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By Betsy PickleEverything feels new to the

Church of Divine Mercy – new year, new building. Getting there, however, has taken a lot of old-style hard work.

The church, which serves the area’s Vietnamese Catholic com-munity, moved into a building of its own at 10919 Carmichael Road on Sunday, Sept. 1.

“We had mass in the morning, and in the evening we started fi x-ing the church,” says Father Hoan Dinh. Former home of Northstar Church, the building had been sit-ting empty for some time and had deteriorated.

The pastor says church mem-bers pitched in and cleaned the whole building.

“We remodeled the sanctu-ary to make it look like a Catholic church,” he says, adding that reno-vating the social hall was one of the biggest projects.

Even now, the renovation isn’t fi nished.

“Thank God they are willing to do it,” says Hoan. “They know that we’re small, and we don’t have money to pay workers. They come here to help the church.”

Having a building of their own means a lot to the members of the church. The Divine Mercy Catholic Mission has had a couple of homes throughout its nearly 20-year his-tory, fi rst at Immaculate Concep-tion Catholic Church in downtown Knoxville, and then at Knoxville Catholic High School at Cedar Bluff.

“Immaculate Conception was far away from most of the people, and also the mass time was not good for them – it was 6 p.m. on Sunday,” says Hoan. Once the com-munity moved to the high school and moved mass to Sunday morn-ing, attendance started growing.

“We knew we couldn’t stay there forever because it is a school, so we started to think about a place,” says Hoan. “We didn’t think about buying a church like this one. We thought we would maybe buy a warehouse and fi x it for our gath-erings. We looked around a lot and found this place. We were very lucky.”

The church was able to pur-chase the building with the help of the Catholic Foundation of East

Vietnamese Catholics celebrate in church

of their own

The star at the front of the

Church of Divine Mercy

shows the way to the

new church building for

the Vietnamese Catholic

community. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Home for the New Year

Father Hoan Dinh

leads an evening

mass on New

Year’s Day at the

Church of Divine

Mercy’s new

home at 10919

Carmichael Road.

Olivia Dang, age 3, brought

a party horn to church to

help with the celebration.

Tennessee. A dedication was held Nov. 17 with Bishop Richard F. Stika presiding.

Hoan says an average of 200 at-tend Sunday’s 9 a.m. mass. Tues-day, Wednesday, Thursday and every other Saturday, mass is held at 8:30 a.m.

Since coming here in June 2012 from Maryland, Hoan has helped strengthen participation among

the younger crowd by starting the Eucharistic Youth Society, which meets after Sunday mass.

“They’re very active now,” he says. “Through that group the kids get more involved in the commu-nity.”

Daily masses are in Vietnam-ese, but Hoan, who came to the United States from Vietnam fi ve and a half years ago, does parts of

the Sunday service in English “forthe kids who were born here.”

The next big event for thechurch will be the Lunar New Yearcelebration. The new year beginsJan. 31, but the celebration willbe held Sunday, Feb. 16, at Sa-cred Heart Cathedral School gym.Even the church’s new digs won’taccommodate the event – 1,000 to1,500 people usually attend.

Great snapsSherri Gardner Howell says: For me, the best part of

(the community newspaper business) is when we can be your photo album. The Karns/Hardin Valley Shopper-News has had some great snapshots this year.

On this fi rst Monday of the new year, take a look at some of our favorites from 2013.

We’ve got “Hello, Dolly” and Mabel Teague selling carrots at the fair. We’ve got beavers and somebody blowing up the STEM lab at Hardin Valley Academy.

➤ See Sherri’s Wrap on A-3

On tearing down Gibbs Hall

Marvin West goes way back with UT’s Gibbs Hall. He writes:

Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three practice fi elds for football.

➤ Read Marvin’s tale on A-5

The Doc is inCarol Zinavage scored an

interview with band leader and trumpeter Doc Severinsen at his home in Blount County. She writes:

The paint crew that’s working up-

stairs doesn’t know who he is.“He’s the nice guy who hired

us to paint,” they say with grins and shrugs. They agree to Google him when they get home.

Anyone who grew up watch-ing The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson instantly rec-ognizes the iconic bandleader.

➤ Find Carol’s Corner on B-2

First Tennessee to mark 150 years

First Tennessee Bank’s promise is to be the best at serving our customers, one op-portunity at a time. The bank was founded in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was presi-dent, and employees have been practicing that promise ever since – even if it wasn’t written down. No fi nancial institution could endure for a century and a half without dedicated employees earning the trust of generations of customers.

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Legalizing Jim McClainBy Sandra Clark

James L. McClain was one of Knoxville’s hardest-working busi-ness owners with retail nurseries in various parts of town including a big one on Clinton Highway.

In the 1980s, he started raising plants on 19.44 acres in the middle of nowhere.

How was he to know that Lovell Road would surge to a 5-lane thor-oughfare with an interstate inter-change and subdivisions springing up like a fi eld of daisies?

In a case that’s been pending at the Metropolitan Planning Com-mission since 2009, McClain seeks to rezone his land to commercial.

That’s what the county’s depart-ment of codes administration im-plied when it cited the John Deere Nursury (McClain’s tenant since 1996) for operating improperly for the land’s agricultural zoning.

Yikes! Nearby homeowners are at peace with the ongoing nursery operation, but commercial zon-ing could open up the land to who knows what.

In November, MPC commis-sioners told McClain’s lawyer, Ar-thur Seymour Jr., that the day’s postponement would be his last.

We’ll see, because McClain’ peti-tion is back on the MPC agenda for this Thursday, Jan. 9, at 1:30 p.m.

Seymour argues that Knox County can’t regulate the John Deere operations because the land use is consistent with state law. The storage and sale of nursery plants and related equipment is an ac-cepted agricultural use, he says.

Not so fast, says the MPC staff. “The site is completely surrounded by homes, and placing a commercial designation on 19.44 acres would be incompatible with surrounding land uses. ... Deny.”

McClain is seeking both rezoning and an amendment to the county’s sector plan. Seymour points to West Knox Utility’s headquarters just north of McClain’s property. That

Lovell Road site is zoned commer-cial and used for the utility’s offi ce, shops and truck storage.

Farragut committees schedule meetings

It’s back to business for the town of Farragut.

■ The Education RelationsCommittee will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Town Hall.

■ The Economic DevelopmentCommittee will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at Town Hall.

■ The Board of Mayor and Alder-men will meet at 7 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 9 and 23, also at Town Hall.

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By Wendy SmithJune Loy Whitaker moved

to a 130-acre farm on Sink-ing Creek in 1935, when she was just 19 months old. She was the youngest of “Doc” Garfi eld Loy’s and Zola Loy’s 11 children, and the family moved to West Knox County after their Union County farm was condemned by TVA for Norris Lake.

June and her husband, Bob, still live in a waterfront home that Bob built on the property. Five other family members, including their son, Michael, have homes on the former farm.

It appears that June’s property will once again be condemned by forces beyond her control. Unless the Whitakers and their neighbors are successful at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals, John Huber will build nine three and four-story apart-ment buildings a stone’s throw from the couple’s home.

This is the third time that water, or a waterfront development, has threat-ened the Loy family prop-erty. After leaving one farm to escape a TVA lake, the family learned that another lake would soon encroach upon their land, and they began to anticipate the ris-ing waters of Fort Loudoun Lake as construction of the Fort Loudoun Dam began in 1940.

When they received word that the fl ood gates had closed in August of 1943, June and her sister ran down the hill to watch for the water. As it turned out, it took two weeks for the lake to reach their property.

The farm was so remote that the Loys didn’t have electricity until June was a

Farragut High School stu-dent. Most of their needs were met by the farm, where they grew vegetables and raised cattle, hogs and chickens. To avoid driving to Bearden for items like sugar and coffee, June sometimes walked east on the railroad tracks to a small market at Ebenezer Crossing, where Pip’s Iron Works is now lo-cated.

It still seemed remote when Michael was growing up.

“Dad always called it ‘40 and plumb.’ It was 40 miles out, and plumb in the mid-dle of nowhere,” he says.

After graduating from UT with a degree in mechanical engineering, Michael moved to Kingsport. But he came home when he had a job op-portunity in Oak Ridge.

“He said, ‘There are things more precious than money. Everything I love is here,’” June recalls.

He still loves the natural beauty of the property. Deer graze regularly in the fi elds, and Great Blue Herons lurk in the shallow waters of the cove. June points out the island where the majestic birds nest together.

But the family is real-istic. They knew the prop-erty across the water would eventually be developed. They’re not opposed to de-velopment, Michael says, and not necessarily opposed to apartments. But they are opposed to the number of units that has been ap-proved by MPC and Knox County Commission.

June doesn’t want to see tall buildings when she looks out her window and is con-cerned about light pollution.

Michael thinks that too many acres were included in the calculation that de-

Bob and June Whitaker stand at the edge of the

property that has been in June’s family since

1935. John Huber has received county approval

to build nine apartment buildings with 348

units immediately across the water from the

Whitaker’s West Knox home. Photo by Wendy Smith

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termined how many units could be built on the site. If property protected by the Hilltop and Ridge Protection Plan was excluded, far fewer units could be built, he says.

He is also concerned that a conservation easement that Huber says will protect nearby homeowners isn’t yet on paper.

“How will they protect it during construction if no one knows where it is?”

While several commis-sioners visited the Westland Cove development site from Emory Church Road, Amy Broyles was the only one who visited the Whitaker property, which is acces-sible from George Williams Road. June invited them all.

No matter what happens across the water, the family plans to stick around.

“We’re not leaving,” says June.

They who traveled far From page A-1

As the holy family waits with

shepherds and angels, the

three Magi make their way to

the manger. Watching intently

and hidden in the greenery

above the stable is the little

carved church mouse. Photos

by Sherri Gardner Howell

The wise men are moved each week, says Zilles, traveling around the church’s narthex in search of the baby Jesus. On the Sunday closest to Jan. 6, they are fi nally placed at the manger scene and can present the baby with their gifts.

Zilles says the purchase of the nativity scene owned by the church predates her tenure at the church, but she loves to share the history of the hand-carved pieces at Christmas. “Angela Batey, our director of music, and Tami Newsom were the ones who had the vision for these pieces back in 2001,” she says.

The pieces are the work of Otto Preske, a master wood carver in Gatlinburg,

who was commissioned by the church to make them. Preske’s love of carving dates back to when he was a 14-year-old camper at Boy Scout summer camp, says Zilles.

“Later, as a U.S. Navy guy, he received his fi rst ‘commission’ when he carved squadron plaques!”

Preske worked under a master wood carver in Portugal after he got out of the Navy, honing his skills.

The nativity set at Farragut Presbyterian is carved from linden wood, or basswood, a soft wood with a straight, fi ne grain.

The Music and Worship committee purchased the fi rst fi gures of Mary, baby Jesus in his crib and Joseph in December of

2002, said Zilles. “Over the next 10 years, fi gures have been added, including a tiny church mouse that the kids love to hunt for in the greenery. The latest pieces added were a pair of doves.”

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are interesting animals. If you were to combine all the names of what the Shopper-News is and aspires to be into one name, you would have an animal your kids might make up, like an elebearpottomas or a monkiraffebra or such.

Same with the Shopper. We want to keep you in-formed about what is hap-pening in your community – the good, the bad and the ugly. When we do, you can react with smiles, frowns, scowls and laugh-out-louds. You can fi x things, celebrate things and get to know your neighbors.

For me, the best part of it all is when we can be your photo album. The Karns/Hardin Valley Shopper-News has had some great snap-shots this year. On this fi rst Monday of the new year, take a look at some of our favorites from 2013.

STEM camp gets summer startedHardin Valley Academy got the school year started early with a STEM Academy Camp in June

that brought students in to learn from famous “characters,” like Isaac Newton and Marie Curie.

On the last day, George Ashe, assistant principal, and Debbie Sayers, teacher, brought some

excitement with a methane bubbles demonstration. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Christmas is John-Deere greenThe Karns Community Christmas Parade brings out bankers, lawyers, twirlers and marchers for

the holiday’s big event. An essential part of the parade is the meandering tractors that owners

drive down to join the festivities each year in December. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Fresh from the gardenAt the Karns Community Fair in August, Karns resident Mabel

Teague off ered fresh produce at her booth at the Farmer’s Market. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Let loose the lionsStrutting their stuff at the Pacifi c

Rim Street Fest at Pellissippi

State Community College are

members of the Wah Lum Kung

Fu. The October festival was a

celebration of the cultures of the

Pacifi c Rim countries and made

for some good entertainment

and great eating. Photo submitted

Marching for DollyThe Karns High School band brought excitement to the school’s musical production of “Hello

Dolly” in May. They took the stage – and most of the area around it – as the cast of the show

sang “And the Band Played On.” Photo by Theresa Edwards

Blast fromthe past

Karns High School gradu-

ate Jeff Ledford played

the part of an indentured

servant from the 1700s at

Statehood Day at Marble

Springs in June. Ledford

spread out his wares and

taught visitors about the

age-old system of barter-

ing. Photo by Theresa Edwards

Cooling down in AugustThe crafts were anything but seaworthy, but the racers had hearts of champions for the Knox

ProCorps Cardboard Boat Race at the Karns Lions Club Community Pool in August. The race was

a ProCorps benefi t, raising money to help “improve the health and welfare of impoverished

communities.” Photo by Nancy Anderson

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missioner Larry Martin attended the Dec. 21 recep-tion for council member and former Mayor Daniel Brown at Broker Hall on Martin Luther King Blvd.

The board will then go to six members if Sansom and Haskew depart but still have a quorum to transact business. A new chair would be elected, too.

The departure of Mc-Bride cannot be blamed on Republicans in the U.S. Senate but totally on the White House. The seat is vacant due to White House inaction.

The seat became open in May 2013. McBride was chair of the TVA audit committee and a member of the external affairs committee. He wanted very much to be reap-pointed.

McBride disappointed several supporters for his low key and quiet approach to several high profi le issues such as CEO Johnson’s $5.9 million salary for nine months, closed TVA committee meetings and silence on the 2-year dress code for board meetings which triggered a federal First Amendment lawsuit. The charge was he had been co-opted by Johnson and top staff.

The President has mentioned the possibil-ity of selling TVA, and the agency has declined to comment on whether it can be sold without congressional action which seems strange given TVA has a huge legal staff available to comment on hundreds of other issues.

Their spokespersons said the senators would have to answer that ques-tion.

■ Longtime UT Law professor Carl Pierce is retiring this summer. He started in 1972 at the UT College of Law. He was director of the Howard Baker Public Policy Center for several years follow-ing Alan Lowe’s departure to head up the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas. He has done many interviews with for-mer Sen. and Ambassador Howard Baker.

■ There was a large crowd Dec. 29 at the service at Canaan Baptist Church at which longtime pastor Harold Middlebrook gave his fi nal sermon as the pastor. In addition to former Mayor Brown and this writer at-tending, council member George Wallace and his wife, Stephanie, attended. To their credit, both were very engaged in the service and took copious notes.

Martin was Brown’s deputy when he was mayor. Also attending were Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, council mem-bers George Wallace, Duane Grieve, Nick Della Volpe, Finbarr Saunders and Marshall Stair, along with the city’s community relations director Tank Strickland. Also attend-ing were former state Rep. and council member Bob Booker (now director of Beck Cultural Center), state Rep. Joe Armstrong and retired pastor Harold Middlebrook.

■ Randy Boyd, Knox-ville entrepreneur and un-paid higher education ad-viser to Gov. Bill Haslam for the past year, wraps up his time in Nashville in early February.

■ Mayor Tim Bur-chett is getting his fund raising for re-election started on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with a $100 a couple event at the Lighthouse on Baum Drive from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Invitations will go out two weeks before the event. Burchett does not have an opponent at this time and appears to be a sure bet for a second and fi nal term as county mayor.

■ Neil McBride lost his seat on the TVA board today when Presi-dent Obama not only failed to reappoint him but also did not name anyone else.

The 9-member board goes to eight members which will save the pay for one – $50,000 plus travel.

If the President contin-ues to ignore expiring TVA board appointments, then two more vacancies will occur in 2014 including the chair, Bill Sansom, president of H. T. Hack-ney Co. and former state transportation commis-sioner. Barbara Haskew of Chattanooga also departs.

They will go off the board the end of this year although their terms actu-ally end in May unless re-nominated and confi rmed.

Mediating the tire store warsWhen is a managing real

estate broker responsible for the action of an affi li-ate broker? Pretty much al-ways, according to the state Court of Appeals.

In a decision fi led Dec. 23, the court overturned a decision by Knox County Chancellor Mike Moyers to dismiss Mary Bea Corbitt from a lawsuit involving Reid R. Crumpton and Kelly Beeler Tire Service.

Moyers had granted sum-mary judgment to Corbitt, who was managing broker for Heath Shuler Real Es-tate LLC in October 2004 when Plaintiff Crumpton entered into a contract to purchase real estate that in-cluded a house and business from Kelly and Patsy Beeler. Patricia Grissom was the af-fi liate broker for the trans-action.

Crumpton was damaged, he said, when a 5-year non-compete agreement was not included with all copies of the contract. He sued every-one in sight.

Corbitt asked to be dis-missed, saying she was not personally involved in the plaintiff’s purchase and had no knowledge of the trans-action, therefore could not

be held liable for the actions of the affi liate broker.

In an opinion written by Judge G. Michael Swiney, the court said Tennessee law created a duty on the part of the managing broker, and Corbitt failed to show that she met the standard of care suffi cient to satisfy her duty. The court reversed the summary judgment and re-manded the case for further proceedings.

Corbitt argued: “My du-ties as managing broker at Heath Shuler Real Estate did not include involvement in the day-to-day activities or review of the routine con-tracts of independent con-tractor realtors affi liated with the brokerage.”

Judge Moyers said to hold a managing broker respon-

sible for “possible misrep-resentation or negligence of her affi liate brokers” would create a strict liability for managing brokers for the negligent or intentional torts of their affi liates.

The appellate court held “by simply and purpose-fully remaining ignorant of the substance and details of an affi liate’s transactions,” a managing broker could “completely escape her stat-utory duty and any liability.”

In the Crumpton case, the court held, the manag-ing broker’s liability, if any, arises from a breach of her own statutory duty – not from the actions of the af-fi liate broker.

It’s an interesting case with several well-known participants.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Big stories for 2014:

■ 384 fi les are misplaced in the

Criminal Court Clerk’s offi ce

and three dozen citizens are

herded off to jail. Clerk Joy

McCroskey goes on cruise.

■ Ruthie Kuhlman, Herb Mon-

cier and Brian Hornback get

stranded on a desert island.

Together. Republicans every-

where rejoice ... and lay odds

on which will survive.

■ Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones gets the endorsement of

former Sheriff Tim Hutchison.

Hundreds of heretofore-un-

decided GOP primary voters

start wearing those Bobby

Waggoner armbands that

read: “Wagg 4 (star).”

■ Competition for who can

draw the most public pen-

sions accelerates when ace

reporter Snidely Whiplash dis-

covers a former city teacher

working as a bailiff for the

Sheriff ’s Offi ce after a retire-

ment job in city government.

■ Ahh, public employment. Where some make little and

many make much.

■ Doug Harris, in voting to

extend Superintendent Jim

McIntyre’s contract until Dec. 31,

2017, mentioned that he serves

some 50,000 meals a day. Wow!

And there’s a CEO job open just

up the road at Ruby Tuesday.

■ Stacey Campfi eld is working

on gun bills, mentioning on

his blog that he’s remorse-

ful about allowing cities and

counties to opt out of state

law. “A citizen should know

what is and what isn’t a state

crime statewide,” he said.

■ Stacey also noted his resem-

blance to Jason Garrett and

said he’s

not a can-

didate for

coach of

the Dallas

Cowboys.

■ With Cheri Siler

joining Dr.

Richard

Briggs in

trying to

oust Campfi eld, one could call

it the race of the red-haireds

versus the no-haired.

■ Human capital just ain’t what

it used to be. When Superin-

tendent Jim McIntyre hired

former KPD guy Gus Paidousis

to head up school security

and boosted its ranks to 100

or so, who vetted those hired?

We had a guard arrested re-

cently for indecent exposure

at Tyson Park. Somebody get

that guy a petition to run for

county commission!

■ Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey turned

heads with his Christmas

greeting in which he cel-

ebrated that dates are being

set for executions. Finally,

it’s about time and joy to the

world, you-all.

■ Mike McMillan has as much

chance of being school super-

intendent on Dec. 31, 2017, as

does Jim McIntyre. So what

was that extension really

about? It boosted the buy-out

by $225,000.

Jason GarrettAP photo/Tim Sharp

Betty Bean

Good-bye apathy.Hello involvement.There was very little in-

terest in local politics last year and most city council incumbents ran unopposed. Election Day was greeted with a collective yawn.

But if the growing list of potential candidates for county offi ces who had picked up nominating peti-tions by Dec. 31 is any in-dication, 2014 will be very different. There are county commission seats, fee offi ces and judgeships up for grabs, as well as races for sheriff and attorney general. The deadline to return complet-ed petitions is Feb. 20.

School board races ap-pear to be generating the most interest, and the ques-tion there is whether teach-ers can sustain the passion they demonstrated in No-vember and December and translate it into political clout in the May primary. If they do, the election will become a referendum on James McIntyre and his educational philosophy.

By New Year’s Eve, 16 potential candidates had picked up petitions for fi ve school board races. Incum-

2014: Referendum on McIntyre?

Amber Rountree

bents Lynne Fugate, Pam Trainor and Gloria Death-ridge, all of whom voted to extend McIntyre’s contract to late 2017, are drawing op-position.

Watch for new opponents to sign up to run against fi rst-term 9th District board member Trainor, who was elected with strong support from teachers.

This year will be a differ-ent story. In addition to the district’s menu of perpetual candidates, her potential opponents include at least two former educators – Jim McClain (a former principal, school board member and a former Trainor supporter) and Larry Clark (a retired teacher and county com-missioner who now works for the sheriff as a bailiff).

Trainor’s most inter-esting opponent could be fi rst-time candidate Amber Rountree, a school librar-ian and outspoken critic of McIntyre’s heavy reliance

on data-gathering and high stakes testing.

Rountree said she will fi nd new employment if she is elected.

“My understanding is that as an employee of the board, I would probably not be able to hold my teaching position,” she said. “But my degree is in library science, which is more versatile and not as tied to working in a public school environ-ment. My gut instinct is to go ahead and do it. I think we need to see some change – pro-active, not reactive change. I’m going to run a very grassroots campaign.”

She has set up a Twitter account (@vote4rountree) and chosen a slogan –“Growing Great Schools”– and a logo – a tree.

Patti Bounds, a veteran teacher at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School and longtime Powell resident, may run in school board District 7 where term-limit-ed county commissioner R. Larry Smith is a candidate. Incumbent Kim Severance, who also voted to extend McIntyre’s contract, is not seeking re-election.

Bounds plans to retire from Knox County Schools at year’s end. She teaches kindergarten.

Another teacher, Cheri Siler, will be picking up a petition next week to run in the Democratic primary for state senate for the 7th Dis-trict, the seat now held by Republican Stacey Camp-fi eld. She will be the guest of honor at a fundraiser at Central Flats and Taps 5-10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. Her mother, Donna Edwards, will serve as her campaign treasurer, and contribu-tions can be mailed to Cheri Siler for State Senate, 5507 Shannondale Road, Knox-ville, TN 37918; or through her Facebook page (Cheri Kay Siler) or her campaign website, Cherisiler.com.

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Marvin West

Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three prac-tice fi elds for football.

This dorm was built in ’64 and named in a knee-jerk reaction to the death of assistant basketball coach Bill Gibbs, 35. He was lost on the morning of Feb. 3 that year, when a commuter plane crashed on takeoff in Gainesville, Fla.

An entire generation may not have known or cared about Bill Gibbs. I did. That was one of the worst days in 60 years of newspaper life.

The basketball Vols were in Florida for a Mon-day night game. Gibbs was the advance scout who

Down goes Gibbs Hall

had charted the Gators on Saturday. He gave his re-port to Ray Mears and the team at the Sunday walk-through. The next day he would be moving on to see a future foe.

When I heard about the crash, I read tea leaves. Bill wasn’t at the hotel so he al-most certainly was on the fl ight. I hurried to the airport. There were no survivors. I got around enough police tape to see the wreckage from a dis-tance but couldn’t confi rm anything with authorities,

no matter how I asked the same questions.

This was another time in the news business. It was important to be fi rst but more important to be accu-rate. Of course I wrote the story but the combination of personal hurt and profes-sional frustration made for a bad-hair day.

Gibbs Hall became a fo-cal point in my many years of covering the Volunteers. Access to athletes was far more open then and I con-ducted almost daily inter-views in the dorm lobby, after practice and after din-ner, without Haywood Har-ris or Bud Ford arranging or monitoring conversations.

Steve Kiner and I once talked for two hours in his room – about life, obliga-tions, responsibilities, ex-

pectations. The linebacker was struggling. I was a young husband and father and Sun-day school teacher. I thought I had all the answers.

It was an unforgettable ex-perience. We remain friends.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he was guardian of an adopted stray dog named Rabies. I believe it slept under his bed. He and other Vols smuggled in meat scraps. Maids and janitors didn’t notice.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he once walloped basketball giant Rupert Breedlove over a table dispute in the dining room and had to skip a few meals as punishment.

Tim Townes, very small freshman safety, was mis-identifi ed in the dining room by assistant coach Bob Davis: “Son, this is the football section. Wrestlers sit over there.”

Gus Manning persuaded Tom T. Hall and part of his band to stop one evening as

cultural enrichment for the Volunteers. That was the fi rst time I heard “Water-melon Wine.”

Joe Louis came to see and be seen. I tried but the former heavyweight boxing champion didn’t say much.

Bernard King lives on in Gibbs memories. Greg Phil-lips was second-team foot-ball but fi rst in electrical engineering. He was study-ing late when loud music interrupted concentration. He took a walk, found the sound and asked the bas-ketball star to turn it down. King said OK.

Greg went back to books, heard more music and made another trip. Sorry about that. And there was peace and relative quiet.

Phillips seemed more de-termined on the third trip. When Bernard opened the door, Greg picked him up and dumped him onto the stereo. It broke. It is good

for all of us that King didn’t.Police, now and then,

visited Gibbs Hall. Eventu-ally doors were locked. That didn’t prevent the occasion-al girl incident.

The dorm was a focal point as recently as January 2010, after the sudden departure of a famous football coach. From a second fl oor window, somebody screamed, “Go to hell, Lane Kiffi n.”

John Ward delivered the most famous dorm mention, Vol Network, 1967, from the campus of Mississippi State. One fi ne guard hit free throws with seven seconds left in the third overtime to clinch the SEC champi-onship. The big trophy be-longed to the Volunteers.

Ward said: “Wrap it up, tie it in orange and white, and send it to Bill Justus, care of Gibbs Hall, Knox-ville, Tennessee!”(Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com)

January and February can be gloomy, cold and damp. Up in Vermont they call this time of year “stick season.” Aptly named – just look at the hillsides of bare limbs and twigs – all you see are sticks.

Winter birding

Dr. Bob Collier

This is prime season for watching familiar yard-bird friends at our bird feeders.

So why would someone even consider going out on a cold damp morning into a world of sticks and stems to look at birds, espe-cially since there’s nothing out there but a few cardi-nals and chickadees, and a bunch of little brown spar-rows that all look alike, and are nearly impossible to see anyway?

Well, now, that’s a good question, but it has some good answers (or I wouldn’t have asked it in the fi rst place). For one thing, just getting outside in the win-ter, birds or no birds, is something everyone should try.

Once you’ve been out and about in the winter and found that you can survive, and even be comfortable, it tends to grow on you. You will discover that all those trees and bushes and grassy fi elds that were there in the summer are still out there – they just look different. Even though they’re bare and brown, they are full of bird food. All those weeds and fl owers have produced zillions of seeds, and the sumacs and grapes and poi-son ivy vines still have dried fruits and berries. And on most days throughout the winter, lots of tiny, tasty in-sects are out and about on all that vegetation.

This adds up to a lot of food for the scores of spe-cies of birds that choose to winter here with us. They’re all busy making a living, foraging through the short winter days, often too busy to pay much attention to a nearby, nosy birdwatcher.

They’re generally easier to see and observe with-out all those pesky leaves on the trees and bushes, and you often have time to really watch some of the harder to spot ones, like the sparrows, and really get to know them.

We know there are a lot of them out there – Christ-mas counts have shown 80 or more species on a single day. In a good place, you’ll be amazed at the numbers of species and individual birds that you can see.

We have no end of good winter birding opportuni-ties in these parts. Think of Tommy Schumpert Park

and Halls Community Park. Without baseball or soc-cer, these parks are usually peaceful, quiet, birdy plac-es. Having nearby streams, good open fi eld, brushy, and forest-edge bird habitats, plus nice walking terrain and even paved walking paths, they make winter birding easy and fun. We spent a couple of hours at Schump-ert Park on the morning of Dec. 19 and came up with 25

species of birds, including four species of sparrows and a surprise fl yover by three sandhill cranes. Nice, easy, pleasant birding.

In the winter, any place with water seems to offer a higher concentration of bird life. Even as small an area as the duck pond in Fountain City often comes up with a surprise wild duck or gull.

Places a little farther out such as Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery on the Clinch River in Clinton, the Song-bird Trail along the river below Norris Dam and the

Norris State Park above the dam, Cove Lake State Park at Caryville, and Fort Loud-oun Dam and the lake above it up through Knoxville, all offer the usual as well as un-expected water- and shore-type birds all winter.

With a little more time, birders try a bit farther afi eld, looking for birds that wouldn’t ordinarily be ex-pected to be here.

Word recently got around that a couple of short-eared owls had been seen hunting over the tall-grass meadows of Cade’s Cove. Short-eared

owls nest in northern Can-ada and the Northwest, and in winter down through the middle of the U.S. They are rare for us East Tennesseans to get to see.

And so on Friday after-noon, Dec. 20, three of us set out for the Cove. The hills and fi elds were lovely, and traffi c nearly nonexistent. We set up our birding scopes on a grassy elevation along Hyatt Lane. Sure enough, as dusk approached, there they were, fl ying like big feath-ered moths back and forth over the fi elds. One was even

kind enough to perch in a leafl ess tree and pose for us for over 30 minutes.

The owls were accompa-nied by three owl-like hawks called northern harriers. We also saw wild turkeys and deer. And then, across the road came a fat, shiny mama bear with three cubs! It was a scene that will stay with us for a while.

Winter birding is a great alternative to the couch or the mall with the woods mosquito- and tick-free, and alive with birds to learn from and enjoy. Good birding!

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By Sherri Gardner HowellThe faithful at Church of

Divine Mercy did not lounge around in front of the televi-sion on New Year’s Day – at least not between 8:30 and 10 p.m. Eager to celebrate

Father Hoan Dinh swings the

thurible over the communion

sacraments at the Church of

Divine Mercy. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

The brightly lit nativity scene waits for Epiphany. From left are Bui Ann, Trish and Bao Nguyen.

The writing translates roughly to “Emmanuel God is with us.”

Celebrating

with worship

Kayla Vinh, a student at

Catholic High School, talks

with Father Hoan Dinh about

her altar responsibilities

before the New Year’s

Day service begins at the

Vietnamese church.

Kien Nguyen is ready for the

New Year’s Day service at

Church of Divine Mercy.

CrossCurrents

LynnPitts

See? This is a problem. What the author of 2 John may have said to the com-munity of faith we will never know, because it was said and not written. If it had been written, we would likely have it recorded in Scripture.

In much the same way, I have an issue with emails. Don’t get me wrong. I appre-ciate email as much as the next person. It is quick and effi cient and quite handy.

However, there are ad-vantages to getting a letter in the mail. Let me explain.

We have, in the family archives, several letters my grandfather wrote to the young lady he would even-tually marry – my grand-mother Belle. She was well and truly named; Papa claimed forever that she was the prettiest girl who ever came out of Union County. His letters to her were el-egant, humble, and very proper: in them, he called her “Miss Petree.” (It was a different time: as long as she lived, when she spoke of him to friends and neigh-bors, she referred to him as “Mr. Dunn.”)

I also have one letter written to Belle by one of her 10 brothers. It was a letter of admiration and ap-preciation. I have consid-ered giving it to one of his direct descendants, but so far, have (selfi shly) kept it.

Mother still has all of the correspondence she ex-changed with Daddy before they were married. She was working at Miller’s Depart-ment Store and he was in school at Lincoln Memo-rial University. Those let-ters are fi led, in order, in a cedar keepsake box. I have not read them, considering them private and personal.

When my brother was born (not long before the end of World War II), Daddy sent telegrams to relatives announcing the birth. At least one of those documents was sent back to Daddy and Mother as a keepsake. It gave Warren’s name, date of birth, birth

The Written WordAlthough I have much to write to you, I would rath-

er not use paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

(2 John 12 NRSV)

weight, then remarked, “Mother and son are fi ne; father’s condition question-able.” That telegram is still in the family archives.

When I was born three years later, Daddy made long distance phone calls. It was the new technology, very up-to-date. However, I have always felt a little cheated, because I didn’t have a telegram I could hold in my hand. I don’t know what Daddy said in those phone calls, and I would love to know!

We also have all of the war correspondence from Daddy’s younger brother, who fought in the South Pa-cifi c, and who was in a fox-hole on Okinawa when he learned of Warren’s birth.

All of these are docu-ments of a different time, of a different world. They are, however, historical docu-ments, even if they are a family history and not of great importance to anyone else. They are a little chunk of our story, and that is, af-ter all, what history is all about: story – yours, mine, ours, our country’s, our world’s, our universe’s story.

I encourage you to fi nd out your story, your his-tory. Ask your parents and your grandparents to tell you their stories. Check out old family Bibles; look at the pages between the Old and New Testaments; frequent-ly there are pages there on which to record births, marriages, and deaths. Go to the McClung Historical Collection, 601 Gay Street. It is part of the Knox County library system, and an un-imaginable wealth of genea-logical information. Go to Ancestry.com.

Learn your stor y!

By Wendy SmithThe Second Annual Faith-

Walk, “Knoxville Steps Up for HIV,” was held down-

town re-cently. Ap-proximately 85 people p a r t i c i -pated in the walk, which benef it ted Samar itan M i n i s t r y , the National

Week of Prayer for the Heal-ing of AIDS and Smoky Mountains Lions Charities. The event was hosted by Im-maculate Conception Catho-lic Church.

FaithWalk is an attempt to engage the faith and HIV/AIDS communities, says Wayne Smith of Samaritan Ministry of Central Baptist Church of Bearden.

In many ways, life has improved for HIV patients. Patients are less likely to struggle fi nding jobs and housing, he says. “People have a better understanding of how you get HIV.”

Central Baptist members Laura Smith, Eli

Stryk, Ted Stryk, Larkin Bristow, Kent Bristow,

Stacey Bristow and Maria Bristow walk on

Gay Street during FaithWalk. Photos submitted

Greer Roberts participates

in the recent FaithWalk,

which was held in

conjunction with World

AIDS Day.

FaithWalk steps upfor AIDS awareness

But he still hears stories of local patients who expe-rience bias from hospitals and family members. “Peo-ple still die from it, and pa-tients still suffer from isola-tion and stigma. We’re not where we need to be.”

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the new year in their new church building, approxi-mately 75 people joined in fellowship at the church off Carmichael Road in West Knoxville. The Catholic church for those who want to hear mass in Vietnamese has been around for more than 15 years but now has its own church building.

Father Hoan Dinh presided over the mass at the church. In addition to celebrating the new year, Father Dinh said January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God and is a holy day for Catholics. He said the Vietnamese congregation is happy to have a permanent home with room to grow.

(For more on Church of Divine Mercy,

see the story on page A-1.)

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By Betty Bean The last day of school

before the Christmas break, the big crowd in the Vine M i d d l e School au-d i t o r i u m was get-ting rowdy while wait-ing for the K w a n z a a

celebration to begin. Cos-tumed dancers, poets and players scrambled up to the stage as the decibel level rose. The master of ceremonies took the mi-crophone and asked for at-tention. He wasn’t playing.

Remarkably, the crowd hushed.

Afterward, Reggie Jen-kins explained how he knew what to do:

“A few people asked me to try to help calm the crowd down, and for me, it’s just the way I was raised – kind of like when I was growing up in church. Even if nobody’d been in my ear, I was going to say something because a lot of people put their heart and soul into that program and sometimes you just have to remind folks of where they are, who they are and what they represent.”

A graduate of the Univer-sity of Tennessee with de-grees in math and statistics, Jenkins learned the value of hard work and respecting his elders from his father, who owned a barbershop.

“I watched how he ran the shop – ‘Come in, take your hat off, pull your pants up.’ He was like the community father,” said Jenkins, whose volunteer work has made him well known at Vine and other schools in the heart of the city.

His day job is in sales, but his heart is in the work he does with young people –

primarily with boys – as ex-ecutive director of UUNIK Academy, a mentoring pro-gram for young African-American males. The name is an acronym for the seven principles of Kwanzaa, which promote unity and responsibility among fam-ily, friends and community.

“I have always had a passion for young people,” Jenkins said. “I worked in the school system for three years after I graduated, and after that at the YMCA. I al-ways dreamed of having my own after-school program – so many youth programs are just babysitting and don’t get a lot of these young people ready for the world. I just really wanted some-thing where children were really getting something.”

He started UUNIK Academy in September 2003. It operates 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.

UUNIK Academy spon-sors College Careers Week for Vine students in February, a “Calling all Males” citywide conference in the fall and a “Calling all Females” confer-ence in the spring.

“My 5-year goal is to run Monday through Saturday. We work on academics, en-richment and counseling. We teach them how to cor-rectly act out and come up with solutions. We go on fi eld trips and try to fi nd out what their talents and inter-ests are, outside of athletics. We deal with cultural en-richment, history, and build on that for self esteem and self respect. We emphasize personal etiquette.”

Parenthetically, Jenkins helps kids whose career dreams involve professional athletics work on backup plans.

“I break that reality down,” he said. “I’m not going to deter them, but

UUNIK Academy

teaches respect,

discipline

To contact Reggie

Jenkins, go to http://

uunikacademy.org or

email uunik.academy@

gmail.com or call 865-384-

4475.

Jenkins

I inform them that in the past 40 years, only one person from Knoxville (Elston Turner) has made it to the NBA and only 15 to the NFL.”

Jenkins and his wife of 17 years, Kamesha, have a 7-month-old son, Jabari.

By Sara BarrettStudents at Karns El-

ementary School collected new toys since the fi rst part of November for children in their area who may otherwise go without any at Christmas. Karns Volunteer Fire Depart-ment distributed the toys to families within its service area. It has done so since shortly after the department was started in 1978.

This is the fi rst year the school has participated; students at Amherst and Hardin Valley elementary schools have participated in previous years. There were also bins for donations at

both the Food City on Mid-dlebrook Pike and Hardin Valley Road.

Toys, books and games were all accepted.

“We receive a lot of phone calls from this area,” said Karns Volunteer Fire De-partment representative Kelley Grabill of the request for assistance at Christmas-time.

The toy drive at Karns Elementary was very suc-cessful, according to faculty member Dona Bean, who said she had to empty the tops of the bins in order to make room for more toys the students brought in.

Karns Fire Department engineer Nathan Patterson, students

Nathan Welden, Arabella Black and Abigail Weldon, fi refi ghter

James Tolliver, (back) fi re department representative Kelley

Grabill and student Caleb Cleghorn. Photo by S. Barrett

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A select group of middle school band students from all over East Tennessee were chosen as members of this year’s regional junior clinic. The clinic is considered try-outs for two regional bands, Gold and Silver.

West Valley Middle School had 21 students who tried out, some of whom were hand-picked by their instructors. Half made the Gold band and half made Silver.

Students from West Valley who participated in this year’s junior clinic band are (front) Nikhil Patel, Ben Collins, Morgan Post, Colin

Patton, Gage Pagodin; (second row) Emily Chung, Hibah Javed, Josh Duzan, Megan Malone, Caris Morgenegg; (third row) Justin

Edaugal, Audrey Plescia, Kelsey Shockley, Samantha Raymond, Sheyenne Johnson; (fourth row) Ethan Gossage, Aaron Lively,

Tyler Chan, Travis Roberts, Garrett Coppock, Brandon Jacoby. Not Pictured is Ryan Petersen. Photo submitted

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Sara Barrett

Participants who made the cut performed at Oak Ridge High School on Dec. 7, the bands’ only perfor-mance.

Musical selections for both Gold and Silver includ-ed a range of classical mu-sic, and the bands had only a day and a half to rehearse together before the offi cial performance.

Jennifer Jacoby, moth-er of WVMS student and Gold band member Bran-don Jacoby, said in general band helps build character, but being in the regional bands kicks things up a notch.

“(Regional band) gives them a whole new taste of music and a whole new ap-preciation of the arts,” said Jacoby.

“They’re more challenged than in the regular band program. Music in general is a totally unique experi-ence, and it exposes them to an experience away from testing. It is very rewarding for the kids to work so hard and perform the pieces re-gionally.”

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for the stroke of midnight for members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville on New Year’s Eve. Approximately 50 members gathered in the back room at Naples restau-rant at 5 p.m. so they could be ready to count down to the New Year – at 6 p.m.

“We welcomed in the new year with a toast to our Ro-tary partners in Hungary,” explains Townes Osborn. “This is our 11th annual New Year’s Eve party at Na-ples. Every year we toast our international partner clubs in Hungary and South Af-rica. The toast to Hungary is at 6 p.m., when it is a new year there.”

The party has given birth to the Unicum Society,

named for the traditional drink that is found in most Hungarian homes. “Uni-cum is an elixir that every home in Hungary keeps on hand because it helps one digest the rich Hungarian food,” says Osborn, adding, “but the taste of Unicum is an ac-quired taste.”

The toast isn’t easy for newcomers as the Rotarians take a drink of Unicum and yell, “Egeszegedre,” which roughly means “Cheers! Here’s to your health” in Hungarian.

The Hungarian connec-tion has a serious side. The club has partnered with the Hungarian Rotary Club in Mateszalak for 18 years on humanitarian projects. In

October, for example, Ro-tary Club of Knoxville col-lected $5,000 to send to the Mateszalak club for them to

buy Christmas gifts for the children in a near-by orphanage.

Knoxville Rotary also partners with two clubs in South

Africa, and they toasted the New Year in their honor as well. The toast was with Amarula, which goes down much smoother, says Os-born.

A new toast was added this year to the Hungarian portion of the celebration. It is a mixture of the Unicum, which is made by the Zwack company, and Jack Daniel’s whiskey. “We call it Zwack Jack,” says Osborn, “and when we drink it, we raise

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as we work together on hu-manitarian projects.”

Farragut West Knox Chamber ready to meet/greetAfter a brief break at the

end of December, the Farra-gut West Knox Chamber of Commerce has a full sched-ule of networking events and ribbon cuttings on the

list for January. Members and prospective members are invited to bring a stack of business cards and join in the fun. Check www.far-ragutchamber.org for more

information.Thursday, Jan. 9, 5 to

6:30 p.m. – Networking at Milestones Event Center / Click Funeral Home, 11909 Kingston Pike.

The old post offi ce and bait shop on Knox Lane behind the Fountain City McDonald’s are gone.

Coming soon is Speedy Cash, a title and install-ment loan company, being built by HL Construction.

Nancy Whittaker

Back to work after holidays

Last week I met the folks at Bluewater Laundromat, 3721 N. Broadway. This “fu-turistic” laundromat claims the largest Speed Queen washers in Tennessee.

The washing machines range from the “double,” which holds 20 pounds of laundry, to a 100-pounder which holds the equivalent of 10 loads of laundry.

These are the biggest washers I’ve seen.

Info: www.bluewater-laundromat.com or 247-6230.

Williams

Ken Tuggle

Brian Mitchell

■ Rossini at Fountain City BPALarry Rossini, direc-

tor of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, will speak at the Fountain City Business and Professional Association at noon Wednesday, Jan. 8, in the fellowship hall of Central Baptist Church. He will discuss business check-up, new license require-ments and new micro loan opportunities.

Lunch is $10, fi rst come fi rst served.

■ Williams getsregional honorRebecca Williams, direc-

tor of sales and market-ing at the Knoxville Conven-tion Center, was named Supplier of the Year by the East Tennessee

Meeting Professionals.

A Knoxville native, Williams is a UT graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

■ Tuggle promotedKen Tuggle has been

promoted to Rural/Metro bat-talion chief in Knox County.

Tuggle began working for Rural/Metro Fire

Department in 1998 as a reserve and was hired as a full-time fi refi ghter in 2000.

■ Mitchell promotedMesser Construction Co.

has pro-moted Brian Mitchell to project manager in the Knox-ville offi ce. He was previously a project engineer.

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promise is to be the best at serv-ing our cus-tomers, one opportunity at a time. The bank was found-ed in 1864 when Abra-

ham Lincoln was president, and employees have been practicing that promise ever since – even if it wasn’t written down. No fi nancial institution could endure for a century and a half without dedicated employees earn-ing the trust of generations of customers.

Next March, First Ten-nessee will celebrate its 150th anniversary. We’re planning an array of events to honor our customers, em-ployees and communities. It’s not every day that an in-stitution reaches that mile-stone, and we want to show our pride in our history. Galas, historical displays,

News from First Tennessee

First Tennessee Bank: 150 years of service

Fansler

signs and banners, an ad-vertising campaign, a book and more will proclaim that First Tennessee is Tennes-see’s bank, as it has been for 150 years.

First Tennessee is the largest bank headquartered in the state, and thanks to our customers, we’re staying number one. First Tennes-see has the leading market share for all of Tennessee, according to the latest Fed-eral Deposit Insurance Corp. fi gures. Our deposits grew faster than the market statewide and in each of our three regions in Tennessee.

Such success might not have been foreseen when we were founded. But through the years we expanded into most markets in the state. In East Tennessee, mile-stones included the acqui-sition of United American Bank in 1983 and Valley Fidelity Bank in 1991. Most recently we completed the conversion of Mountain Na-tional Bank to First Tennes-see, giving us an expanded presence and new options

for our customers.Our legacy of trust and

service gives us perspective. First Tennessee was found-ed when the American Civil War was raging, and we’ve served customers through World Wars and social up-heaval, through the Great Depression and the Great Recession. First Tennessee has been a part of the state’s history. We’ve provided fi -nancial services, jobs and community investment. We’re First Tennessee and we put Tennessee fi rst.

We are very proud of our strong presence in East Ten-nessee. We will continue to invest in the communities we serve, supporting edu-cation, economic develop-ment, health and the arts. When our communities prosper we do too. That’s been our guiding principle for 150 years and will be into the future. At First Ten-nessee, we’re ready for our next 150 years of serving customers, one opportunity at a time.Pam Fansler is president, East Tennessee

Region, First Tennessee Bank.

News from Moxley Carmichael

The Moxley Carmichael MethodBy Cynthia Moxley

Many East Tennesseans are planning for the New Year, setting resolutions to save money, lose weight, kick a bad habit or cross

a few items off bucket lists.Jan. 1 marks a time for

planning in the public rela-tions industry as well. At Moxley Carmichael, we’ve been working with clients for weeks to prepare for 2014. Our clients have big goals and need plans to achieve them.

We recommend prepar-ing a strategic communications plan for the year that outlines not only your company’s objectives but also the strategies and tactics you’ll use to get your messages out and en-hance your reputation.

Whether we’re working with businesses in health care, professional services, educa-tion, consumer goods or nonprofi t, we start with a few key areas. Any local business can benefi t from focusing on these recommen-dations as we kick off 2014.

Branding: What is your brand? Is it con-sistent? Recognizable? Effective? Consider gathering your executive team for a brand-ing session focused on defi ning – or redefi n-ing – your brand. Make sure your strategy is effective in representing your organization to customers, potential customers and other stakeholders.

Digital presence: How are you using technology and digital media to promote your business? Examine your website, blog, email marketing and social media pages. Do they refl ect your brand and use consis-tent messaging? Companies are expanding their digital presence in 2014 with strategic

moves like adding a mobile-friendly website or using Facebook advertising.

Media and presentation training:When you talk to local news outlets or civic groups about your business, how effective will you be? Take time to train key staff to serve as successful spokespersons whose messages resonate – while also providing value so they’re invited back.

Crisis communication: Update your crisis plan so your team is ready to handle emerging situations. Fast, accurate and effec-tive communication is critical in overcoming a crisis if your organization faces one in 2014.

In 2013 Applebee’s fi red an employee for posting a photo to Reddit showing the sales receipt of a pastor who refused to pay the automatic 18 percent gratuity the restaurant had added, and thousands fl ooded Apple-bee’s Facebook page in her support.

Applebee’s posted impersonal responses and was accused of deleting negative com-ments and blocking users. This defensive approach angered customers and tarnished Applebee’s reputation.

In contrast, when an insensitive tweet about President Obama’s grandmother was accidentally posted to the KitchenAid ac-count instead of the employee’s personal Twitter page, the head of the KitchenAid brand started tweeting 15 minutes later to apologize and assure followers that the staff-er would no longer tweet for KitchenAid.

The immediate, honest approach was well received, and damage was minimized.

With our top PR tips, you can enter 2014 with a purpose and a plan. We love doing business in East Tennessee, and we know those who work and own companies here share that love. We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.

C. Moxley

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By Rachel M. Hannon, Grace Christian Academy

teacherThe coming of a new year

traditionally brings a time for refl ection and resolution. It is a stepping stone in one’s life: an opportunity to appreciate the blessings and accomplishments of the past and determine to make the future better. The lists of New Year’s resolutions are often long, but contain a common theme of personal improvement. Most of us resolve to lose weight, exercise or learn something new.

As a classroom teacher of high school freshmen and seniors, I wonder how teenagers view the new year. First, one has to understand the signifi cance of a new year for a high school student. To them, it is more of a transition than an end. The school year is half over. The pressures

of midterm exams are past and students have had several weeks to relax. With the start of a new semester everyone has a perfect grade in every subject. Students are focused on the distant approach of summer, knowing that May represents the end of the year for them. Perhaps the best analogy shared by one student is that New Year’s is like halftime. You know where you stand based on the fi rst half, but you now have an opportunity to pull ahead or stage a comeback.

For seniors, the new year is the beginning of the end. It is now time to complete the FAFSA (Federal Student Aid

Form), commit to a college and make concrete plans for the future. This time of year brings a sense of excitement as an

important chapter in their lives is about to close. It is also a time of anticipation of having to face the unknown. Ultimately, the

start of the year allows an opportunity to fi nish strong. One senior stated that now is the “time to go as hard as you can. It’s a chance to start proving who you really are.”

When asked about their resolutions, the responses of my students were varied. However, there was one underlying theme. While adult resolutions focus on self-improvement, the vast majority of my students’ resolutions concerned others. To the students, New Year’s is an opportunity to

decide to do something different, make improvements and correct mistakes. For them, this is a time to improve relationships with parents, siblings, classmates and the Lord. Many teenagers resolved to do something good—give of their time, encourage a friend or help someone in need.

It seems adults can learn a lot about what really matters from a teenager. Looking at our list of resolutions and plans, maybe it is time for us to look out and up instead of in. As one student put it, “A new year means a new start, a fresh beginning. The old year is gone, and no matter what you do, you can’t get it back. The good times, the bad days, the experiences, are in the past. New Year’s is a time to refl ect,to laugh, to cry, but also to move on.”

NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon MorrisIn the spirit of Christmas

cheer, a handful of our middle school students had the opportunity to spread some peace, love and joy to a group of students from Huntsville , TN., on Dec. 5.

For the last four years, stu-dents at Grace Christian Acad-emy have been involved in a co-operative effort with Mission of Hope to assist children from im-poverished backgrounds during the Christmas season. This year, a group of eight students from the Middle School Worship Arts

class, along with four staff mem-bers, went to Huntsville School to help in this annual project.

Once the students arrived on-site, they helped unload the delivery truck and unpacked dozens of boxes of toys, which were designated by age group. The gymnasium at Huntsville was fi lled with more than toys, as the GCA students performed two short programs for the kids during the day. In addition, the students played games with the children, led the boys and girls in the singing of Christmas carols, and spent time encouraging each child as they met with them and

spoke to them. GCA staff and students, along

with other volunteers, walked with the Huntsville students through the Christmas “store,” giving these children the op-portunity to choose two toys. It was a tremendous opportunity to interact with students, some of whom have come from a very diffi cult background. It was an inspiring way to kick off the Christmas season and to show the love of Jesus to our neighbors north of us through a spirit of giving. We look forward to tak-ing part in Mission of Hope again next year!

Grace middle schooler Dexter Reasons (right) helps a stu-

dent at Huntsville School choose items from Mission of Hope. Photo by Teri Rash

Grace students help Mission of Hope

Soccer balls for HaitiBy Julie Pointer

Why would a group of 72 third graders willingly choose to eat black beans and rice in-stead of pizza? If it means be-ing able to provide soccer balls for kids in Haiti who have noth-ing to play with, it’s an easy choice for the 3rd graders at Grace Christian Academy.

The Thursday before Thanksgiving, GCA 3rd grad-ers brought in their $4 like they always do to pay for their pizza lunch, but this day they gave their money to provide for kids in Haiti. They were able to talk to a college student from Haiti to learn more about his coun-try. They experienced a typi-cal Haitian meal to replace the normal pizza lunch.

The 3rd grade classes are excited about the partner-ship they have developed with Blackmon Pediatrics and Har-vest Field Ministries this year to provide supplies for a joint

mission effort in Haiti. In Sep-tember, they collected boxes of medical and dental supplies for the clinics in Haiti.

After the Friends and Fam-ily Campaign at GCA, in which students began asking for do-nations to help fund the new playground at Grace, their thoughts turned to their part-ners in Haiti. Students realized that children there did not have anything to play with, so they stepped up to meet the need. Sixty-one MacGregor soccer balls were purchased with do-nations from “Have a Ball for Haiti.” Many students brought in above and beyond the $4 they were asked to donate. They were so excited when the balls arrived and they got to see all that their sacrifi ce had provid-ed for others.

When asked if their sacrifi ce that day was worth it, the re-sponse from most was, “When can we do it again?”

Grace 3rd graders Lillie Peterson and Ian Setzer

enjoy a lunch of rice and beans instead of pizza

to help buy soccer balls for children in Haiti. Photos by Kim Giles

Grace 3rd graders Jake

Blankenship, Gracie Coff ey,

Hayden Whitehead, Marlee

Giles, Pierce Browning,

Maggie Blackmon, Sydney

Thompson and Ian Setzer

hold soccer balls that will be

sent to children in Haiti.

New Year’s refl ections

Grace teacher Rachel Hannon (standing) chats

with students Madison McMullen, Shelby Green,

Lori Lower, Morgan Jackson and Miranda Pratt. Photo by S. Morris

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Amy Carr did everything right.She took good care of herself;

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She says the doctor had been very comforting and explained that what the results showed could be an infection mimicking cancer.

“But my mind was racing, and I immediately began thinking about my husband and kids,” Carr says.

It was just too much to take in. She fainted.

“The nurses were right there with a Sprite, fans and cold towels,” she laughs.

Carr, now 49, is a living and breathing example of why every woman should take ownership of her health and listen to her own body. If she hadn’t, she might not be alive today.

Carr says she noticed a bumpy patch of skin on her breast in March 2011, just a couple of months after having a clear mammogram. When it was still there after her family’s spring break vacation, she reluc-tantly scheduled an appointment with her physician.

“He’s going to think I’m a worry-wart,” Carr says of her thoughts at that time. However, when her phy-sician saw that bumpy patch of skin, he was immediately concerned.

“He knew what he was looking at,” Carr says. “His response was, ‘I’m very concerned. I’m going to send you to where I send all my tough breast patients.’ ”

An ultrasound followed at Park-west Comprehensive Breast Center, then an MRI at Parkwest Medi-cal Center. At fi rst, all indications were that Carr had cancer in her left breast, but further testing revealed cancer in both breasts.

Biopsies showed that Carr had Infi ltrating Ductal Carcinoma, one of the most commonly diagnosed breast cancers. She had stage III on the left side, stage II on the right. A PET scan at Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center later revealed that the cancer had also reached her lymph nodes on the left side.

Breast cancer had already struck Carr’s family twice in her lifetime, so she had always taken the threat seriously and was judicious about annual mammograms. She’d even taken the initiative to undergo ge-netic testing, which showed she did not have the gene that would make her most vulnerable.

Still, long months followed as Carr went through the process that has become so familiar to so many, undergoing treatment and surgery for breast cancer. Carr held on tightly to her faith in God and to her family. She continued to work,

stayed involved in the day-to-day lives of her husband and children, and continued to sing in her church choir.

Carr was determined to walk in faith, not fear.

In the middle of the time period during which she underwent che-motherapy, Carr performed a song written by her music minister titled “Trust.” To show their support, the ladies of the choir wore scarves on their heads, just like Carr, and the men donned pink ties and shirts.

“It was an emotional day, an ex-perience that my family and I will never forget,” Carr says.

Carr endured two separate, six-month rounds of chemotherapy during her 18 months of treatment; however, she says she never looked at chemo as poison. She never hesitated about having the double mastectomy either. “The fear of living with cancer in my body was much greater than the fear of living without ‘my girls,’ ” Carr says of her breasts.

But the process of fi ghting can-cer can exhaust even the heartiest of souls. She remembers a low point

ment. It was an incredible time of refl ection, gratitude and celebra-tion.”

“Now, I just take my little white pill every day and return to Thompson Oncology Group every three months for blood work,” Carr explains. “If it resur-faces somewhere, I know they will do everything in their power to stop it again.”

Oncologist Daniel Ibach, MD, says having Carr as a patient in-spired everyone who came into contact with her at Thompson West, where she received her chemotherapy.

“Cancer is a fi erce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, and Amy Carr is truly one of those heroes.”

Carr had endured multiple sur-geries, chemotherapy, antibiotics and radiation. It was a hard fought battle, but she won. “I truly felt like God was showing me how to truly live, not how to die.”

Dr. Ibach says his staff was in-spired by Carr not only through her cancer treatment, but by how she openly leaned on her faith in God to get her through it. “I would leave the room inspired,” he says, “and she was the one going through che-motherapy.”

Carr says she learned so much on her journey that now she’s writing a book about it. When she talks to other cancer patients, she encour-ages them to be authentic, the best version of themselves they can be.

“Yes, I had a wig that I wore, but there were also times that I wore bandanas and ball caps,” Carr says.

“That’s when I learned some won-derful things,” she explains. Other survivors would notice her, introduce themselves and share their own sur-vival stories and encouragement.

“I want others to realize that there are many things cancer can-not take from you and to embrace the support from others,” Carr says. “No one should ever face a trial like this alone. I’m so thankful for my family and friends who walked this road with me.”

“I can honestly now say that I am thankful for the journey,” Carr says with a smile. “When I speak to ladies groups or churches, I remind them that it’s in the valley that the most beautiful lilies grow!”

while recovering from surgery in October 2011. It was Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“Everything on TV was pink,” says Carr. She hadn’t asked to be part of this pink world of breast cancer and wasn’t ready to be a part of this sisterhood. Messages were everywhere about the importance of early detection and having mam-mograms, something that she’d done without fail.

“I was confused and a little an-gry when I thought about how I had just had a clear mammogram, yet the cancer was there, and had been there for probably nine to 12 months,” Carr says. “I encourage women now to ask for an ultra-sound.”

Then, at a post surgery appoint-ment with her oncologist, Carr received news that seven of the 11 lymph nodes removed from her left side still tested positive for cancer. Six more months of a different che-mo would be in her future.

As if that were not enough, Carr had also developed a serious infec-tion in her chest wall, and the anti-biotics she was self-administering

through her port were not helping. Carr ended up having three more surgeries within 30 days. Lab re-sults fi nally revealed she had a very rare type of infection that would re-quire six months of a different type of antibiotic.

From January to June 2012, Carr took chemo and antibiotics every day, more than 2,500 pills in all. She then began 35 radiation treatments at Thompson Cancer Survival Center downtown over the summer. Carr had her fi nal treat-

ment Sept. 11, 2012.Through it all, Carr had con-

tinued her full-time job as a social worker, and she had stayed actively involved in the lives of her fam-ily and friends. She only stopped singing in the choir for a short time while recovering from surgery.

Cancer had been unable to defi ne her life. With the long journey be-hind her, she was ready to celebrate. When October 2012 came, Carr felt very differently about Breast Can-cer Awareness Month.

“I not only accepted being part of the pink sisterhood, I now em-braced it,” Carr says. “Twelve of my friends and family even joined me in doing the Komen Race for a Cure, just weeks after my last treat-

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“I felt like God was showing me how to truly live, not how to die.” – Amy Carr, cancer survivor

“Cancer is a fi erce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, and Amy Carr is one of those heroes.” – Daniel Ibach M.D.

Diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer

(both breasts at the same time), Amy

Carr refused to let cancer defi ne her life.

She continued to sing even while going

through chemotherapy.

Members of the choir at Carr’s church donned scarves and

the color pink in a show of support as she sang “Trust,”

a song written by the church minister of music. Carr now

tells her story to various groups, telling women “it’s in the

valley that the most beautiful lilies grow.”

To celebrate her recovery, Carr (short

hair, pink headband, behind the

poster) and a dozen of her friends and

family members participated in the

Komen Race for the Cure in 2012.

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Schedule your screening at ParkwestThe Parkwest Comprehen-

sive Breast Center is recognized as a Breast Center of Excel-lence by the American College of Radiology. It offers a com-prehensive, multi-disciplinary program, including screenings, breast cancer diagnosis, treat-ment and counseling.

The center supports individ-ual health needs in all ages and walks of life, including:

■ Digital mammography ■ Breast ultrasound ■ Steriotactic biopsy ■ Bone density screenings

In addition, the center has a designated Breast Health Co-

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“A woman shouldn’t wait until she’s in the middle of a crisis,” says center supervisor Aundrea Gregory. “She de-serves to be equipped with the

tools for optimum health, and we’re here to stand at her side through every age and stage.”

To schedule your mammo-gram, or to learn more about the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center, call 865-373-7010 or visit www.treatedwell.com/breastcenter.

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The paint crew that’s working upstairs doesn’t know who he is.

“He’s the nice guy who hired us to paint,” they say with grins and shrugs. They agree to Google him when they get home.

In this age of 15-min-ute, viral video fame, Doc Severinsen isn’t known to everyone. His friendly de-meanor and down-to-earth nature make him seem like a regular guy. But anyone who grew up watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson instantly recognizes the iconic bandleader.

When a 30-plus-year friendship with fellow trumpeter Cathy Leach blossomed into romance a few years ago, Doc moved to Maryville to be near her.

The two work together on many musical projects. They’ve appeared in Knox-ville churches in programs of “jazzed-up” gospel mu-sic. There’s always a rustle of excitement when Doc’s lanky, jean-clad fi gure strides to the front.

“People might be sur-prised to fi nd out that I

Carol Zinavage

Carol’s Corner

The doctor is inCathy Leach and Doc Severinsen discuss renovations for their farmhouse in Blount County.

don’t really dress ‘like that,’” he says, referring to his well-known habit of wear-ing fl amboyant clothes. He still glitzes it up for concert tours, but “I don’t own any suits. All I own is jeans, work shirts and cowboy boots, so if I play in church, I’m going to be wearing that.”

Both stay busy with in-dividual projects. Cathy, who was the KSO’s princi-pal trumpeter for 31 years, plays with “Stiletto,” an all-female brass ensemble. The group does master classes and concerts all over the country. Their CD, featur-ing Doc as special guest, is available on Amazon.com.

Doc’s quintet, the San Miguel 5, features music with a Latin fl air, including Span-ish guitar. He also leads The

Doc Severinsen in front of his Bount County farm-

house, built in 1840. Photos by Carol Zinavage

Doc Severinsen Big Band, which he says is “the fi nest big band I’ve ever worked with.” And, of course, he’s of-ten featured on his own. This past weekend he appeared with the Milwaukee Sympho-ny in a series of four concerts over three days.

At 86, he’s fi t, healthy and up to such a punishing sched-ule. “I’ve still got the mojo,” he says of his desire to per-form and delight audiences.

One current joint project isn’t at all musical. The cou-ple are restoring a rambling Blount County farmhouse built in 1840. “I am still try-ing to fi nd my way around this place!” laughs Doc.

Cathy’s looking forward to getting all the rooms squared away. The busy pro-fessor of trumpet and direc-tor of undergraduate studies at the UT School of Music sees great potential. “One

room will be my ‘cave’ where I can practice and work on sewing projects. And that’s Doc’s room at the end of the hall,” she says, gesturing to-ward a room literally stacked with trumpets.

In fact, there’s at least one trumpet somewhere in every room of the house.

Both enjoy cooking in the spacious farm kitchen, look-ing at the mountain views and caring for dogs Gracie

Doc (center) jokes

with the paint crew,

Herman DuBose

and Rob Rathbun,

as Cathy looks on.

Doc likes the resonance of the stairwells in

the UT music building.

and Muñeca.On a recent week-

day, they were headed for UT – Cathy to teach and Doc to practice. He enjoys practicing in the stairwell near Cathy’s offi ce because of the resonance. Those lucky enough to be in the building enjoy hearing that big bright sound, undiminished in over 70 years of playing.

“The trumpet is won-derful,” says Doc. “It’s the king of musical in-struments – that’s why they put trumpets on the highest level when you see an orchestra, because they’re the majesty!

“But you can be hu-miliated beyond de-scription. Playing the trumpet will keep you humble. About the time you think you’ve got it made, it’ll reach right up and bite you in the rear!

“If you’re not having such a good day and you don’t feel like you’re playing your best, you’ve just got to keep at it. I get kicked off the horse every darn day in my own practice.

“But you’ve got to get right back on. And I do!”

Stay tuned. Next week we’ll hear about Doc’s musical upbringing and his memories of Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show.Send story suggestions to news@

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YWCA Race Against Racism, 11:30 a.m., YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www.ywcaknox.com.

Wallace Coleman concert, blues harmonica, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14 (dis-count for JCA members, students and seniors); at www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and the door.

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Certifi ably Organic, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Knox County Master Gardener Stephanie Sayres and her husband, Tom. Free and open to the public.

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MLK Week: A Night With the Arts featuring the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 6 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

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