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ISSUE 16 VOLUME 33 FARRAGUT, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 • 1A
Photos by Michelle Hollenhead
Santa Claus had to make a few changes this year for Fox Run’s annual Children’s Christmas Party, but as depicted by Farragut Alderman Scott Meyer, and assisted by his jolly helper (and daughter) Sophie Meyer (far left), Santa was up for the challenge Saturday, Dec. 12, in front of the neighbor-hood’s club house. More than 70 children signed up in ad-vance to meet lovable St. NIck and receive gifts. Children en-joying the event included (above) Emily Shehane, 7; (above left) Emma Dombroski, 8, left, and Evie Gillman; and (near left) Alexa Knapp.
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The complex that includes Rick Terry Jewelry Designs and West Knox Chiropractic, 11320 Kings-ton Pike, won a Town of Farragut Holiday Beautification Award for “Best Commercial Complex.”
Santa’s ‘Run’
■ TAMMY CHEEK [email protected] of Farragut introduced
a festive concept to its Beauti-fication Awards this year by highlighting businesses that decorated for the holidays.
“The new ‘Fun Festive Far-ragut’ program had a wonder-ful first year,” said Brittany Spencer, Town Special Event and Program coordinator. “We are hoping 2021 to be even bet-ter.
As a result of the COVID-19
pandemic, Spencer said the traditional spring/early sum-mer Beautification Awards were substituted for “Fun Festive Farragut” for the holi-days.
“The Arts & Beautification Committee feel that it is im-portant because it is a project that involves both the busi-nesses/organizations and the citizens of Farragut,” she add-ed. “This was a small way we could encourage some festive
Virtue Road closingtil 2022
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‘Hale-fire:’ Town attorney answers BOMA, FMPC critics about Center■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected]
Farragut Town Attorney Tom Hale had some choice words to answer accusations of unfair prac-tices and illegal processes waged against elected of-ficials concerning the proposed Town Center, which is planned at the Biddle Farms old Kroger location at Kingston Pike and Brooklawn Street.
Charges have ranged from the Town “violating
Farragut ordinance, the Open Meetings Act and the Tennessee Public Notice requirement,” to treating developers in an unfair or biased manor.
Once again making it clear “everything is in order” in answering such accusations, which have been received by e-mailed comments or on social me-dia, Hale reviewed the Town Center process during the Thursday, Dec. 10, Board of Mayor and Alder-men virtual meeting.
“I’ve invited people who wanted to suggest we have
not acted in accordance with the law to have their attorney contact me, and nobody has contacted me,” he said.
Looking to clarify “some sort of misunderstanding about how the process works,” Hale said, “For the last 20 years I’ve heard that people seem to think the Town is in the development business; that the Town drives development processes.
■ STAFF REPORTS [email protected] Road will be closed to
through traffic beginning the week of Monday, Jan. 11. The closure will last for about 15 months until spring 2022.
Construction will take place in two phases. The first phase, scheduled for January through December 2021, is from Kings-ton Pike to Needlegrass Lane. The second phase, scheduled for September 2021 through March 2022, is Needlegrass Lane to Vista Brook Lane.
Detour signage and closure barricades will be in place. Homeowners will have access to properties throughout the project but should anticipate delays. A detour map is avail-able at townoffarragut.org/virtueroad.
Construction contrac-tor is Bell & Associates Construction.
Town holiday lights key partof new ‘Fun Festive Farragut’
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His new format provides “excellent opportunities for the staff to get some hours and an excellent opportu-nity for the restaurant to ... maybe get to some people who never tried us before,”
- Matt Beeler, Farragut restaurant owner, who is expanding his business in a special — and mobile — way. (Read story beginning on page 5A)
“She cried and said at least they would have a tree this year, but she had no idea how they would be able to have presents. ... There are gifts under that small tree so she can focus on caring for her child,”
- Cheryl Allmon, Volunteer Services director for a medical facility finding Christmas help for children. (Read story beginning on page 2B)
“It was crazy, it was a lot of fun. I’m thankful for all the support from all my friends and just the whole school. ... I told my close friends, ‘I’ll be back. ...’ It’s a really great feeling to finally be back,”
- Mason Motley, Farragut High School senior, about a special night at FHS in early December. (Read story, see photos on page 1B)
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The grant differs from oth-er grants in that no money changes hands, and the proj-ect is completely constructed, designed, engineered and in-stalled by and through the BlueCross BlueShield Foun-dation. It will be completed by the foundation’s build partner, Chattanooga-based PlayCore.
“It will be a great amenity for the com-m u n i t y . We’ve been wanting an i n c l u s i v e playground for some time, and the area be-hind Town Hall will be a convenient, central loca-tion,” Town Mayor Ron Wil-liams said.
“We’re so pleased that BlueCross has chosen to invest back into Farragut in this way. This new pocket park, along with the future development of public walking trails at Red Mill Dam, will provide inter-esting, new fitness opportuni-ties to the community in addi-tion to our four major parks.”
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■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected] been selected as one
of 10 statewide recipients of the BlueCross BlueShield’s Healthy Places project, Town of Farragut will receive a $750,000 all-inclusive play-ground in 2021.
Officials were notified ear-lier this month of the award, following up from an August grant application the Town Board of Mayor and Alder-men approved, which had been written and submitted by Sue Stuhl, Town Parks & Rec-reation director.
The playground will be lo-cated behind Town Hall as the grant’s criteria required a “clear and level area” with “unrestricted access for large construction equipment and materials,” Stuhl noted in a previous report.
“The addition of a fourth playground, especially one made with ramps for more inclusive play, is a wonderful amenity for the Town resi-dents and our visitors,” she added. “In addition to the play areas, our project will include a pavilion and fitness area so everyone can participate in the fun.”
Of the six design options, Farragut chose to pursue the “Thrive and Play” design “be-cause it provides a fully-inclu-sive play area (one of the goals of the Town’s Capital Invest-ment Program); swing and freestanding play area; fitness station for teens and adults; and a small pavilion with pic-nic tables,” Stuhl added. The site also has parking readily available and restrooms.
KCSOreports• At 11:44 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 20, a Knox
County Sheriff’s Office unit responded to a Vista Terrace Way residence in regard to a possible burglary. Victim/complainant said about 2 a.m., Saturday morning, Dec. 19, some-thing woke her up, but she was unsure what it was. She advised she fell back asleep, and the next day she noticed some items missing from her apartment. Total value of loss was listed at $240. Victim/complainant noticed some scratch-es on her door, but was unsure if forced entry was made or if scratches were from a key.
Markings on her door did not appear to be from any forceful entry. She also noticed a tear in her nightgown that was in the living room. Victim/complainant said she is going through a bad divorce and thinks her soon-to-be ex-hus-band may have had something to do with it.
• At 2:09 p.m., Dec. 19, a KCSO unit was dispatched to Farragut High School, 11237 Kingston Pike, in regards to a criminal trespass investigation. Officer reported making contact with suspect/arrestee standing by the baseball field on school property.
Suspect was reluctant to provide her informa-tion. When directed to move to her vehicle, sus-pect began to walk away. When officer attempted to restrain the suspect, she pulled away. Officer drew his Taser X26P and gave verbal commands to the suspect to turn around and then place her hands behind her back. She refused to comply. The suspect took what the officer reported was “an aggressive stance” and stated, “I’ll f--- you up, I have one too,” and placed her hand in her back pocket. Officer reported giving the suspect more verbal commands to show her hands, but the suspect began to flee on foot.
Officer deployed his Taser and the suspect subsequently went to the ground and was taken into custody. AMR arrived on scene to remove the Taser probes from the arrestee. Arrestee was transported to Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility.
Officer made contact with Donald Dodgen, FHS athletic director/complainant, who advised the arrestee had been on the school’s track and in the batting cage on the baseball field, and was asked to leave the property several times but re-fused to do so.
• On Friday, Dec. 18, a KCSO unit respond-ed to a Hickory Wood Road residence in ref-erence to a burglary. Upon arrival, officer made contact with the victim. Walker stated she was away from her house today and used her phone to check her cameras.
She stated that while viewing the video, she observed her step-daughter and her two chil-dren in victim’s home. She stated she does not know how they entered the home, adding that while in the home suspect took two tableclothes. Victim is not sure if anything else is missing at the time of this report. Walker said she was unable to download the video but will contact ADT to provide a copy. Value of loss was listed at $20.
• At 3:26 p.m., Dec. 18, a complainant called called KCSO to file a report on a van-dalism at an Oran Road residence. She advised an unknown suspect knocked down her mail-box with an unknown object. Total value of loss was listed at $150.
• At 9:07 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 15, a com-plainant called KCSO Teleserve Unit to re-port a theft at a Port Charles Drive residence. Complainant advised she received an e-mail from what appeared to be a friend requesting gifts cards in the amount of $400 to be sent to them.
She advised after having sent the gift card numbers she contacted her friend, who in-formed her she had not sent any e-mail.
Knox County Sheriff’s Office Reports is a week-ly feature courtesy of KCSO officials who sub-mit reports as received from officers in Zone 401, which is Farragut and West Knox County.
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social distancing at the end of this year.”
This year, the following Beautification Awards went to:
• Homes: 105 Jamestowne Boulevard in Ward I, and 11130 Farragut Hills Blvd. in Ward II;
“This was the first time that individual homes could be in-cluded,” Spencer said. “Entries could be submitted by a friend or neighbor or self-nominated.
“This gave participating par-ties the opportunity to show off their decorations at a different time of year,” she added.
• Residential-subdivision entrances: Saddle Ridge sub-division;
• Religious institution: First Baptist Concord, 11704 Kingston Pike;
• Commercial retail/office: Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce, 11826 Kingston Pike;
Julie Blaylock, FWKCC pres-ident/CEO, was presented the award Tuesday, Dec. 15, dur-ing the Chamber’s Holiday Drop-in, Drop-Off event at the Chamber office.
“My first thought was, “Re-ally???” LOL,” she later stated in an e-mail. “It was not all something I was expecting, in part, because we provide the lights and have decorated our office for years now and also because we’ve been totally fo-cused on promoting our mem-
bers deals/specials, our ad-opted families and our Drop In Day event.
“But we were very flattered to be recognized,” Blaylock added. “We decided the $25 gift card we won was best included as a donation to one of our hol-iday families, which is what we did with it.”
• Commercial Complex:Rick Terry Jewelry Designs/ West Knox Chiropractic at 11320 Kingston Pike.
According to a press release from the Town, each winner received a $25 gift certificate and a Beautification Award sign.
“Thank you to everyone who helps spread holiday cheer with decorations and thank yous to those who participated by nominating their neigh-bors,” the Town press release stated.
“Farragut’s Arts & Beauti-fication Committee normally recognizes Farragut subdivi-sions, businesses, shopping centers and religious institu-tions for lush spring landscap-ing. But this year, the commit-tee chose to recognize holiday bling instead,” it further stat-ed.
While Spencer said the changes did not make the pro-gram any easier or more diffi-cult, “it was fun to look around Town to see all the different decoration styles for the holi-day season,” she added.
“We were just happy that there was so much participa-tion around Town.”
“Property owners come to us — it is not the Town going out trying to find a project,” he added. “It all depends on peo-ple to invest money on their property to make the thing go. Every project is different and has different processes.
“We have now received a proposal that the Town has been involved in, the Biddle farm proposal — the developer contacted the Town staff more than a year ago to start discuss-ing the process. The developer submitted a plan in March, so they had a plan on the drawing board.”
Saying the Board has been questioned about its “fair-ness,” Hale said fairness “goes both ways. We can’t have a plan that’s been submitted and diligently pursued — at great expense (to the developer) —
then all of a sudden say, ‘We just aren’t going to continue dealing with this plan anymore because somebody else might put in another plan.’
Concerning the possibility of a Town Center located on p r o p e r t y owned by, and fronting the home of, former F a r r a g u t Mayor Eddy Ford — the a c r e a g e of which f r o n t s K i n g s t o n Pike about a mile west of its intersection with Campbell Station Road — Hale said, “We have gotten word there might be another plan for a Town Center devel-opment. If we get that plan, it’s going to be treated fairly, just like every other plan.”
That alternate plan is from developer Doug Horne, owner of Republic Newspapers, Inc., parent company of farragut-press.
“Keep in mind, we have to deal with what is in front of us; we don’t know whether this plan on the board will be approved or not — all we can do take what they bring us and deal with in accordance with our processes,” Hale said.
“So, again, I don’t mind talk-ing about it, I’ve been wrong before,” he added. “But it doesn’t do any good for us to have a conversation with peo-ple that have already made up their minds about how they feel about it, and are not objec-tive.
“I assure you as I look around, at the people who volunteer their time to make this Town work, they are not adverse or inappropriate to anybody, and they treat everyone the same.”
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• I watched the Farragut (Municipal) Planning Commis-sion meeting of Dec. 17, and Vice Mayor (Louise) Povlin said that she had lived in New York and Washington, D.C., and that traffic in Farragut was not that bad. She said people should be willing to sit through more traffic light signals to have the new, walkable Town Center. I do not agree. The needs of the few do not outweigh the needs of the many. Traffic in Farragut is the single biggest issue with quality of life and public safety. I no longer want a Town Center; I am very much against this project. The Mayor (Ron Williams) and the aldermen said there would be very little increase in traffic — and now the vice mayor says that there will be (an increase). I am stunned. Please contact the may-or and aldermen and ask that the Town Center be voted down.
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■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected] hearing arguments for and against the
issue, Farragut’s Municipal Planning Commis-sion unanimously approved zoning ordinance text amendments associated with the Farragut Town Center at Biddle Farms project during its Thursday, Dec. 17, meeting.
It is the next step in an ongoing approval pro-cess for the project, which now will go before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen in January.
Several residents who have previously made their displeasure known reiterated their oppo-sition to the latest step via e-mailed comments read during the meeting.
With Town staff approval being noted among its recom-mendations, FMPC voted to approve the text amendment changes, which specifically addressed and clarified: that residential properties may be allowed on all stories of build-ings in the Mixed Used Town Center within the Planned Commercial Development district (which developer Budd Cullom has elected to pursue); that on-street parking is exempt from standard setbacks applied to parking lots; and amended the height of accessory buildings from 15 to 25 feet.
Mark Shipley, Town Community Develop-ment director, explained that vertical mixed use is when different uses are permitted within the same building (apartments/condos along with commercial, office or retail), whereas horizon-tal mixed use “is when you have different uses, but they are spread out horizontally, with a use specific to each building.”
While three Farragut residents argued against changing the text, Commissioner Noah Myers, who also is a well-known builder/devel-oper, asked Cullom to explain the economic re-alities of current development.
“Could you explain the financial ramifica-tions of trying to force-feed retail shops under-neath apartments?” Myers asked.
“Essentially, the issue becomes there is not a market for that amount of ground level retail,” Cullom said. “It also adds tremendously to ver-tical cost. In order to get parking, you would need to have structure parking, which is a fancy way of saying parking garages.”
Cullom also noted COVID-19 has played a role in further encouraging horizontal mixed use, “especially if you are in a smaller area, as op-posed to midtown Atlanta or Nashville.”
“I think that helps folks understand,” Myers said. “I was on the Steering Committee when we worked on the (Comprehensive] Land Use Plan) and we did a lot of public outreach. No doubt, we had a utopian, Norman Rockwell vision of shops downstairs and apartments upstairs … but developers have said … the dollars don’t work.
“I think your plan is the next best thing. I ap-preciate your persistence with this,” he added.
“Stick with it, I think it’s a good plan.”Vice chairman Ed St. Clair said “an example
right here in Town had vertical mixed use, but got no traction commercially to be able to get off the ground. We would all like to have something like that, but there is a reality we are dealing with here.”
“Craig Allen had that design ... but couldn’t get anybody to invest in it,” Town Mayor Ron Williams said. “That project went three years and it expired. It sounded really good, but he told us the vertical thing was not something for Farragut.”
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gator with Egerton McAfee Armistead & Davis, P.C., re-cently was named Knoxville Bar Association president. Out-going president, Hanson R. Tip-ton, a member of the Knoxville law firm of Watson, Roach, Bat-son & Lau-d e r b a c k , PLC, passed the gavel to Rice during a virtual KBA meet-ing on Dec. 11. Other o f f i c e r s chosen were: Jason H. Long, president-elect, Loretta Cra-vens, treasurer; and Catherne E. Shuck, secretary.
• J. Corbitt, Dylan Robinson and Natalie Saunders with Weichert, R e a l t o r s A d v a n -tage Plus in Knox-ville re-cently were named the top agents in the We-ichert Real-tors’ office for Novem-ber.
Corbitt was named the overall Top Agent of the Month while Robinson and Saunders were named the Top Selling and Top Listing agents, respectively.
• Stacy Strobl and Kenny Lynn, regional owners of EXIT Southeast, announce the opening of the second EXIT Real Estate Professionals Network, under the direction of Jesse Vose as an EXIT Realty franchisee, at 1778 W Lamar Al-exander Parkway, Maryville.
• Tennova Healthcare re-cently announced Turkey Creek Medical Center and North Knoxville Medical Cen-ter each were awarded an ‘A’ in the fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinc-tion recognizing the Tennova hospitals’ achievements in pro-
Molly makes baby history: ‘thawed’ embryo from 1992
at Farragut’s NED Center
Photo courtesy of Haleigh Crabtree Photography
Held lovingly by big sister, Emma Wren, Molly Everette Gibson was born Oct. 26, setting a world record for a thawed embryo re-sulting in successful birth — originally frozen in October 1992.
Hitting the road with food truck: Big Kahuna Wings■ TAMMY CHEEK tcheek@farragutpress
Matt Beeler is expanding Big Kahuna Wings to include a food truck, which will be one of the food trucks at Admiral’s Cor-ner, also known as 35 North, which is opening Thursday, Dec. 31.
Beeler said the food truck is a converted trailer he used for his spice business, which has been sitting at the restaurant (12828
Kingston Pike) since the Farra-gut location opened in 2014.
“With everything going on with business and the pan-demic, I felt like it was a good time to try to outfit that thing and get it on the road,” BKW restaurant owner Matt Beeler said. “I’m excited.”
He said the food truck pro-vides “excellent opportunities for the staff to get some hours and an excellent opportunity for the restaurant to not only,
obviously, get some more sales but also to maybe get to some people who never tried us be-fore.
“We’re going to start with 35 North (on the corner of North Campbell Station Road and Kingston Pike),” Beeler added. “We’re going to have it down there every weekend.
“In the spring, we’re plan-ning on going to downtown (Knoxville) and Central Filling Station (food truck park, 900 S.
Central St.). On Tuesdays, we will probably rotate in between some different areas, depend-ing on what (food truck) parks are open and what we can do.
Din Franklin, described by Beeler as “one of our loyal staff members,” is going to run the food truck operation.
“So, we’ll see what our op-portunities are, in different areas, with the food truck,” he added.
The food truck will offer
about half the items on the res-taurant’s menu.
“We will be offering our Big Kahuna Wings, our boneless,our tenders and our chips, al-ways available, no matter what day, what week,” Beeler said. “We will rotate our (other)items.
With the food truck, cus-tomers would not have to callahead an order — it’s all walk-
■ STAFF REPORTS [email protected] weeks after setting a
world record of facilitating its 1,000th birth, Farragut’s National Embryo Donation Center has made history yet again by overseeing the birth of a child frozen as an embryo nearly 30 years ago.
Molly Everette Gibson was born Oct. 26 to parents Tina and Ben Gibson, having been implanted at NEDC in Febru-ary. She was initially frozen as an embryo Oct. 14, 1992. She joins big sister, Emma Wren Gibson, who was born in 2017, but had been frozen alongside her sister as embryos, making
them full genetic siblings, not-ed a press release from NEDC.
“I think this is proof positive that no embryo should ever be discarded, certainly not be-cause it is ‘old,’” said Dr. Jef-frey Keenan, NED president and medical director. “This is also a testament to the excel-lent embryology work of Carol Sommerfelt,” who had thawed the embryo Feb. 10 for Keenan to implant Feb. 12. “She is per-haps the preeminent embry-ologist in the country when it comes to thawing frozen em-bryos.
“And of course it’s a testa-ment to how good God is and to His infinite goodness and love.”
Molly actually broke Emma Wren’s record, as the older sib-ling previously held the worldrecord for the longest-frozenembryo resulting in successfulbirth.
“When Tina and Ben re-turned for their sibling trans-fer, I was thrilled that the re-maining two embryos from thedonor that resulted in EmmaWren’s birth survived the thaw and developed into two very good-quality embryos for their transfer,” Sommerfelt stated in a press release. “It was even more thrilling to learn 11 days later that Tina was pregnant. Irejoiced with Tina and Ben as
Tammy Cheek
Julie Blaylock, left, Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce president/CEO, accepts a gift from Chamber member Angela Harvey with First Horizon Bank during FWKCC’s Holiday Drop-In, Drop-Off event at the Chamber office, 11826 Kingston Pike, Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Despite COVID-19 challenges,
■ TAMMY CHEEK [email protected] little to no expectations
as to how a changed Holiday Open House to Holiday Drop-In, Drop-Off format would be received, Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce presi-dent/CEO Julie Blaylock said the Chamber’s Dec. 15 event at the office went well, with about 40 coming in during the day.
“We have never done this before, but it was wonderful,” she said about visits to the of-fice, 11826 Kingston Pike. “We had a steady stream of people between 10 (a.m.) and 6 (p.m.). I couldn’t have been more pleased.”
Following the upsurge of COVID-19 cases, Blaylock and her staff wanted to create an event that would promote “social distancing” while still welcoming in and treating its members.
At the same time, members went above and beyond filling Christmas wishes for the 11 families adopted by FWKCC from the American Cancer So-
ciety, through the four major hospitals in the area, and Faith Promise Church in Farragut.
They delivered those gifts Thursday, Dec. 17.
“In providing these (gifts) for deserving families, we’re excited to be able to participate and support those in the com-munity that we serve,” said Tony Benton, Tennova Health-care CEO, after FWKCC deliv-
ered gifts to families at Turkey Creek Medical Center, which is part of Tennova Healthcare.
”Based on the response, es-pecially this year when there’smore need and especially whenwe didn’t know which busi-nesses would have the meansto support this project after ev-erything 2020 has thrown at us, it’s really just been absolutely phenomenal,” Blaylock said.
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• Pellissippi State Commu-nity College recently won a statewide friendly food drive competition this past semester, as PSCC crushed the “friendly” competition this se-mester by collecting an equiva-lent of 31,412 items in College System of Tennessee’s 22nd An-nual Food Drive Challenge.
Pellissippi State was the top institution in its tier during the month-long food drive, which ended Dec. 8. Students, faculty and staff collected the food items and cash donation for food pan-tries, food banks and organiza-tions in their communities.
This is the second year in a row Pellissippi State has collect-ed the most food items in its tier, but this year’s 31,412 items more than doubled last year’s 15,411.
• The University of Ten-nessee Medical Center has earned an “A” fall 2020 Leap-frog Group Hospital Safety Grade for protecting patients from harm and providing safer healthcare.
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we all anxiously waited for the arrival of their second child.
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Action photo courtesy of Carlos Reveiz/crfoto.com/student section photos by Alan Sloan
(Top) Showing loud support for cancer survivor Mason Motley, a Farragut High School senior basketball player, during FHS Senior Night Tuesday, Dec. 8, five seniors spelled out M-A-S-O-N in the FHS student section. From left are Cooper Simpson (M), Carter Nussbaum (A), Grant Rice (S), Camden Kuhn (O) and Bridges Coffey (N). (Above right) Motley, far right, joins the charged student section after scoring four points in a blowout Ads win against Heritage (in action, above left).
■ ALAN SLOAN [email protected] needs Bearden to fire
up the Farragut High School student section when you have the inspiring story of basket-ball senior Mason Motley?
Able to resume playing hoops after a more than two-year battle with cancer — oste-osarcoma in his left leg, need-ing crutches for more than a year — Motley was the Senior Night star Tuesday, Dec. 8, in Lynn E. Sexton Gymnasium.
With five student-section seniors paying a special alpha-bet tribute to M-A-S-O-N (see photo top right), Motley elec-trified the entire gym when he and his family — parents, Tim and Kristen Motley, and sib-lings, Carson and Cali — were introduced among the seniors recognized prior to the Admi-rals game versus Heritage.
“He’s come through so much; he’s grinded through everything. He’s just a great guy,” said senior Camden Kuhn, the “O” in M-A-S-O-N.
The section almost became unglued in the fourth quar-ter when Motley scored four points to help FHS win 63-32.
“It was crazy, it was a lot of fun,” the senior said after the game. “I’m thankful for all the support from all my friends and just the whole school.”
When first diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2018, “I told my close friends, ‘I’ll be back on the court,’” Motley said. “It’s a really great feeling to finally be back.”
“To fight through that for two years, and see where he’s at right now, it’s a testament to what kind of kid he is,” Admi-rals skipper Jon Higgins said.
■ ALAN SLOAN [email protected] — Having to play
tough defense to keep Johnson City Science Hill from exploiting its distinct size advantage and team quickness, Webb School of Knoxville’s Lady Spartans came close to a big hoops home victory.
Fighting from behind most of the game before grabbing a brief
lead late in the fourth quarter, Webb was crushed by a pair of late turnovers in a 42-41 loss to the Lady Hilltoppers (6-6) in Lee Ath-letic Center Saturday, Dec. 19.
Staying positive despite fall-ing to 2-4 record-wise, “We’ve had three games in a row (also losses to Cookeville and Upperman) and I feel like we’ve gotten better each time we’ve been on the court,” Shelley Collier, long-time Webb
head coach, said. “We’ve only had two practices in the last month be-cause we’ve been quarantined.”
Noting she has a “young team with only three seniors,” the coach added, “I’m proud of the way they are progressing.”
Shae Berry, a junior guard, led the Lady Spartans in scoring with 13 points. She fouled out with 25 seconds left in the final frame.
Sheelove Knowles, junior guard/
forward, scored 12 for Webb. Alexis Houser, Lady Spartans
freshman guard, hit a go-ahead three-point basket with 3:18 to play, scored four points in the final minute and grabbed a big rebound late. She ended with seven points.
Other Lady Spartans scorers were Kristen Sampson with four, Lily Hirsh and Madelyn Ladd with two each and Emery Green adding a free throw.
Rally pleases Lady Irish coachdespite close Catholic setback
Spelling out new start■ ALAN SLOAN [email protected]
A lot of things began to click for Concord Christian School boys basketball in the second quarter, which became sheer dominance in the second half, against district rival Christian Academy of Knoxville Mon-day night.
Leading by only a point, 13-12, after one frame, the Lions used hot perimeter shooting, crisp passing on fast breaks and half-court sets for easy shots, rebounding and sticky defense to earn a 77-50 home victory Dec. 21.
“We started off kind of slug-gish with our offensive sets,” said CCS head coach Michael Wilkins, whose team improved to 7-4 overall, 3-1 in district. “Once we were able to get into our offensive sets and get the right line-up out there, we were able to get some buckets through our offense ... and get points in the paint.
“We played a fast-paced game, a lot of up-and-down,” he added. “We were able to tighten up some things defen-sively. We rebounded the ball well, got good put-backs.”
As for earning open shots under the basket, “Our guards did a really good job of moving the basketball, rotating the ball and finding the low post (player),” Wilkins said.
“We also shot the ball well from outside.”
However, “The biggest thing tonight was our free throws — we shot a high free-throw per-centage,” the CCS coach said.
Individually, “Jose Ro-driguez played an awesome game,” Wilkins said about his junior point guard, who scored 12. “He handled the ball, distributed the ball and rebounded well.”
Student favoriteMotley beatscancer, playshoops again
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Pouring iton at CCSvs. a rival
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Sydney Mains, Knoxville Catholic freshman guard/forward, drives to the basket against Cookeville defender Jordan Gillies.
See CCS ROLLS on Page 6B
Collier
■ ALAN SLOAN [email protected] — Having already defeated
Greeneville and Elizabethton from Upper East Tennesee this season, Knoxville Catholic’s girls basketball team invited a talented squad from Middle Tennessee to KCHS last Friday.
Trailing Cookeville 25-9 midway into the second quarter, the Lady Irish began chipping away at the Lady Cavaliers’ lead in the final few minutes of the first half.
Catholic then pulled to within a point or two at three stages in the fourth quarter — the last with 1:47 to play — led by freshman guard/for-ward Sydney Mains (team-high 22 points) and
sophomore guard Jazmin Williams (17 points). But the Lady Cavs (7-2) took advantage of two
late KCHS turnovers and won 45-40 Dec. 18. “We just ran out of time. I thought we out-
played them in the second half,” KCHS head coach Travis Mains said, as his Lady Irish fellto 4-5. “We’re playing with freshmen and sopho-mores, for the most part, and they’re playingwith juniors and seniors, so this was a huge game for us.
“… We’re just thrilled to death to be able tocompete with good teams like this,” he added.
About Williams and Sydney Mains, “I thought both of them took advantage of the opportuni-ties they had (using) their strengths,” the coach said. “They stepped up and gave us a lift.”
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More than doubling ETCH goal,Rotary adds Adopt a Family
■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected] the doubling its toy goal, The Rotary
Club of Farragut is making the holidays truly shine for East Tennessee Children’s Hospital patients this season.
“Our goal was 150 toys — but we got over 300,” said Scott Bertini, ETCH Christmas Toy Drive co-chair, who along with RCF Service Team chairwoman Sonya Ford spearheaded the club’s inaugural drive. By the time the toys were delivered last week, Bertini said the toy count was 355.
He reported on the drive during the club’s regular Zoom meeting Wednesday, Dec. 9.
“In addition, the Rotary Club donated all of the fab-ric to the Interact Club at Hardin Valley Academy, where students have been busy sewing holiday bags that the toys will be distributed in,” he added.
Cheryl Allmon, Volunteer Services direc-tor for ETCH, was guest speaker for the Dec.
9 meeting. She expounded on Bertini’s report, saying each patient will receive a gift bag made by HVA, which she described as “large Christ-mas-themed pillow cases.
“Each bag is loaded with toys that have been donated, and during the night on Christmas Eve that bag is left at the foot of the patient’s bed so they know Santa found them, even though they are in the hospital,” she added.
In a separate interview, Allmon said, “Having the Rotary Club do a toy drive will have a huge impact on families who likely will not be able to provide Christmas gifts for their children. Just this morning (Friday, Dec. 11), the mother of a child in Intensive Care was exhausted and emo-tional when a small tree was brought into their room.
“She cried and said at least they would have a tree this year, but she had no idea how they would be able to have presents,” she added. “That mother won’t have to worry because do-nations like those provided by Farragut Rotary will make sure there are gifts under that small tree so she can focus on caring for her child.”
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Delivering toys to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital last week were, front row from left, Rotary Club of Farragut members Me-gan Belcher and Jim O’Brien, and Hardin Valley Academy Interact Club members Lauren Phillips and Riley Speas. Back row, from left, are Scott Bertini, ETCH Christmas Toy Drive co-chair; Club president Ed Jones; and Cheryl Allmon, ETCH’s Volunteer Ser-vices director.
First Farragut United Methodist Church, 12733 Kingston Pike, hosted its 13th Christmas Community Day from 1 to 3 p.m., Sun-day, Dec. 6, serving 128 families and 607 individuals from Knox, Loudon, Roane, Monroe and Sevier counties. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event took place outside the church building.Guests with reservations drove through the entrance and re-ceived groceries (228 bags were distributed), other necessities and toys from volunteers. Mr. and Mrs. Santa (church members Barry and Leslie Goss) greeted the guests and handed out candycanes.
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New FDCC record for ‘Boys & Girls;’ coats added
See TOY DRIVE on Page 5B
FFUMC Community DayCollecting a record number of toys for The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley during annual Fox Den Country Club Toy Drive this holiday season, FDCC went a step further by also collecting coat donations for those in need during a drive running from Nov. 1 through Thursday, Dec. 17. “Coats and toys combined, our members donated over 650 items — and there was just as many coats as there were toys,” stated Caroline Inman, FDCC membership director who has “proudly” organized this event for the last four years with Boys & Girls Clubs officials. “Working with The Boys & Girls Club on our annual Toy Drive is always the highlight of my year, but this year it was extra special to me. It has been an extremely difficult year for all, so it was nice to find this joy and hope.” Standing in front of the huge pile of toys and coats donated by FDCC members and other Fox Den residents, which were displayed around the Christmas tree in the Club’s lobby, from left, are Ryan Ott, FDCC general manager; J.R. Hill, a Boys & Girls Club representative; and Inman.
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■ TAMMY CHEEK [email protected] Slatas, Farragut Intermediate School el-
ementary counselor, recently was nominated for the national LifeChanger of the Year Award, sponsored by National Life Group.
“Our program celebrates those who are making a significant difference in the lives of students by ex-emplifying excellence, positive influence and leader-ship” and “recognizes and rewards K-12 educators and school employees across the country.” NLG’s website stated.
Slatas learned of the nomination earlier this month and discovered Natalie Choate, a fellow counselor at FIS, nominated her.
“I nominated Carol because she works so hard every day to change the lives of everyone she meets,” Cho-ate, also a counselor at Beaumont Magnet Academy, stated in a Dec. 21 e-mail. “I have never seen someone as dedicated and hard-working as she is.
“She is so good at what she does, whether that is helping a student work through anxiety, teaching a classroom full of children how to resolve conflicts or organizing a Career Day for all fifth-graders with a personalized schedule of speakers for each student based on their interests,” Choate added. “Not only does she go above and beyond to help her students at Farragut Intermediate School, but she is also always available to help her fellow school counselors and co-workers.
“She is energetic, generous, optimis-tic and kind. She is a life-changer with a bright and beautiful soul.”
“I was touched by Natalie’s kind words,” Slatas said. “ … She is at FIS with me one day a week and at Beaumont Magnet Academy the other four days.
“It is hard to mea-sure the impact you have on others when serving in this type of position,” the hon-oree added. “It means a lot to think that others feel I have made a positive impact on our community.”
As for goals, “I would like to bring more awareness to the importance of having good mental health and continue to provide resources to support not only our students but also our families,” Slatas said. “We need more elementary school counselors in our schools.
Slatas, who has been a counselor at FIS since 2014, started her career in education in 1999 as a high school history teacher in Bethesda, Maryland.
“While teaching I received a Master’s in Counseling
(degree) from Johns Hopkins University,” she said.“I’ve been a school counselor since 2005.
“When we moved to Farragut in 2010, I worked at Knoxville Christian School for a couple years before taking two years off to be with my young children,”Slatas added. “I joined Knox County Public Schools in 2014, working part time and then started workingfull time when the opportunity to work full-time at Farragut Intermediate became available.
Regarding the award selection, she said there is acommittee of prior winners and higher-educationprofessionals who decide the winners. Nomination deadline is Thursday, Dec. 31. Winners will be an-nounced in the spring.
According to the NLG website, the grand-prize win-ner could receive $10,000 to be split between a $5,000cash award and a $5,000 donation to the winner’s school/district.
Grand-prize finalists could each receive $5,000, which would be split between a $2,500 individual cashaward and a $2,500 donation to the finalist’s school/district. Additionally, there are other individualawards, such as Spirit, Spotlight and Capstone.
To help Slatas or any nominee win, comments maybe submitted, which are considered in the judgingprocess. “Each nominee has a profile online that peo-ple can visit and leave a comment,” Slatas said. Her link is at http://app.lifechangeroftheyear.com/nomi-nation_detail.cfm?NominationID=6198.
Slatas has been married for 16 years to Brian Sla-tas. They have two sons, Tyler, 13, and Jacob, 10.
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• University of Tennessee Arboretum trails in Oak Ridge will be open from 8 a.m. to dusk on New Year’s Day, Friday, Jan. 1. After holi-day food and football, UT Ar-boretum Society will be open for the opportunity to hike one
of the many trails at the UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Ave. You also can hike Saturday, Jan. 2, or Sunday, Jan. 3.
Due to COVID-19 restric-tions, this is not an organized group hike as normally takes place on New Year’s Day. Trail
maps will be available on the front of the kiosk by the Visi-tor’s Center to assist hikers in choosing the best hike for the day. The Nature Book Trail, featuring the book “Birds,” is a great choice for families with young children.
Difficulty level is dependent on individual fitness. Be sureto bring a water bottle to stayhydrated. No pets allowed.
For more questions on this program, visit www.utarbo-retumsociety.org or [email protected].
• The Visit Farragut team has designed a Farragut Din-ing Guide with listings for all the restaurants in Town limits. This guide details res-taurant service options, includ-ing takeout, delivery, outdoor seating, drive-thru and dine-in, along with contact informa-tion. Pick up your copy of the dining guide at Farragut Com-munity Center, Town Hall or the Pinnacle at Turkey Creek office, 11251 Parkside Drive. For an e-copy, go to visitfar-ragut.org. Several restaurants offer specials throughout the week, which are reflected on the website’s calendar. The dining guide will be updated every six months.
Since the Town of Farragut does not collect a property tax, sales tax is the largest percent-age of income to the Town. Remember, when you dine and shop in Farragut, you are helping maintain the wonder-ful amenities in Town, includ-ing the parks greenways, roads and more. Dining guides were delivered to all nine Farragut hotels and motels in an effort to increase visitor spending in the Town.
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Appointments can be made online at www.medicblood.org using the donate link. Appoint-ments also can be made by call-ing 865-524-3074. CCP donors will need to complete a pre-screening process and make an appointment.
• Coats for the Cold drive and distribution by Knox Area Rescue Ministries is under way. Drop off gen-tly used and/or new coats at any KARM Stores or Prestige Cleaners location. While all sizes are needed, of special need are children’s coats and adult XL and XXL coats.
• JTV invites the public to enjoy its incredible “Home for the Holidays” display featuring thousands of spar-kling lights and numerous holiday presentations at JTV’s West Knoxville headquarters, 9600 Parkside Drive, and is open every day from 4 to 10:30 p.m. through Monday, Jan. 4. Guests can walk the track and enjoy the festive atmosphere in a socially distanced way, which features three signature trees, a stunning life-sized Na-tivity display, two “tunnels of lights” and climb into Santa’s sleigh for terrific photo op-portunities. While there is no cost to enjoy the festivities, do-nations will go to three orga-nizations focused on helping youth, women and the elderly: Emerald Youth Foundation, Restoration House and Elder Care.
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RCF members Dan Bar-nett and Louise Frazier were among others who contributed $1,450 to that program.
“That fund is one that is re-ally near and dear to my heart; that fund was originally set up to take care of Christmas, but there’s a need for things all year long that you don’t budget for at a non-profit chil-dren’s hospital,” she added.
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Weigel’s makes holidays bright for 200-plus kids
■ STAFF REPORTS [email protected]. 5th would have marked
the 23rd anniversary of Wei-gel’s Family Christmas — a special event that normally brings together more than 200 local children in need and more than 300 caring volun-teers for a special Christmas shopping spree.
But this year — as is the case for most — Weigel’s Family Christmas is celebrating dif-ferently amid the pandemic.
“This has been a very special and meaningful event since we started it over 20 years ago,” said Kurt Weigel, training and recruiting director. “Our vol-unteers are often entire fami-
lies, coming together to give back to our community.
“We’re disappointed we can-not have the traditional event, but our volunteers and chil-dren’s health and safety are the priority,” he added. “We were not going to let the Pan-demic ‘Grinch’ steal the joy from these children, so we de-cided to send each child that would have shopped with us a gift card so they can still have the gifts they would have se-lected during our special day.
“We are grateful this was an option to ensure the joy for the children.”
Each year, the Salvation Army selects deserving chil-dren while Weigel’s organizes the event and provides fund-
ing. Since the program’s incep-tion in 1998, it has impacted more than 4,200 children. With the help of the Salvation Armyselecting the children, Wei-gel’s will send out $150 Target gift cards to more than 200 lo-cal children ages 5 to 8.
“I will miss this special day,seeing all the children and get-ting to shop with them” AnnPaul, a Weigel’s volunteer formore than 15 years, said. “But I am sure Weigel’s thought longand hard about how to still give these children a Christ-mas they might not otherwise have, plus keep everyone safe.
“I am so glad to know thatthey will be receiving gift cards to make their dreams cometrue,” she added.
Ringing, singing ‘Salvation’Brian Elton, a member of The Rotary Club of Farragut, was among RCF volunteers who began ringing the bell for the Salvation Army Kettle Drive in front of Kroger in Farragut Saturday, Dec. 12. Elton was accompanied by his son, Bennett, right, and family friend Joey Nieman, 12, who played his guitar and serenaded shoppers with Christmas tunes. Both Joey and Bennett are Far-ragut Middle School students.
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Pushed to the end by ‘physical, skilled’ York, Webb survives
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Juan Rodriguez, Concord Christian School junior forward, splits the CAK defense for a fastbreak lay-up as teammate Noah Gilder (11), a sophomore, reacts. The Lions pulled away in the second half for a 77-50 district home win Monday night, Dec. 21.
■ ALAN SLOAN [email protected] — Webb School of Knoxville’s weekend boys
basketball opponent came into its game in Lee Athletic Centerhaving earned just one win in its first five games.
However, by game’s end, York Institute of Jamestown was la-beled “well coached, very physical” and “skilled” that “made alot of shots” by Zach Gulmire, Spartans acting head coach.
This Division I-Class AA program fought off early Webb at-tempts to pull away, as the visiting Dragons made their move to catch the Green-and-White late in the third quarter and took thisgame down to the final seconds.
York missed a short lane jumper and putback attempt underthe basket that probably would have won the game, as Spartansophomore wing Lukas Walls — who scored nine points in thefourth quarter and a team-high 20 overall — grabbed a criticaldefensive rebound with just 2.6 seconds to play. His two subse-quent free throws sealed a 67-64 Webb victory.
“We held our poise offensively. We executed down the stretchto get that win at the end,” said Gulmire, team assistant coach filling in for absent head coach Ricky Norris.
“… We screened a little better and just used each other better to get the shots that we were looking for,” he added.
Gulmire also pointed out how his defense “took a couple of bigcharges late that were big plays; I think Owen Feld (senior wing)took one. That was a momentum swinger, as they were on a littlebit of a run.”
Webb, which improved its record to 6-1 overall, also had junior wing Luke Lentz and senior wing David Sanger reach double figures in scoring with 11 apiece. Feld added seven, followed by freshman wing Brandon Winton with six. Spartans Markeis Bar-ett and John Tulsma each scored five.
Juan Rodriguez, junior for-ward, led all scorers with 21 points. “Juan’s kind of our guy that gets it all done,” Wilkins said. “He did it tonight on de-fense and offense.
“Chase Morgan (junior post, 6 points), Will Morris (junior wing, 14 points), Noah Gilder (sophomore wing, 13 points) — pretty much everybody stepped up and did something good tonight,” he added.
Other CCS scorers were Harry Pennoyer with seven, C.J. Newton three and Jeremi-ah Fletcher’s free throw.
The Warriors fell to 3-4 over-all, 0-1 in district.
“They are a very strong, physical, athletic team,” CAK head coach James Johnson said. “They did a great job of running their offense.”
Denzel Jackson, junior guard, led the Warriors in scoring with 10, followed by guard Dante Oliver with nine, and guards Jaleek Harrison and Matt Murray each scoring eight. Evan Coffman added six points, while Luke Carter scored five and Jayden House-wright had four.
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Concord Brass performed Christmas Carols, homemade apple butter was sold, gift bags were presented to children and adults alike, and Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus also made an appearance. Church member Becky Bishop said the Fantasy of Trees organization gener-ously donated props for the event.
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