leading the students in an interac-tive adventure.

The kids must fi nd clues to help them fi gure out where they are traveling next. “Some of the clues will be hidden right in the or-chestra,” says Harrell.

Young performers will be featured, including the West African Drum and Dance group from Austin-East Magnet High School.

Special effects, including whitewater rapids and fi re-works, will provide excite-ment.

“Tennessee Smith unfor-tunately gets doused in a couple of European rivers,” Harrell says with a sly grin.

The concerts are geared toward third- to fi fth-grad-ers. Many school groups plan to attend, but individ-ual tickets can also be pur-chased. At press time, some were available.

Performances are Wed-nesday, Oct. 29, and Thurs-day, Oct. 30, at 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., and Friday, Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m. at the Knox-ville Civic Auditorium.

Info: www.knoxvillesym-phony.com or 523-1178.

■ Elementary SherlockA different kind of expe-

rience awaits you and your youngsters as Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles,” a new adaptation of the clas-sic mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story centers on the legend of a ghostly, diaboli-cal hound that has roamed the moors and stalked the Baskerville family for gen-erations.

When Sir Charles Basker-ville is found dead with enormous paw prints near-by, the case grabs the atten-tion of Sherlock Holmes and

Dr. John Watson.Can they solve the mys-

tery of the phantom hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the legend?

Old Sherlock never seems to lose his popularity, and KCT executive director Zack Allen thinks it’s because he “embodies the best and the brightest in us. He’s a care-ful observer, but he also ap-plies his knowledge. I think of him as a ‘mental super-hero.’”

Allen is one of the co-founders of the 7-year-old company, which has pro-duced more than 60 plays.

The current production, adapted by Allen, has a cast of 14 young actors, ages 11 to 17. “It’s sort of thrilling,” he says, “and pretty spooky when the hound starts howling!

“But,” he points out, “there’s no better place to be scared than the theater. It’s a safe place.”

“Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Basker-villes” runs through Nov. 9, with performances at 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays; and 3 p.m. Sundays.

Info: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com/ or 865-208-3677.Send story suggestions to news@shop-pernewsnow.com.

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On Wednesday, Thurs-day and Friday, the Knox-ville Symphony Orchestra is presenting kid-friendly morning concerts. If your child hasn’t experienced the sights and sounds of a real live symphony orchestra, now is the time.

The Sheena McCall Young People’s Concert, named for its benefactor and titled “Are We There Yet?” will feature music from all over the world. Maestro James Fellenbaum, well known as the popular conductor of the annual fall concerts, will be leading the KSO in a musi-cal travelogue.

“We will explore music in a fun way, from Russia to Austria, from Africa to Mex-ico. Not only will students hear what different parts of the world sound like, but – through use of video pro-jection – they can see where these countries are located,”

By Betsy PickleHalloween is almost

upon us, but unless you’re going to a party, life could get pretty boring after the trick-or-treaters head home Friday.

There’s no better way to entertain yourself than a scary-movie night, and

whether you draw from your own library, rent from Red-box or order on demand, you can quench your thirst for gore, comic thrillers or outright horror.

If you lean toward icon-ic slasher baddies, forget Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees and head straight

for the Freddy Krueger aisle. The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series has far less fi ller than the “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” fi lms combined, and Fred-dy Krueger is a much more personable demon.

(Chill out, John Carpen-ter fans. He was around only

Scare yourself silly – or gory for the fi rst “Halloween.” If you want something really suspenseful, check out his “Assault on Precinct 13.” It’s scare city, no lie.)

I’m not into gore, so you won’t get “Saw” or “Hostel” recommendations from me. But I wouldn’t dismiss anyone who opted for the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Poltergeist” or an “Alien”/“Aliens” double feature.

You can’t go wrong with any of the classics like James Whale’s “Franken-stein” or “Bride of Franken-stein” or Karl Freund’s “The Mummy.” Boris Karloff is practically required view-ing on Halloween for some folks.

If your zombie awareness begins with “The Walk-ing Dead,” you should try George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn

of the Dead.” For a comic take, go for Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead.”

As for me, I fancy the fl ut-ter of bat wings, so my pref-erences run to the vampire crowd. No, I’m not talking about “Twilight.” Check out the original or remake of “Fright Night” for fun, or go for blood with Gary Oldman in the 1992 “Dracula” or Frank Langella in my edi-tor’s favorite 1979 version.

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When Harvey Keener of Decatur, Tennessee learned that a large abdominal aortic aneurysm had grown dangerously close to his kidney ar-tery, physicians gave him two options: tradi-tional open surgery to repair the aneurysm, or a minimally-invasive procedure done with a new, custom-made graft stent.

“I chose to go with the new technology,” says Keener. “It was the perfect choice for me.”

An abdominal aortic aneurysm or “AAA” is weak spot on the aorta that balloons out as it passes through the abdomen. If the aneurysm bursts, if is often fatal. Some people, because of their health, or the size or location of the aneu-rysm, are not candidates for the open surgery.

The traditional aneurysm repair surgery normally requires more than a week in the hos-pital, and months of recovery time. With the minimally invasive endograft procedure, a graft device is deployed through a sheath inserted through small incisions in the patient’s groin. Patients usually leave the hospital in a couple days and fully recovery in around 30 days.

Premier Surgical vascular surgeons Donald Akers, Jr., MD, FACS, and Scott Callicutt, MD, FACS, were the fi rst in the Knoxville region to use a new “fenestrated” endograft to repair com-plex abdominal aortic aneurysms. The surgeons were involved in clinical trials for the device.

“The special graft has small fenestrations or holes in it through which stents can be placed to keep blood fl owing to the patient’s kidneys and other organs,” explains Dr. Callicutt.

Each device is custom-made in Austra-lia. “The graft is precisely created using 3-D computer models developed from patient’s CT scans,” says Dr. Akers. “It’s for very select, com-

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Dr. Donald Akers, Jr., (left) holds a fenes-trated AA graft stent, while Dr. Scott Cal-licutt shows the sheath used to deploy the device.

plex cases that in the past would have been sent to Vanderbilt or other places for treatment.”

On October 6th, Dr. Akers and Dr. Cal-licutt completed the tenth fenes-trated endovas-cular repair at Tennova Physi-cians Regional. Harvey Keener is grateful to have been one of the ten pa-tients who have

benefi ted so far from the new technology.“I’m told my aneurysm was as big as a grape-

fruit. If I had undergone the open surgery, I would’ve been in the hospital for 2 weeks, and recovering for 3 months,” says Keener. “Instead, I was home in 2 days and walking a mile within 2 weeks.”

And, most importantly, Keener recov-ered in time for his wedding day. “Karen and I were married just 39 days after my surgery. It was perfect.”

Because of the quicker recovery time, Harvey Keeler felt great at his wedding, just 39 days after surgery.

The Fenestrated AAA endo-vascular graft is custom-creat-ed for each patient. Graphic courtesy of Cook Medical

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FRIDAY ■ Featured artists at Parkside Open Door Gallery, Fountain

City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., are Fountain City artists Penny Berridge and Renita Andrews; and Frank Harvey of Lenoir City. Berridge will display oil paintings, Andrews will be showing copper and sterling-silver jewelry and Harvey creates 3-D garden art. Info/hours: 865-357-7624 or 865-357-2787.

■ Alive After Five concert: “Costume Party” with Boys’ Night Out, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 865-934-2039.

■ Fall Fun Fest, 6:30 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Hosted by the Christ United Methodist Men’s Club. Food, games, contest for the best food dip. Entertainment by Highway 33. Info: 865-922-1412.

SATURDAY ■ Chili Supper, 5-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716

Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Cost: $10. Includes: homemade chili, cornbread, dessert, drink. Live music by the Woodpickers. Silent auction. Info: 865-494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

■ Chili Cook-off fundraiser for Boy Scout Troop 13, 5-8:30 p.m., Fountain City Lions Club. Entry fee for cook-off : $20. Admission: $5; kids under 5, free. Includes all-you-can-eat chili, drink, dessert. Silent auction. Info: Dave, 865-659-9626.

■ Harvest Celebration, Thorn Grove Baptist Church, 10200 Thorngrove Pike. Breakfast, 7 a.m.; live auction, 10 a.m.; lunch, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Children’s activities, baked and canned goods, live entertainment and more. Proceeds to benefi t church’s building fund. Info: 865-933-5771 or 865-216-3193.

■ Fall festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Clapp’s Chapel UMC, 7420 Clapp’s Chapel Road in Corryton. Fun, food, music. Info: 865-687-4721.

■ Craft Show indoors, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Cumberland Baptist Church, 5600 Western Ave. Woodworking, crafts, jewelry, sports cards and more. Lunch served 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

■ Waggin’ Tails 5K Fun Run, 8:30 a.m., Tommy Schumpert Park, 6400 Fountain City Road. To benefi t Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley. Info/to register: humanesocietytennessee.com.

■ Annual barbecue supper, 5-8 p.m., Corryton Masonic Lodge #321, Emory Road. Donation: $8, 2 for $15, kids under 6 free. Info: 865-216-9956.

■ Farragut Half Marathon, 5K and Kids Run, 9 a.m., Farragut High School, 11237 Kingston Pike. Hosted by the Knoxville Track Club. Info: www.ktc.org or Steve Durbin, durb417@gmail.com.

■ Strange Company Reunion Concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12; some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

■ “Continuum” presented by GO! Contemporary Dance Works, 3 and 7 p.m., Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave. Tickets: $12-$20. Info: www.gocontemporarydance.com or 865-539-2475.

■ Arts and craft fair, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., Middlebrook Pike UMC, 7234 Middlebrook Pike. Pottery, woodworks, jewelry, kettle corn, Christmas items, handmade items, baked goods, etc. Breakfast and lunch served. Info: 865-690-8641.

■ Kitten and Cat Adoption Fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Continues each Satur-day. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

■ Craft Fair and Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Piney Grove Baptist Church, 2109 Piney Grove Church Road. Crafts, chili, hot dogs, bouncy stuff , music, games and more. To rent table: Karen Gwinn or email john@pineygroveknox.org or andrew@pineygroveknox.org.

■ Free family fun day, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Showcases the special temporary exhibit “Birds, Bugs and Blooms: Natural History Illustration from the 1500s–1800s.” Info: 865-974-2144 or http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

■ “Nobody Knows” performances, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Knox-ville Convention Center, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: www.MagahaBoardingHouse.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 2 ■ Opening reception for Knoxville Watercolor Society open

media exhibit, 3-5 p.m., The Omega Gallery, Carson-New-man University in Jeff erson City. Exhibit open through Dec. 3. Gallery hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info: 865-471-4985.

■ “Kickin’ It Old School: Southern Fried Performance Poetry,” 5-7 p.m., Preservation Pub’s Speakeasy, Market Square. Hosted by Sundress Academy for the Arts. Info: http://www.sundresspublications.com/safta/.

■ The KSO Principal Quartet performance, 2:30 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets: 291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com, at the door.

Celebrating the seasons isn’t always a healthy thing. Halloween equals candy; Thanksgiving, mashed po-tatoes with gravy and corn-bread dressing; Christmas, pies, cakes and candy canes.

Plate it

Grilled Vegetable Platter at Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill

brating the seasonsa s a health thing

Seasons

Mystery Diner

At Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill in Turkey Creek, you can celebrate autumn with a platter fea-turing a bountiful harvest that is also a fairly healthy choice.

Seasons is all about changing menus to corre-spond to what’s fresh. Chef Deron Little adds a smor-gasbord of seasonal dishes as the calendar pages turn. His “regular menu” is hard to resist, especially if you have a favorite, but diners will light up their taste buds if they skip over to the sea-sonal offerings to see what Little has cooked up.

The Grilled Vegetable Platter was a great choice

off the seasonal menu. Features were crookneck squash, zucchini, porto-bello mushrooms, roasted artichokes and Brussels sprouts, accompanied with couscous, fl atbread toast points and hummus spread. I line up on the “no, thank you” side of the Brussels sprouts discussion, so I was shocked when I asked our server if “these little green things” were fried lettuce bites.

“No,” he said, “those are the outer leaves of the Brus-sels sprouts. Chef fl ash-fries them.” I still skipped the bigger bites but scarfed down those crispy little leaves that had fl aked off.

I tried to eat the veg-etables the way I knew Chef would want me to – samples of all on the fork for an or-chestrated taste – and it was delicious. I did fi nd myself moving some of the veg-etables around on the plate as I got full for just “one more bite” of the portobello mushrooms. Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill: 11605 Parkside Drive; 865-392-1121

Upcoming food events: ■ Wine Down Wednesday – 6

to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Blue Coast Grill & Bar, 37 Market Square downtown.

■ K-Town Vegans Five-Year

Anniversary Potluck Cele-

bration – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, Best Western Cedar

Bluff Inn, 420 N. Peters Road; free. Bring a vegan dish to pass and your own place set-ting. Drinks will be supplied.

■ Knoxville Food Tours with

Paula Johnson – 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, the Bearden District; $59. Tours limited to 12. Driving tour starts at The Coop Café, 3701 Sutherland Ave., and includes Blackhorse Pub & Brewery and Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop, plus a mystery stop. Info: www.knoxville-foodtours.com.

■ 9th Annual East Tennessee

Chili Cook-Off for Second

Harvest Food Bank – noon to 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 2, World’s Fair Park; $15. Over 30 amateur cooking teams will whip up their tastiest recipes to compete for the best chili in town.

■ Alton Brown Live: Edible

Inevitable Tour – 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St.; $47 to $67. The two-hour show is a unique blend of standup comedy, food experimenta-tion, talk-show antics, multi-media lecture and live music. 865-684-1200.

■ Naples/Ashe’s Winery Din-

ner – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Naples, 5500 Kingston Pike; $75. Featuring Frederick Wildman Imports.

Send upcoming restaurant events to news@shoppernewsnow.com.

It may sound like it, but Michael Keaton is not draw-ing on real life for “Bird-man, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” due to open at Downtown West on Friday.

The much-admired “Batman” of the fi rst two Tim Burton-directed fi lms about the Dark Knight, Kea-ton was one of the biggest movie stars in the world by the time “Batman Returns” came out in 1992. In the past 22 years, he has done solid and steady work but usually with a much lower profi le.

“Birdman” tells the story of a former movie superhero trying to capture admira-tion from critics and adora-tion from fans by mounting a legitimate Broadway play. But the chaos that sur-

While trying to resuscitate his career, actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) also hopes to reconnect with his daughter, Sam (Emma Stone), in the black comedy “Birdman, or The Un-expected Virtue of Ignorance.”

Jake Gyllenhaal plays an ambitious young man who gets into the world of underground crime journalism in “Nightcrawler,” also starring Rene Russo.

Michael Keaton carries, escapes his past with ‘Birdman’

Betsy Pickle

rounds him and the produc-tion makes any kind of suc-cess a long shot at best.

“Birdman” teams Keaton with acclaimed director Alejandro Gonzalez Inar-ritu (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” “Babel,” “Biutiful”). The fi lm is also a change of pace for Inarritu, whose unfl inching dramas have drawn high praise.

This new black comedy tackles the backstage world of Broadway with continu-ous takes and a script that was a two-year, multi-coun-

try collaboration by Inar-ritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo.

The cast includes Zach Galifi anakis as Keaton’s best friend and producer, Naomi Watts as the play’s leading lady, Edward Nor-ton as the troublemaking last-minute leading man, Emma Stone as Keaton’s just-out-of-rehab daughter and personal assistant and Amy Ryan as his ex-wife.

■ Opening wide Friday is

“Nightcrawler,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a young man who wants to do something big. He fi nds his niche when he stumbles into the world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles. Racing rivals to get the fi rst images of a murder or bereaved family members, he quickly rises to the top of the trash-TV heap

as he shows that he will do absolutely anything to get the story.

The fi lm marks the direct-ing debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy, whose credits include one of my favorite fi lms from 2006, Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall,” as well as “The Bourne Legacy.” The wonderful Rene Russo (who happens to be Gilroy’s wife) stars along with Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed.

■ Also opening Friday is “Be-

fore I Go To Sleep,” a thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong; based on the novel by S.J. Watson.

The fi lm is about a woman who wakes up every day with no memories due to a trau-matic accident. Terrifying dis-coveries make her question everyone in her life. I know many women who would love to question Colin Firth. Or Mark Strong. Or both.

Kaylee AkinsZakari Prater

By Betsy PickleIt’s a miracle! The

Dogwood Dolphins are SOARing!

Dogwood Elemen-tary School is encour-aging students to do the right thing with a school-wide behavior program called SOAR: Safe Organized Ac-countable Respectful.

When students meet behavior expec-tations that refl ect the program, they earn punches on a SOAR card. After 30 punches, the students go to the offi ce to get sprinkled with confetti, and their names go into a pool for student of the month.

Each grade level has a representative who receives a SOAR shirt, donated by First Presbyterian Church, a certifi cate from Project GRAD and a free kid’s meal from Texas Road-house.

Winners for Octo-ber are: Zakari Prater, kindergarten; LaTaya Flemming, fi rst grade; Kaylee Akins, second grade, Christopher Watson, third grade; Bobby Ladd, fourth grade; and Juan Scalf, fi fth grade.

South-Doyle band presents ‘Framed in Jazz’

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GO VOTE NOV. 4th!Paid for by “Friends of Gloria Johnson”, Lisa Sorensen, Treasurer

Principal Lisa Light, who admits to having a competitive na-ture, bites her way to victory over three of her teachers.

Bobby Dunning

was one of the soloists

for the evening as

South-Doyle High presented

its halftime show

“Framed in Jazz.”

Color guard Courtney Puckett helps tell the mu-sical story using colorful costumes and props.

A hay bale decorated by Kar-en Christian of McLemore Flo-rist puts festival attendees in the spirit.

Second-grader Ashleigh Morgan, second-grader Kaitlyn Neeley, third-grader Jason Stewart andkindergartner Zack Morgan deal with the hard-to-hold Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Photo by BetsyPickle

Enjoying a fi eld trip to the zoo are Dogwood students Raenisha Greenburg , Anijah Shenault, Willkaririus Young and Xander Campbell from Lisa McCoy’s class.

Watch out for wild Dolphins! Nate Childs, front, and Esperanza Buendia-Uscanga, Caden Mor-gan, Nolan Vick, Isabella Webb, Billy Pratt and Abby Garcia-Martinez from Brittany Shassere’sclass at Dogwood Elementary School have a great time visiting the Knoxville Zoo. Photo submitted

By Betsy PickleGorgeous fall weather was the icing on

the doughnut, er, cake at Gap Creek El-ementary School’s Fall Festival.

The school’s PTA was thrilled with the turnout, and attendees young and seasoned seemed pleased with the array of kid activi-ties, vendors and food. Raffl e and silent-auction items raised a good haul for the PTA to support Gap Creek.

But what really made the day was com-petition, specifi cally the doughnut dangle challenge (not sure that was really the title, but it describes the event).

Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts were strung from the frame of a tent, adjusted

to the height of the competitor in separate “heats” for faculty and students. Holding their hands behind their backs, they had to try to catch and eat their own doughnuts. First one to fi nish was the winner.

Who knew doughnuts could be such squirmy little rascals? It was just like bob-bing for apples, except it was more sanitary, and faces ended up covered with sugar in-stead of water. Let’s not think about the ca-loric intake.

Principal Lisa Light trounced her adult competitors, while Jason Stewart tri-umphed among the kids. But since every-one got a free doughnut out of it, they were all winners.

Central High School wel-comed all of the high school marching bands to Foun-tain City for the Knox Coun-ty Schools band exhibition last week.

All 13 of the high schools performed their halftime routines, giving one another an opportunity to watch the

best of Knox County on the fi eld.

A lot of hard work goes into a band performance, as was evident on the sidelines at the exhibition. Parent volunteers helped members and band directors haul bulky equipment on and off the fi eld in record time.

Go for the doughnut!

Dogwood kids SOAR

na’s mother started in the bakery business in 1962.

A lot has c h a n g e d since Shel-ton began. B a l l o o n s and roses

used to be the norm for cake decorating. Now any-thing goes. “I am no longer surprised by what people request,” says Shelton. Ideas for specialized cakes are phoned in, emailed or sketched and brought in. Stack cakes are extremely popular around the holi-days, with sales growing from 25 to over 200.

Shelton’s son, Ethan, is only 4. Although he hasn’t started baking yet, he has become the offi cial “waste management” director of the bakery with his very own special trash can. The tradition continues.

Info: 865-577-9616.

SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • OCTOBER 29, 2014 • 9 businessBy Sara Barrett

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is launching a Wreaths Across America team in an effort to raise funds to place as many live wreaths as possible on the graves of veterans buried at three veterans’ cemeteries in Knox County.

He met with Kim Harri-son and others last week.

Harrison’s son, Special-ist Daniel Harrison, was killed Dec. 2, 2004, in Mo-sul, Iraq, during his fi rst deployment to the Middle East. She said to lose a child “is the greatest fear of any veteran’s family, but my son had so many army buddies and I have a strong support group. There are so many without family. (The cem-etery) can be sort of a lonely place, especially at Christ-mastime.”

Daniel Harrison at-tended Carter High School. He has a younger brother, Joshua. His mom’s advice to other military families is this: “You’ve gotta stay

It is unusual for someone who is only 32 years old to be celebrating his 25th an-niversary on the job, but that is exactly what James Shelton is doing.

Shelton

Kim Harrison and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett visit East

Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery. They are holding a photo

of the grave of Harrison’s son, Daniel. Photo by Sara Barrett

Burchett launches wreath project

strong at home so they can s tay strong in the fi eld.”

Burchett said a $15 spon-sorship will pay for a wreath made of live greenery to be placed on a veteran’s grave at either the East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery on Lyons View Pike, the new East Tennessee State Veter-ans Cemetery on Governor John Sevier Highway or the Knoxville National Cem-etery on Tyson Street near

Old Gray Cemetery.“If you simply sponsor

one wreath or choose to sponsor 100, you are hon-oring veterans and families who have honored our com-munity with their service,” said Burchett. “Whether the men and women buried in our veteran cemeteries were lost during combat or after living a long life, we do this for the family members who are still living.”

There are more than 15,000 veterans buried at the three veterans cemeter-ies in Knox County.

Anyone wanting to spon-sor a wreath can do so by visiting www.knoxcounty.org and clicking on the Wreaths Across America banner. The organization is also offering a “three-for-two” sponsorship special, which means they will do-nate a wreath for every two that are sponsored.

The wreath sponsorship cutoff deadline is Dec. 1. The wreaths will be placed on the graves on Dec. 13.

Harrison said there are many organizations that send care packages to sol-diers. Contact any of the military organizations and they can direct you appro-priately. She said her son’s best friend in the service said she always sent Dan-iel the best care packages, and he would always share everything he got with his buddies “except his Frosted Mini Wheats.”

Celebrate with the Village Bakery

Helping celebrate are: Scott Davis, state Reps. Kelly Keisling and Joe Armstrong, Ashley Burnette, Julie DuPree, Knox County

Commissioner Randy Smith, City Council member Finbarr Saunders and Knoxville Association of Realtors president Doyle Webb.

Brittany Mathes tended bar.

Nancy Whittaker

By Patricia WilliamsThe Home Builders Asso-

ciation of Greater Knoxville was established to protect the interests of homeown-ers when building or mak-ing improvements to their homes.

While doing so, the staff had been walking on the same offi ce carpet for 22 years.

“We thought it was time for us to fi x up the place,” said Ashley Burnette, ex-ecutive vice president. The association hosted an open house Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 221 Clark St. to show off its new look.

Among the fi rst things you see when entering the building is a display of the major streets that defi ne

sections of Knoxville. “We want our offi ce to represent the area that we serve,” said Burnette.

He assigned decorating decisions to Julie DuPree of DuPree-Graf Construction LLC, who is secretary and treasurer of HBAGK and chairs the 2014 Parade of Homes.

She coordinated the dé-cor and shopped with area businesses. As most of the members have a founda-tion in construction, mud, dirt or steel, DuPree chose colors of steel blue and gray – with a pop of orange, of course.

Among those attending the reception were Knox County Commissioner Charles Busler and City

Homebuilders remodel offi ce space

A 25th anniversary cel-ebration will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Village Bakery, 6202 Chapman Highway. The ever-popular thumb-print cookies will be on sale for just 25 cents each. Cake and punch will be served.

The Village Bakery is the oldest continuously oper-ated bakery in Knoxville. Shelton, a third-generation baker, started working with his mom, Tina, at the bak-ery when he was only 7. Ti-

Win and you’re in

Amazing that what hap-pened to Justin Worley changed the appearance of Tennessee football.

Thousands of Butch Jones advisers can now see clearly what the coach had overlooked.

In the fi rst game of this new season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable differ-ence. His quickness reduced the pressure on the offen-sive line. His speed gener-ated yardage. His ability to throw on the run created problems for cornerbacks.

Astounding that without playing even one previous snap this season, Dobbs was able to produce a couple of rare touchdowns.

OK, there was less heat. The game was essentially

over by the time Dobbs en-tered. And his two turnovers contributed to the wreckage that was the eighth consec-utive loss to Alabama.

Josh was not responsible for Amari Cooper. The Tide wideout chewed up Volun-teer pass defenders with a world-record 185 receiving yards in the fi rst quarter. Offensive coordinator Lane Kiffi n smiled as if he had a little something to do with it.

That dull pain and the

3-5 Tennessee record now have some new feel-better companions – a hint of opti-mism, a ray of hope, even the possibility of better things to come before next year or the next. If there are enough able bodies for a quorum, we’ll fi nd out Saturday night at South Carolina whether this is real or a mirage.

In a weird way, Worley brought this on. The gutty gladiator took the beating, week after week, the price for inept blocking and no running game. The fi nal straw, an injury to his shoul-der at Ole Miss, forced Jones to cancel the red-shirt plan and allow Dobbs to play.

Those with fl awless 20/20 hindsight may think they see that withholding

him for seven games cost a victory or two.

This is called hindsight bias, the tendency to seize a tidbit of new information and alter the facts, to adjust what really happened into what might have or could have or should have. Some so affl icted may even believe they knew it was going to end up this way and why in the heck did it take so long.

Jones left the impression that he waited as long as he could, until late August, before choosing a starting quarterback. He probably had valid reasons for pick-ing Worley. Maturity, poise, strength, experience and practice performance could have been in the equation.

Under the assumption

that the future just has to be better than the recent past, the coach decided to save a season of Josh eligi-bility until it would be more meaningful, until he could gather more talent around him. Butch gambled that these Vols could qualify for a bowl game without a dual-threat quarterback.

It was going to be really close. It may still be.

Alas, there is now way to know if Dobbs could have made the difference against Florida. All we know for sure is that Worley didn’t.

The need for a quarter-back who can run has been borderline desperate. Fans understood. Through loud exclamations, they’ve been trying to help the coach.

Perhaps you have heard it.“We need a quarterback

that can run! Everybody has one.”

“Butch thinks a ‘mobile quarterback’ is anyone who can do the Vol Walk.”

“We may never beat the big boys unless we get a versatile quarterback, a playmaker with another dimension.”

“Tennessee needs a dual-threat quarterback” sounds like an old phonograph record with a bad groove. Paying customers have been singing that tune, over and over, since Condredge Hol-loway. That was the 1970s.

Dobbs isn’t the “Artful Dodger” but he’s a reasonable facsimile. We’ll see if chang-ing shirts changes November.Marvin West, westwest6@netzero.com

Stefan Cooper

Both are safely inside the playoff bubble at the mo-ment, but neither Gibbs nor Central is resting easy.

The Bobcats travel to the Eagles’ nest on Friday with a spot in next week’s Class 5A playoffs a certainty for the winner. Several four-win teams statewide will make

Gibbs, Central

looking to take

guesswork out of

playoff berth

for some intense scoreboard watching late Friday for the loser.

Kickoff at Gibbs is 7:30 p.m.

Entering Friday, the Eagles (5-4, 3-4 District 4AAA) occupy the No. 25 position in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s updated Class 5A postseason selections. The Bobcats (4-5, 3-4) are three spots back at 28.

The top 32 after Friday make the playoffs. Playoff pairings are released Sat-urday.

The Eagles and Bobcats both have reasons to feel good about their chances Friday. Gibbs quarterback Preston Booth had a hand in four Eagle touchdowns in the opening half in a 39-6 win at Powell last week.

Running for three scores, the Gibbs fi eld general also had a 49-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Warden. Brendan Wilson ran back a Powell punt 41 yards for a touchdown.

Central didn’t fare so well last week at Oak Ridge, fall-ing to the Wildcats, 48-7, but look closer.

The unbeaten Wildcats, who meet equally unbeaten Anderson County for the district championship on Friday, led the Bobcats, 3-0, at halftime. Jeremiah How-ard ran for 100 yards on 12 carries with an 11-yard scoring run against Oak Ridge. At least three quar-ters of that kind of football, and Central is sure to be in the hunt on Friday.

Last meeting: 2013 – Gibbs 24, Central 14

The Breakdown: This one could hardly be any closer.

With Booth running the show, Gibbs has looked su-per in wins over Karns (34-17) and Powell (39-6) in its last two games. Central has one of the area’s top play-makers in senior receiver Cedric Washington. Junior quarterback Austin Kirby is a cool-headed passer with plenty of targets in addition to Washington.

The big ones are always won with defense, and in se-nior Hunter Lane, a 6-foot-3, 250-pound All-State defensive end selection a year ago, Gibbs has one of the best on that side of the ball you’ll see this season. If Central can’t keep him out of Kirby’s backfi eld, it could be a long night.

Upcoming FridayAustin-East vs Union County

Bearden vs. William Blount

Carter vs. Fulton

Central at Gibbs

Christian Academy of Knoxville vs. Roane County

Farragut at Maryville

Grace Christian Academy at Rockwood (Thursday night)

Halls at Clinton

Hardin Valley Academy vs. Heritage

Karns: Open

Knoxville Catholic vs Alcoa

Powell at Campbell County

South-Doyle at Sevier County(Thursday night)

Webb vs. King’s Academy

West at Lenoir City

Marvin West

20/20 hindsight: Sad that it took an injury

Council member Duane Grieve.

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