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By Betty BeanThe Tennessee Clean Wa-

ter Network and stormwater activist James McMillan are accusing Knox County of tak-ing retaliatory action against McMillan, who has long been one of the most vocal critics of local stormwater enforce-ment practices.

Last Oct. 28, James Mc-Millan and another citizen activist, Jamie Rowe, took Dwight Van de Vate for a ride.

Van de Vate was in his sec-ond month as interim head of Knox County Engineering and Public Works, and Rowe and McMillan, who have spent years documenting stormwater issues, wanted to show him construction sites where they believe enforce-ment has been lax.

Van de Vate later said he was shocked by some of what he saw.

On Dec. 24, McMillan’s father, Charles McMillan, re-

ceived a Notice of Violation from the offi ce of Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett ordering him to place a silt fence around a cell tower construction site on his property and threaten-ing him with a penalty of up to $5,000 a day.

On Jan. 13, Tennessee Clean Water Network direc-tor Renee Hoyos sent Bur-chett a letter questioning the county’s motives and priori-ties:

“TCWN is very disappoint-ed to learn that Knox County has recently chosen to use its scarce enforcement resources to issue a notice of violation (NOV) to Charles McMillan (see attached). The total area cleared for construction of a cell phone tower on the Mc-Millan property is less than a tenth of an acre. There is no evidence that runoff from this small site has reached a stream or otherwise caused any environmental harm.

“Even if this is the type of activity that could merit an NOV, it was not appropriate to send the NOV to the Mc-Millans. The construction of the cell tower is being done by an independent contractor to T-Mobile on land that the McMillans have leased to the cell phone company. Thus, the McMillans have absolutely no control over the work being done. This information was readily apparent from signs on the site, and presumably from the permitting fi le at Knox County as well.

“This NOV appears to have no purpose other than to harass a citizen activist. Shannondale farmer James McMillan, Charles’ son, is a well-recognized leader on stormwater issues in Knox County, a volunteer for TCWN and a member of the Knox County Stormwater Task Force. Mr. McMillan has been a frequent and vo-

cal critic of Knox County’s stormwater program and has generally been a thorn in the side of Knox County storm-water staff.”

Hoyos said she has heard from Burchett chief of staff Dean Rice, and a meeting has been set for later this month to discuss stormwater issues.

“This is nothing but a smear campaign to discredit me,” said James McMillan, who also said he had warned the contractor to install ero-sion controls but had no con-trol over his actions.

Charles McMillan wants his name cleared. He is demand-ing an apology from Knox County and wants records of the NOV scrubbed from the county’s databases by the end of the month. He said he is disgusted by the county’s ac-tions.

“Not a gallon of mud has run off this site,” he said, look-ing down the hill toward the

James McMillan stands behind the sign erected by the grading

contractor who prepared a cell tower site on his father’s farm. Photo by Betty Bean

McMillan farm issued noticeof stormwater violation

spot where White’s Creek me-anders through his pasture.

James McMillan said he’s not going to stop pestering county offi cials:

“My hopes and prayers are that Mayor Burchett will let

Van de Vate straighten out the stormwater division.”

(Note: We requested but at press time had not yet received Knox County’s re-sponse to the McMillans’ complaints.)

By Greg HouseholderIt is almost ready. Some of

the equipment was delivered last Thursday with more to come. The target for opening is Feb. 1.

The First Baptist Church of Powell Family Life Center has been under construction for about a year. When it opens, the 23,632-square-foot facility will be a valuable asset for the Powell community.

And the folks at FBC want ev-eryone to use it.

“We want to stress that this is not something only for church members,” said Tommy Fox, di-rector of sports and recreation for the church.

With a focus toward commu-nity outreach, the center will be available for community groups and individuals needing a facility that features a regulation basket-ball court, a low-impact fitness track, men’s and women’s locker rooms, multimedia conference rooms, a weight and cardiovas-cular workout room that includes machines and free weights, and a café with full kitchen facilities and free Wi-Fi.

According to Fox, anyone may use the facilities free of charge during normal hours of opera-tion. All that is required is a one-time signing of a liability waiver and then guests merely check in on subsequent visits.

The new Family Life Center will also be an asset for First Baptist Academy. Currently FBA

is K-9, but plans are in place to add a grade per year until the academy is K-12. The Family Life Center will be used for physical education during school hours and the basketball court will be used for practice of the middle school and high school volleyball and basketball teams in the fu-ture during the immediate after school hours.

Planned hours of operation are from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Mon-days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays; from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and from 1-6 p.m. on Sundays. From 7-9 p.m. on Mondays, the center will host pickup basketball for men age 18 and above.

The Family Life Center plans to offer group fitness classes throughout the year. The dura-tion will typically be eight to 10 weeks. The first class is called “Temple Training” for women and is scheduled to run from 8-9 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays be-ginning Jan. 31 to March 31.

Sports are not confined to the indoors. FBC-Powell has a base-ball/softball diamond under con-struction and has a soccer field. The church is currently enrolling youth soccer players. For info, visit the church website at www.fbcpowell.org.

For more info regarding pro-grams offered, contact Tommy Fox at the church at 947-9074 or e-mail tommyfox@fbcpowell.com.

A sneak peekThe fi tness track above the basket-

ball court provides a low-impact

surface for walking or running.

Equipment for the weight and

cardio room was delivered

just before this photo was

taken last Thursday.

The Family Life Center

features men’s and

women’s locker rooms

with showers.

First Baptist Powell Family Life Center almost ready to open

‘WALKING TALL’When Pusser’s story went Hollywood

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Buford Pusser on the big screen Editor’s Note: This is a

continuation of a story that ran in last week’s edition.

Buford Pusser’s story may never have come to the big screen were it not for a man taking a shave.

At some point in the late 1960s, fi lm producer Mort Briskin fl ipped to the popu-lar CBS TV news magazine “60 Minutes” before step-ping into the bathroom to shave. Hearing a report about Pusser’s exploits as sheriff of McNairy County, Tenn., Briskin stepped out of the bathroom to watch.

The Chester County Courthouse subbed for Sheriff Buford Pusser’s McNairy County offi ce in the

“Walking Tall” fi lms of the 1970s. According to Dwana Pusser, McNairy County offi cials at the time

refused to cooperate with the fi lmmakers to have the fi lm shot there. File photo

“Walking On” by Dwana Pusser (with Ken Beck and Jim Clark) is available from Pelican Publishing Company. It can be purchased at book outlets or online at Amazon.com. For more info on the Buford Pusser Home and Museum in Adamsville, Tenn., visit www.bufordpussermuseum.com or call 731-632-4080.

Bloopers and boom mics

One of the most dis-

cussed “bloopers” of the 1973

“Walking Tall” fi lm is the ap-

pearance of the boom mic in

several key scenes. Research

indicates that this occurred

when the fi lm was altered

from its original aspect ratio

while being adapted for

television and for early home

video and DVD releases. A

2007 Paramount DVD release

restores the fi lm to its original

widescreen format and, ac-

cording to the Internet Movie

Database, fi xes the problem.

(I am in the process of obtain-

ing a copy and haven’t yet

seen it.)

Several bloopers do

exist, however. The boom

mic’s shadow is visible dur-

ing a scene in the judge’s

chambers. Pusser’s stick can

clearly be seen as a fl exible

foam-like structure in the

scene in which he fi rst busts

up the Lucky Spot. Also, Sher-

iff Thurman’s car explodes

before it crashes in one scene

and a crew member is visible

in one scene ducking beside

a car while Pusser busts a

moonshine operation.

– J.M.

‘Walking Tall’

Wanted: offi ce seekersThis year Knoxvillians will elect a mayor, a municipal

court judge and four City Council members. The run for mayor as well the council seats could be competitive. If not, at least the also-rans can say they tried.

There’s another election scheduled in Knox County this year, but unless you’re a resident of the town of Farragut you may know little of it and care even less. In April, Farragut residents will go to the polls to select aldermen to represent Wards I and II in the town.

Both seats are uncontested. Alderman Dot LaMarche is standing for re-election in Ward II. Ronald Honken is the lone candidate in Ward I.

LaMarche and Honken are fi ne people and good choices for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, but there’s a touch of irony in these non-races. A great deal of the town’s functioning depends upon volunteers who work in areas ranging from the town’s planning com-mission to the Folklife Museum, and Farragut honors its volunteers every year with a splendid banquet. But volunteers for elected offi ce – at least in this election year – are as scarce as Quakers at an NRA convention.

Farragut’s elected offi cials are volunteers in the strict-est sense: they receive no pay. And considering how roughly some have been treated in recent years (former Mayor Eddy Ford was pilloried, quite unfairly, because of speed bumps installed on a town street), it’s hard to blame those who, like LBJ, choose not to run even if nominated.

Well, at least those who don’t run can say they didn’t try.

At the Shopper-News we’re always trying, because this is one gig in which “What have you done for me lately?” is a motto you live by. Reporter Natalie Lester has an account of her fi rst visit to a Knoxville Tea Party meeting, and Valorie Fister hooks up with the Lost Cajuns in the Farragut edition. Wendy Smith’s Bearden edition cover story about the exploits of Dave Beck, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, is a must read.

Finally, we sadly note that contributor Betty Bean’s father passed away recently. May God bless and comfort you and your family, Betty.Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

When the segment ended, he called his secretary with strict instructions.

“Find that man!” Pusser held several meet-

ings with Briskin and Bing Crosby Productions, both in Tennessee and in Hollywood. Dwana Pusser writes in her memoir, “Walking On,” that her father was excited about having the fi lm shot in Mc-Nairy County. But, she says,

local leaders said “no way.” “It was purely a matter of

jealousy,” she writes. So Pusser took the produc-

tion team to nearby Chester and Madison counties. The movie “Walking Tall” and its two sequels were fi lmed there.

Hollywood took liber-ties with Pusser’s story, most famously by having him carry around a big stick as a weapon. The sheriff he ran against in 1964 didn’t try to run Pusser off the road before crashing his police cruiser in fl ames. Pusser did not attend his wife’s funeral and then go burn down the State Line Mob’s joints. (He was unable to be moved from his hospital bed because of his injuries.) No one ever attacked the Pusser family at home.

Pusser later said that the fi rst “Walking Tall” was about “80 percent true.”

Texas actor Joe Don Baker played Pusser in the fi rst fi lm. Baker would later serve as an honorary pallbearer at Puss-er’s funeral.

Dwana adored the actor. She writes that Baker called her when she visited Hol-lywood in 2004 for the pre-miere of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s version of “Walk-ing Tall,” helping ease her nerves over a fi lm that has little to do with both Pusser’s story and the 1973 original.

“To me,” she told him, “you’re the closest thing to my daddy. Every time I looked at you on TV you were my daddy. You were the closest thing I had to a daddy after I was 13 years old.”

Dwana did not share the same feelings toward Bo Svenson, the actor who played Pusser in two “Walk-ing Tall” sequels and a short-lived 1981 NBC TV series. She writes that when she met Svenson on the set of the second fi lm, hoping to become close to him because her father had recently died, Svenson made a disparaging remark about her weight.

The fi rst “Walking Tall” was fi lmed for roughly $500,000. It would go on to gross $23 million in the U.S. alone (big money in 1973). Not an immediate hit (Dwana says it only played for a few days at the theater in Selmer, Tenn.), promoters changed the way the fi lm was marketed to de-emphasize the violence and play up the fact that it was based on the true story of a man standing up against lawlessness.

UT fi lm studies profes-sor Chuck Maland says that “Walking Tall” is an example of what fi lm historian Robert Ray calls a “right cycle fi lm.” Refl ecting the polarization of the American electorate in the Vietnam and Watergate era,

right cycle fi lms were a reac-tion to left cycle fi lms such as “Bonnie and Clyde,” which tended to glorify outlaws.

“The right cycle fi lms tend-ed to center on cops or vigilan-tes engaged in a war against criminals,” Maland says.

“To me ‘Walking Tall’ is kind of a small-town ‘Dirty Harry.’ The bad guys are re-ally bad in both cases, terror-izing or at least scandalizing society, and the fi lm provides a tough, no-nonsense individ-ualist hero to eliminate those bad guys. The corrupt judicial system in the town frustrates Pusser’s desires to clean up the town, similar to the situ-ation in ‘Dirty Harry,’ where Scorpio is set free by the ju-dicial system because Harry didn’t read Scorpio his rights or violated his rights in some way or another.

“As I look back on both cycles, I think it may be true that although the political implications of the two dif-ferent cycles are quite differ-ent, the fi lms are really quite similar in that they depict a polarized society.”

As Dwana Pusser cor-rectly observes, the real star of “Walking Tall” is the state of Tennessee. The decision to fi lm entirely on location cap-tures an authenticity later in-carnations would sorely lack.

Actor Brian Dennehy por-trayed Pusser in a 1978 TV movie, “A Real American Hero,” that was also fi lmed on location in Tennessee. Only actor Forrest Tucker (who played Pusser’s father Carl in the fi nal “Walking Tall” fi lm) returned from the fi rst series.

Buford Pusser’s death “Walking Tall” was a

mixed blessing for Buford Pusser. Although it became a huge hit and made him a well-known celebrity, many blame the hurt feelings over the decision to fi lm the mov-ie elsewhere as a reason for Pusser’s unsuccessful bid for

McNairy County sheriff in 1972. (He was constitution-ally barred from seeking an-other term in 1970.)

Pusser became active in state Republican politics and stumped actively for guber-natorial candidate Winfi eld Dunn. Pusser was the guest speaker at a successful fund-raising dinner in Knoxville for Dunn during the 1970 campaign.

Such was Pusser’s popular-ity that he cut a deal on Aug. 20, 1974, to play himself in the sequel to “Walking Tall.”

After holding a press conference in Memphis an-nouncing the deal, Pusser met Dwana at the McNairy County Fair. Dwana remembers it as a hot and humid late summer

night. About 11:40 p.m., Dwa-na left with friends. Pusser, who was detained by a man at the fair’s front gate, soon followed behind in a Corvette he’d owned for nearly a year.

Pusser passed the car in which Dwana was riding at a high rate of speed. A few min-utes later, just after midnight, Dwana and her friends came upon the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 64 just west of Adamsville. Buford Pusser’s car was on fi re. He had been thrown from the wreck.

“I turned him over and be-gan screaming, ‘Daddy, don’t die!’ ” Dwana writes. “He mut-tered what I want to think was ‘Dwana’ then he was gone.”

Tennessee Highway Pa-trol Trooper Paul Ervin’s ac-cident report indicates that Pusser lost control of his car. Pusser’s death was later ruled an accident. Sworn state-ments disagree over whether Pusser smelled of alcohol the day he was killed.

Dwana never accepted the offi cial report. In her book, she makes the startling revela-tion that in 1990 she received from a law enforcement friend a written statement by one of Pusser’s old informants claim-ing that a contract had been taken out to kill Pusser.

Dwana contends in the book that Pusser had agreed to support McNairy County native Ray Blanton in the Democrat’s bid for governor with the understanding that Pusser would be named com-missioner of safety, which at that time had jurisdiction over both the highway patrol and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. (Blanton died in 1996.)

Dwana believes that “many powerful people” feared Pusser obtaining that position because of the power he would hold and the cases he could reopen. So, she believes, they decided to have him killed.

The informant’s statement says that he met with Pusser several times in 1973 and 1974 about the alleged hit and tried to contact him the day be-fore he died. (Pusser’s father Carl acknowledged receiving a phone call that day from someone desperate to get in touch with him.)

Is the story fact or fi ction? “I can’t say with complete

certainty,” Dwana writes. “The story he tells fi ts well with other facts from my dad-dy’s life and the bits of infor-mation that others and I have pieced together about the day he died.”

Today, Buford Pusser’s home is a museum and tourist attraction. It was purchased by the state of Tennessee and given to the city of Adamsville, Tenn. (Then state Speaker of the House Ned McWherter helped pass the bill.)

Dwana has struggled with depression and multiple sclerosis. She lives in Savan-nah, Tenn.

“When there are dark times and I feel as though I can’t make it another day,” she writes, “I just remember daddy. I remind myself that part of him is in me. I realize I can do whatever it takes to meet the challenges I face and keep … walking on.” Contact Jake Mabe at 922-4136, Jake

Mabe1@aol.com, jakemabe.blogspot.com,

Twitter.com/HallsguyJake.

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Knox North Lions hear from

ChildhelpBy Greg HouseholderIt all started with two

young Hollywood film stars finding 11 half-American and half-Japanese orphans wandering homeless in To-kyo following a typhoon more than half a century ago.

The women were Sara Buckner O’Meara and Yvonne Lime Fedderson, who had met on the set of the 1950s sitcom “The Ad-ventures of Ozzie and Har-riet” where they played the girlfriends of Ricky and Da-vid Nelson. Their mission for children began in 1959 while on a government-sponsored goodwill tour to visit troops in Japan.

The children were born of American soldiers and Japanese mothers dur-ing the Korean War. The women took the children back to their hotel room with the intention of put-ting them in an orphanage the next day.

They learned that the children were turned away from the majority of or-phanages because of their mixed heritage. The wom-en found a woman, Kin

Scott Strable from the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Ten-

nessee speaks to the Knox North Lions Club. Photo by Greg Householder

‘For the love of a child’

Horuchi, living in a one-room house who would take the children.

And thus, Childhelp be-gan. The women returned to the U.S. and began rais-ing money in the Holly-wood community.

Through the years, Childhelp worked with or-phans from Vietnam and, after a chance encounter with then California First Lady Nancy Reagan, began to focus on child abuse.

Today, Childhelp has chapters in nine states and the District of Columbia. One chapter is located in East Tennessee.

Last Wednesday, the Knox North Lions heard from Scott Strable from the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee. He told the Lions that there are two programs in East Tennessee. The Child-help Children’s Center of East Tennessee is an advocacy cen-ter in West Knoxville where kids are taken to be inter-viewed and examined follow-ing allegations of child abuse. The facility is kid-friendly and is much better for the children than being taken to a police station. The other program is the one Strable works with and focuses on recruiting and training foster parents and

gets children placed with fos-ter families.

Strable told the Lions how Childhelp engineered a land swap with a donor family from Wears Valley a few years ago to purchase the old Brookhaven Farms site in Seymour. Originally, the intent was to establish a group home, but follow-ing a lawsuit against the state more than a decade ago, Tennessee has backed away from the concept of group homes, limiting the number of children to eight which is an economically unfeasible number for a residential facility.

Strable said the goals of the state regarding fos-ter care have evolved from reunification with biologi-cal parents to permanency and is moving toward fix-ing families. According to Strable, no matter what the family situation – even in cases involving abuse – the most damaging thing for the kids is for them to be away from their parents.

The Lions are exploring ways to partner with Child-help as a service project.

The Knox North Lions meet at 1 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at Puleo’s Grille on Cedar Lane near Mer-chants.

Lions want your trashRecycling bins take

just about everythingBy Greg Householder

Two area Lions Clubs – the Powell Lions and the Knox North Lions – want your trash. Both clubs have recycling bins at area shopping centers and you might be surprised as to what they will take.

The Knox North Lions’ bins are located near the fuel pumps at the Ingles on Emory Road. The Pow-ell Lions’ bins are near the KARM store in the Pow-ell Place Shopping Center at Clinton Highway and Emory Road in Powell near Food City.

Both clubs will take newspapers, magazines, catalogs, office paper, junk mail, file folders, index cards, colored copy paper, plain and window enve-lopes, and phone books. Staples and paperclips do not have to be removed.

What cannot be accepted – laminated or wax coated paper; paper with crayon or glue; cardboard, poster board, cereal boxes or brown paper bags and construction paper or brown envelopes.

Proceeds from the recycling programs go to sup-port the respective clubs.

Last Thursday, Tommy Fox and the guys working on the new family life cen-ter at First Baptist Church of Powell helped me solve a mystery that I had won-dered about for quite a while.

If you have driven through Powell, you might have noticed some folks sitting with a big banner at the intersection of Brick-yard and Emory roads that said “Shame on Phil Jones.” Non-Baptists (or non-First Baptists of Pow-ell perhaps) may have won-dered – “who is Phil Jones and what has he done to be ashamed of?”

Phil Jones is the pas-tor of First Baptist Church of Powell and I can as-sure you that he has done absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

You see, turns out that one of the subcontractors working on the family life center ran afoul with some union types a few years ago. Rumor has it that the picketers are actually homeless folks picking up a few extra bucks to sit with the banner.

I could never figure out why they were target-ing “Pastor Phil” as he is known at FBC. Pastor Phil, while I am sure has watched with interest as the new family life center came together, really isn’t involved in paying em-ployees of a subcontrac-tor – the subcontractor is. What I learned on my visit is that these folks do this everywhere that particu-lar subcontractor has a job going on – UT and Park-west hospitals were two examples given.

So mystery solved. There is no “shame” on Phil Jones.

At last week’s Powell High PTA meeting, I saw a remarkable thing happen.

Mystery solved and other good news

When lousy weather forced the cancelation of some of the PTA’s fundraisers last month, the group found itself running a little short on cash moving into the last half of the year.

Assistant principal and athletic director Mark Ma-jors came to the rescue with an infusion of about $1,000 into the PTA’s cof-fers.

According to principal Ken Dunlap, the money comes from all the home-coming fundraising that goes on in the fall. Student groups raise money and the athletic department gets a cut since most of the activities occur at football games.

Should a need arise – say a team goes to the state tournament or an in-dividual athlete such as a golfer goes to state and the money hasn’t been bud-geted – these funds help in these kinds of emergen-cies. Other things the mon-ey is used for is to pay for substitute teachers when a teacher goes to a continu-ing education seminar or conference.

According to Ken, when they recently audited this emergency fund, they found that 98 percent or better actually went into classrooms or for kids – not to purchase new football uniforms and equipment as popular per-ception seems to be.

Seems like good finan-cial management to me – a wise use of resources. Maybe we should send the staff at Powell High to Washington.

Antiques and relics in the Smokies

The second annual Civil War Relic Show will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27-28, and the inaugural Smoky Mountain Antique Show and Sale will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-30. Both shows will be at the Smoky Mountain Convention Center in Pigeon Forge. Admission to each is $8 (children under 12, $4).

For the antique show, vendor registration for an 8-foot space is $65 through July, $80 there after. Ven-dor space for the relic show is $65 through May, $80 there after. Both shows are sponsored by Smoky Moun-tain Resorts, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Info: 1-800-223-6707 or 908-3015.

Cerebral Palsy fundraiser

Beth Haynes from WBIR will be the master of ceremo-nies for a Valentine’s evening 6-10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at the Foundry at the World’s Fair Park. There will be food, live jazz and a chance to bid on a seven-day Holland America Cruise. All proceeds benefi t the Cerebral Palsy Center. Info: www.cpcenter.org or 523-0491.

Coupon FairThe second annual Knox-

ville Coupon Fair will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 26, at Faith United Method-ist Church, 1120 Dry Gap Pike. Admission is free and child care will be provided.

Local coupon and money saving experts will be on hand, and people new to couponing will benefi t from instructional handouts provided. Participants are encouraged to bring extra coupons and “freebies” to trade. Topics will include

organizing coupons, saving money on items for babies and children and learning new coupon technology. Info: E-mail Gabrielle Blake at couponingincriticaltimes@gmail.com or call 688-1000.

Wrestling show at Powell Middle

Tennessee Mountain Wrestling will hold a free show 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Powell Middle School. Local wrestling legend Ron Wright will attend and Bubba V (Davida Nichol-son’s son) will ring the bell for each match.

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In 2003, Karen Graham wanted to put four dwelling units on a lot on Hubert Bean Road instead of the one unit allowed by the county zoning ordinance, so she and her hus-band, developer Tim Graham, went to the BZA and asked for a variance.

Neighborhood represen-tatives showed up to protest, and the board came up with a “compromise” – three units per acre. Commissioner Scott Moore moved to approve, Commissioner Ivan Harmon seconded the motion, and it passed on a 9-0-0 vote.

The listed reason?“To place four mobile

homes on property.”This reason would not

be considered suffi cient to-day, said assistant law direc-tor Daniel Sanders, featured speaker at the January meet-ing of the League of Women Voters.

“If the BZA fails to faith-fully apply the zoning ordi-nance, we will be forced to live in a different community than the one our represen-tatives intended. When you come to the BZA (asking for a variance), you have a case to prove,” Sanders said. “It’s an extremely high bar. The deck is stacked against you.”

It wasn’t always so.Sanders, a Carter commu-

nity native who got his law degree in 2008, is the board’s legal advisor. He told the LWV members that it’s a new day at the BZA, a quasi-judicial board where witnesses are sworn and decisions are ap-pealed directly to court rather than to the legislative body.

Probably the most obvious difference between then and now is that applicants (and their opponents) can no lon-ger have private, “ex parte” conversations with BZA com-missioners about matters on the agenda, Sanders said.

This should not be con-strued to be a bar to commu-nicating with BZA members, Sanders added. Unintended or inadvertent communication does not deny due process.

“We don’t have a problem with someone approaching a BZA member at a public meet-ing and saying ‘They’re doing an awful thing to our commu-nity.’ … Just don’t go to their house.”

E-mailing the entire board or calling the offi ce of codes administration is the best way to plead a case, Sanders said, pointing out that these com-munications are provided to both sides.

Until March 2009, the BZA was composed of nine county commissioners or for-mer commissioners (one per district) who held on to their positions after leaving offi ce. There were no term limits or bans on ex parte communi-cations, and supporters and opponents of matters before

the board were free to contact board mem-bers private-ly to plead their cases. N e i g h b o r -hood groups complained that varianc-

es were too easy to come by, and Sanders concedes that approval was pretty much automatic if nobody showed up to protest.

Early in 2009, lawyer Herb Moncier fi led a law-suit challenging the board’s composition, and the law di-rector’s offi ce subsequently ruled that seven of them had to be replaced. Sanders ar-rived shortly thereafter and has been working closely with LWV members to encourage public participation.

“There’s a great func-tion that the League pro-vides – observer corps. I tell the board: ‘Look. There are people here watching you. There are going to be reper-cussions if you don’t follow the ordinance.’”

Mateja Stanonic came to Halls High School from the former Yugoslavia as a junior year exchange student. A to-tal patriot of her homeland, Slovenia, and proponent of freedom, Mateja was a bit short on clothes. Seems she had made a midnight get-away with a couple of satch-els of books.

Business teacher Tommye McGinnis embraced Mateja, recruiting community sup-port. A bunch of us signed up. Mateja might be the most intelligent person to ever at-tend Halls High School. If not the smartest, she’s surely the most ambitious. And she’s a loyal friend. Now a physician who also holds a doctorate from UT, she’s wrapping up a residency at George Wash-ington University.

Last week she put out the call. Meet me at Tommye’s for good news.

Ahhh. Mateja has topped 30. She’s been in school for-ever. What is the good news?

“I’ve got a job,” she said.

Mateja is h e a d i n g back to Slo-venia as that c o u n t r y ’ s fi rst sur-geon gen-eral. She’s making an 1 8 - m o n t h c o m m i t -

ment to create an electronic medical records system there. And she will probably do some brain surgery.

There is no better invest-ment than support of a smart, ambitious kid. Even if they are a bit short on clothes.

Scott Frith spoke at the Halls Republican Club last week. He’s walking a tight-rope as deputy director of elections, a position cre-ated after the Republican-controlled Election Com-mission failed to replace Administrator of Elections Greg Mackay, a Democrat.

Partisan Republicans want the top job in each county because political parties like to control the mechanics of elections. In 2000, Florida vote-counters dominated the news with talk of hanging chads and threats of recounts. Scott says about anybody can count a landslide election. It’s those close ones where

The health care debate has heated up again in D.C., and don’t think it isn’t just as hot in Knoxville. The Knoxville Tea Party met last week to dis-cuss the best way to repeal the Patient Protection and Afford-ability Act passed by Congress last year.

There are three ways to attack the plan, said attorney Van Irion, whose class action lawsuit against the bill was dismissed last April: “(An-other) class action lawsuit can give the Supreme Court the ability to decide the constitutionality of the bill, we can support the House’s

Sanders

BZA: Why it matters

Commissioners Dave Wright and R. Larry Smith huddle with Don

Henderlight, treasurer of the Halls Republican Club. Photos by S. Clark

Natalie Lester

Old friends, new jobs

books.

Sandra Clark

Fighting ‘Obamacare’ 101

repeal of the law or there is nullifi cation.”

Amid applause and cheers, nullifi cation appeared to be the crowd favorite. Irion said the Tennessee legislature would consider a bill this year saying the new laws are uncon-stitutional. It would include a penalty for any organization trying to enforce the laws.

“It may not happen this year, but we can educate the state legislators on who is behind this,” Irion said. “I’m very optimistic it could pass this year, but the goal is sim-ply to get it introduced so the legislators are aware of what it is.”

For those who aren’t fa-miliar with nullifi cation, it’s the action whereby a state refuses to enforce a law based on the argument that the federal government did not have the constitutional authority to enact the law in the fi rst place. Think Arizona and immigration.

Irion based his discus-sion on freedom and how he believes the federal govern-ment is taking it away from citizens.

“I know the people who are running our government are intentionally trying to destroy our economy. They don’t give us the freedom our fathers took for granted. America is about how people should be free and that is what the government is sup-posed to protect – that and nothing else.”

Irion quoted Thomas Jef-ferson and Thomas Payne. He also discussed the “free-dom” he believes was taken away by a 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Wickard v.

Filburn) that expanded the federal government’s au-thority to regulate interstate commerce.

Eventually, Andrew Montgomery had enough of

the history lesson and shouted for change now.

“All your heroes are dead, and their his-tory is dead with it. The people

who are living now must do something about it,” he said. “We have to take care of the new business, and until we take a new stand on how to

deal with it, we’re going to be shoved back in the hole.”

Irion encouraged his audi-ence to join his next class ac-tion suit and to continue the fi ght against “Obamacare” no matter the cost.

“I’m not buying ‘Obama-care.’ I’ll go to jail. We have a domestic enemy, and it can be eliminated,” one Tea Party member shouted.

“Let’s understand this is something worth dying for,” Irion said. “I’m not saying we should advocate shooters, but this is that important. Our children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren are going to have to live in this country we are creating.”

Betty Bean

Van Irion

the person in charge of counting matters.

Running elections is a job you get because of politics; then you quickly be-

come post-partisan. Scott talked a lot about social me-dia. He’s put the Election Commission on Facebook and Twitter. He’s ready to help local legislative bodies with redistricting.

He’s proud to have worked with Halls High social studies teacher Tim Reeves to involve high school students with elec-tion night grunt work. Training of workers has

improved and financial disclosures are now posted online.

Good stuff, Scott. Now let’s work on losing that “deputy” title.

Oh, yeah. Scott brought along Stephanie, his new wife, and made a couple of semi-funny jokes. He said Stephanie is an old-fashioned wife who lets him run things at home – things like the vacuum, the dishwasher …

He said on their hon-eymoon he lost his credit card. He was worried un-til he realized that the guy who stole it was spending less each day than Stepha-nie had been. “I decided to let him keep it!”Contact: sclark426@aol.com

Dr. Stanonic

Scott Frith

Reporter Natalie Lester attended a Knoxville Tea Party gathering last week and emerged with her wits mostly intact. The same could not be said for anyone who takes se-riously some of the incendiary words tossed around at the meeting.

We’re accustomed to hear-ing rough language at these convocations of the (as they see it) perpetually downtrod-den, but this latest verbal as-

sault on the federal health care legislation enacted last year tops the list.

Speaking to a crowd that considers the federal govern-ment a “domestic enemy,” local attorney Van Irion con-cluded the presentation of his strategies for repealing the health care laws by saying “this is something worth dying for.”

Really?There are issues for which

it’s worth sacrifi cing one’s life. Defending your family from harm and defending your nation or the world from en-slavement by a Hitler or a Sta-lin immediately come to mind. But does anyone sincerely be-lieve that the chief executive of the United States is bent upon

installing a dictatorship?Worth dying for. Was the

speaker unaware of the irony and the pitiless outlook con-tained in those words? I’d rather be dead than extend to myself and others the oppor-tunity for affordable health care; I’d rather be dead than see insurance companies pro-vide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions; I’d rather be dead than see the tens of millions without health insurance acquire it with the assistance of the federal gov-ernment; I’d rather be dead than see you healthy.

ETSPJ luncheonMembers of the Republi-

can Party will dominate the guest table at the upcoming

East Tennessee Society of Pro-fessional Journalists (ETSPJ) Legislative Preview Luncheon 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Calhoun’s on Bearden Hill. A buffet will begin at noon with the program beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Of 16 state senators and representatives invited, only two are Democrats. Those already confi rmed to attend are Sen. Jamie Woodson and Reps. Bill Dunn, Harry Tindell, Steve Hall and Ryan Haynes. WATE-TV reporter Don Dare will serve as moderator.

Lunch is $15 and is option-al. Reservations are required by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26. Reservations: Elenora E. Ed-wards, 457-5459, 385-4424 or elenora1971@gmail.com.

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COLLEGE NOTESUT-Knoxville

Dr. Terry Leap ■ now heads

the Department of Manage-

ment in the

College of

Business

Admin-

istration.

He brings

almost 33

years of

academic

experience

to UT, hav-

ing taught

at Clemson, LSU (Baton Rouge

campus) and the University

of Iowa. His research interests

are in the areas of white-collar

crime and deviant behavior in

organizations.

Study Abroad Fair ■ is 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.

26, in the Carolyn P. Brown

Memorial University Center

Ballroom. The event provides

a one-stop shop for students

to learn about opportunities

to study abroad. Info: http://

studyabroad.utk.edu/.

New Testament scholar Bart ■

D. Ehrman of the University of

North Caro-

lina, Chapel

Hill, will

kick off the

new David

L. Dungan

Memorial

Lecture at 5

p.m. Thurs-

day, Jan.

27, in the

University

Center auditorium. He asks:

“Does The New Testament

Contain Forgeries? The

Surprising Claims of Modern

Scholars.” The lecture and a

reception are free and open to

the public.

Pellissippi StateORAU ■ promotes math and

science through collab-

orative programs with PSCC.

The partnership has made

several math and science

Ehrman

Leap

Pellissippi prof goes to ChinaDavid Key, assistant professor of history, represented PSCC at

the 2010 Winter Chinese Bridge program. Beyond educational

institutions, the delegation visited Hubei province in central

China, the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square and Wuhan,

the most populous city in central China and a major transporta-

tion hub. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

competitions possible, and

in the process provided an

opportunity to recognize the

achievements of outstanding

middle school, high school

and college students who

excel in the two disciplines.

Lincoln MemorialLincoln Memorial University ■

LMU will host a trio of alumni

gatherings during basketball

season. The alumni offi ce is

hosting the 1990s and 2000s

on Saturday, Jan. 29, as LMU

hosts a double header with

SAC rival Wingate. The 1960s

reunion is Saturday, Feb. 12,

with Newberry. A reunion

for the 1970s and 1980s will

take place on senior night

Saturday, Feb. 26, versus

Lenoir-Rhyne. All women’s

games start at 6 p.m. and the

men’s games at 8 p.m. Info:

423-869-6280 or admissions@

lmunet.edu.

Acts have been an-nounced for the upcoming WayneStock: For the Love of Drew music festival, an event organized to help with expenses for noted local entertainment writer and Halls High graduate Wayne Bledsoe, who lost his son, 23-year old Andrew “Drew” Bledsoe, last month. Bled-soe, who also lost his wife, Ruth, to cancer a decade ago, has two other children.

Because of the connec-tions and friendships Wayne has made covering the local music scene over the years, veteran and up-and-coming performers alike have come together to put on Wayne-Stock at Relix Variety The-atre, 1208 N. Central St. in Knoxville’s historic Down-town North neighborhood, affectionately known as “Happy Holler.”

The Jan. 28-29 lineup includes such prominent local acts as Quartjar, Todd

Steed and the Suns of Phere, the Kevin Abernathy Band, Mic Harrison and The High Score, Senryu, The Drunk Uncles, Katie and the Bass Drums, the Westside Dare-devils, the Tim Lee 3, R.B. Morris, the Melungeons, and Psychotic Behavior.

The festival received an-other boost when additional star power agreed to open the festival with a free per-formance Thursday, Jan. 27. Also at Relix, the evening begins with a “songwriters-in-the-round” performance by Jake Winstrom, Greg Horne, Sean McCollough and Steph Gunnoe. The Ap-palachian music-makers in The Bearded will take the stage at 9 p.m., and piano-driven indie-pop band Hud-son K will close out the night with a 10:15 show.

In addition, WayneStock artists will appear on the fol-lowing programs to promote the festival:

At noon Tuesday, Jan. 25, artists Kevin Abernathy, Sean McCollough and “Un-cle” Mike McGill (of The Drunk Uncles) will be the guests on the WDVX-FM Blue Plate Special, broad-cast live on WDVX from the Knoxville Visitors Center at 301 S. Gay St. Tim Lee and Susan Bauer Lee (of the Tim Lee 3) and Mic Harrison of (Mic Harrison and the High Score) will be the Blue Plate Special guests Wednesday, Jan. 26; and singer-song-writers R.B. Morris and Scott Miller will appear on the Blue Plate Special on Thursday, Jan. 27.

All events are free except for the music at Relix on Fri-day and Saturday, Jan. 28-29. Tickets are $5 per per-son, per night, and advance tickets may be reserved at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/150688.

Info: www.waynestock.org.

Lineup announced for WayneStock

Sandra Clark

Continuity of leadership is important, school board chair Indya Kincannon told Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre at last week’s board workshop. That’s why she hopes he will stick around to fi nish the work he’s begun.

McIntyre told the school board that he’s neither ap-plied for nor been offered another job, including that of state commissioner of ed-ucation in Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration.

Kincannon said the board is pleased with McIntyre’s work as refl ected in his evaluations and the recent extension of his contract until 2014. That contract provides McIntyre can leave

Kincannon pushes McIntyre to stay

with 90 days notice. Seems a bit unbalanced.

Strategic compen- ■

sation is possible for teach-ers, funded at least initially by federal dollars through Race to the Top. “We are a people intensive business,” said McIntyre, “80 percent of our budget is people. And our compensation should refl ect our strategic plan.”

Leadership Acade- ■

my: KCS received 107 appli-

cations for 10 to 12 positions in the second Leadership Academy, a joint venture be-tween UT and KCS to train principals. McIntyre said se-lection will be made within two months.

The Teacher Supply ■

Depot celebrated its 10th anniversary by unveiling its new location last Thursday. The depot, a joint project of KCS and the Knox County Council PTA, is at 709 N. Ce-dar Bluff Road in the former Cedar Bluff Intermediate School location.

The school board ■ will meet at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 31, for a workshop and in regular session at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2.

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West Knoxville Rotary presents

A concert to benefit the Rotary Foundation’s “Polio Plus” project to prevent and eradicate polio worldwide, plus local charities.

Photo courtesy World Health Organization

Since 1988, Rotary International and its

partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) – the World Health

Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention – have worked

to wipe polio from the face of the earth. When Rotary

began its eradication work, polio infected more than

350,000 children annually. In 2009, fewer than 1,700

cases were reported worldwide.

But the polio cases represented by that final

1 percent are the most difficult and expensive to

prevent. That’s why it’s so important to generate

the funding needed to End Polio Now. To fail is to

invite a polio resurgence that would condemn

millions of children to lifelong paralysis in the

years ahead.

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Critter Tales

To you moms who are new to this or expecting, I have one simple piece of advice: put the parenting books down and back away slowly. Don’t look back.

A new parenting book comes out every fi ve minutes, each one claiming to produce fabulous, obedient Ivy League scholars. Please believe me when I say it’s all malarkey. Find one that tells you when to worry about a fever and how to recognize diaper rash and pass the rest by.

Another classic example of these wastes of wood pulp came out last week, and I’m not going to print the name of the book or the author because I don’t want to con-tribute to its already obscene sales fi gures. Like all the oth-ers, it claimed to produce “su-perior” children using crazy-making, draconian methods. What a bunch of baloney.

You know what kids need? They need caregivers who love them and do their best. That’s it. A simpler formula cannot be found.

Will loving your kids keep them from fl unking classes, whining or turning to lives of crime? Maybe, maybe not. But, there’s no guar-antee that Attachment Par-enting, RIE or the dreaded BabyWise will, either.

Parents, do yourselves and your kids a favor and decide what’s important to you, then raise your kids with those values in mind. Be will-ing to change your tactics if

moms101Shannon

Carey

Put the books away

they’re not working. Be fl ex-ible. Then, take a deep breath and remember that your kids will become who they want to be in spite of you. All you can do is give them a decent starting point.

When I became a mother almost three years ago, I made some decisions about the kind of parent I wanted to be. It was important to me that my husband and I not spank Daniel, that we never leave him to cry alone, that he grow up with a respect for books and wild places. Above all things, it is important to me that he knows he is loved.

Will he grow up to be “su-perior” because of this? Well, that depends on your defi ni-tion of “superior,” and it de-pends on him.

So, don’t look for the par-enting section at Barnes and Noble to do your job for you. Is it important to you to raise a disciplined child? Is religion important to you? Are aca-demics or artistic prowess at the top of your goal list? If so, parent with those wishes in mind.

But don’t forget, they’re just wishes.Contact Shannon Carey at shannon@

ShopperNewsNow.com.

It has come to the atten-tion of the West Side Shop-per-News staff that at least one homeless cat is living somewhere around our offi ce building, and someone has been feeding the little critter.

We are also fl attered to fi nd out that many of our neighbors think the person feeding the poor thing works for the Shopper-News.

As much as that sounds like any one of us on the Shopper staff, we would never let a homeless animal continue to scrounge for survival when we have an opportunity to help.

To the person feeding the cats on Lexington Drive, I would just like to offer some advice. Please make an at-tempt to rescue the cats or have them spayed or neu-tered and re-released if you haven’t already done so. This will prevent the cat or cats from becoming a

Unfriendly neighbors

colony. A humane trap can be used without any harm ever coming to the animal in question.

To the person who has threatened to call animal control on the homeless animal, I would like to offer my two cents. You work for a food company that might actually reap the benefi ts of having that cat at your back door. Without him or her, you could have a herd of mice breaking into your packages of cookies when no one is looking. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Meet Lucky Charm at Young-Williams Animal Center. She

is a 9-month-old female hound mix that is not too big and

not too small. She gets along beautifully with other dogs

and has terrifi c house manners. Lucky Charm is currently

available for adoption at the main center, 3201 Division St.

Operating hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Sat-

urday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. The adoption center at Young-

Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike, is open daily

from noon until 6 p.m. See all of the center’s adoptable

animals at www.knoxpets.org.

Relay For LifeThe Relay For Life of Knox County Kickoff Rally will be

held 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Relay participants will be able to register their teams and sign up to serve as Relay volunteers. Honored survivor and guest speaker Deborah Mauldin, promotions and marketing director of South Central Com-munications, will share her story with those in attendance. Refreshments and prizes will also be offered.

This year’s Relay For Life events will be held at various locations, including Friday and Saturday, April 29-30, at The Cove at Concord Park; Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, at Mercy North Health and Fitness Center Outdoor Track; and Friday and Saturday, June 17-18, at the World’s Fair Park.

Participants of the annual Relay For Life events give up a night of sleep to walk the track, representing the cancer patient’s journey day and night while raising money for the American Cancer Society. Info: Stacy Hall, 558-4053 or stacy.hall@cancer.org.

Free diabetes management classKnox County Health Department will offer a free series

of classes on diabetes management throughout the year. The next series of classes will be held noon each Thursday in February and March at the Cansler Family YMCA, 661 Jessamine Ave.

Attendees will receive a light diabetic meal and there will be a door prize drawing. Parking is free and conve-nient. Note: This is a series of classes meeting fi ve consec-utive Thursdays, not a single class. Info: www.knoxcounty.org/health or 215-5170.

‘Jammin’ in Your Jammies’The 14th annual “Jammin in Your Jammies” will be

held Friday through Sunday, Feb. 4-6, at the Holiday Inn at Cedar Bluff. A family of four can stay overnight beginning with registration 5 p.m. Friday and conclude their stay with a Saturday morning brunch or they can register at 5 p.m. Saturday and conclude their stay with a Sunday morning brunch.

The overnight event will include dancing, games for kids of all ages, nail and face painting, swimming in the hotel’s indoor pool, karaoke, a pajama contest, music from Star 102.1, line dancing lessons from Cotton Eyed Joe’s and a special appearance by some animals from the Knoxville Zoo.

Admission for a family of four is $140, $80 of which is tax-deductible. Additional family members can attend for $30 per additional person. All proceeds benefi t Children’s Hospital’s Child Life Department which focuses on pa-tients’ educational, emotional, social and creative needs to make each child’s stay as comfortable as possible.

Sponsors for this event include Holiday Inn Select Cedar Bluff, Kimberly-Clark, Comcast Communications, Charter Media and Star 102.1 radio. Info: 541-8441.

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Grossman’s black 1997 Jeep Wrangler looks just like many other Jeeps on the road. But ask her to pop the hood or the fuel door and let the surprise sink in.

Rows of yellow batteries rest under the hood where once there was a gas-pow-ered engine. And there is now an electric outlet be-hind the fuel door instead of a gasoline receptacle.

“There are only three elec-tric Jeeps in the world,” said engineer David Hrivnak. Hrivnak is the mastermind who custom converted Grossman’s now 100 per-cent electric powered ve-hicle. “There are not a lot of kits out there for it.”

Grossman’s vehicle now travels 30 miles on a charge – which is just what she needs for Knoxville driving. She pays the equivalent of 60 cents of electric per gal-lon of gas for a charge, and her approximately $15,000 conversion is expected to last for up to 10 years.

Grossman and Hrivnak want to see many more elec-tric vehicles in use around town and on the highways.

Grossman is the president of the Knoxville Electric Ve-hicle Association. The lo-cal stock broker and former WATE television journalist has teamed up with Hrivnak, an industrial engineer at Eastman, and 35 members of KEVA to promote electric transportation.

The group recently met at EarthFare in Turkey Creek and is plugging ahead with plans for a Feb. 19 free public workshop. The loca-tion and exact time will be announced. KEVA wants Knoxville residents to know just how real and affordable electric travel is today.

This is a crucial time for EV travel, especially in Ten-nessee, Grossman said. Car companies embraced EV production and are introduc-ing more options into the market like the 100 percent electric Nissan Leading Envi-ronmentally friendly Afford-able Family car, or LEAF, and the hybrid Chevy Volt.

The Nissan LEAF will even be made at Nissan’s Smyrna, Tenn., plant start-ing in 2012. Grossman said Nissan’s EV is the best choice in the new car market.

Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association president Leslie Grossman lets people see what really powers her 1997 Jeep Wrangler. Rows

of batteries are lined up where a motor once was.

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Insulin and fat loss

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener

Recently we have dis-cussed insulin and how it is the major hormone that regulates your blood sugar levels. This week I would like to continue our discus-sion on insulin and how it affects your fat loss, energy level and metabolism.

It is important to keep your insulin at a regulated level so that you do not have peaks of high and low insulin levels. One of the best ways to do this is by changing your eating habits. As we’ve spoke in previous articles, I suggest fi ve to six meals per day which have a combination of protein, complex carbohydrates (fruits and vegetables) and some good fats.

All healthy diets have an adequate amount of es-sential fatty acids which in-clude both the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. They’re very important since they are the building blocks of important hormones that regulate your essential bio-logical functions.

These are called essen-tial fatty acids because the body cannot make these on its own from other foods, therefore you must acquire these through proper nutrition.

These two important fatty acids are best acquired through eating fresh fi sh and poultry. The omega-6 fatty acids would be found in tuna or swordfi sh and they can also be found in chicken. The omega-3 fatty acids are best found in cold water fi sh such as salmon.

If you do not eat much of these foods, you need to supplement your diet with these essential fatty acids. If you don’t eat more than three servings of fresh fi sh per week, you should take essential fatty acids which include the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

Also keep in mind that the fat you consume should be monounsaturated such as olive oil, peanuts and almonds. In addition to the good fats, I also suggest adequate sources of vitamin E. Once again, if you do not consume a balanced diet, I would recommend at least 100 IU to 400 IU daily or whatever your physician recommends. I caution you against using saturated fats in your diet.

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Recently, money from a $100 million federal grant was awarded to local offi -cials for installation of more than 40 solar-powered EV fueling stations in Knoxville and Oak Ridge. The stations also are slated for comple-tion in 2012.

Grossman said Tennessee has easily surpassed Califor-nia as the leading state in the nation for embracing alter-native fuel-powered trans-portation. And she couldn’t be more thrilled.

“When I watched the movie ‘Who Killed the Elec-tric Car?’ I was so pumped,” Grossman said of her appre-ciation for electric vehicles. “I realized our choices were taken away from us, and that made me mad.”

Grossman said the movie outlines the rebirth of EVs in the United States and the efforts that followed to remove those vehicles from the mainstream market.

Electric vehicle history in this country actually starts with invention in the 1800s. By 1900, EV sales peaked

domestically. Henry Ford’s wife drove

an EV because she didn’t want to turn the cumber-some and often dangerous crank, Hrivnak said. With the invention and mass pro-duction of gas-powered ve-hicles, EV interest faded.

In just the last two to three years with the rise of gas prices and the infamous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, American interest in alternative fuels is once again piqued.

“The waiting list (to pur-chase a LEAF) is nine to 10 months long if not a year,” said Bryan Rigney, Internet

sales manager at Ted Russell Nissan on Kingston Pike.

He said it’s likely Nissan’s new EV will be on the roads in three to six months if not sooner.

The LEAF can only be ob-tained now via a Nissan.com waiting list, Rigney said. The LEAF runs approxi-mately $32,000, and there is a federal income tax credit that can reduce the price to around $25,000.

And as the electric trans-portation movement in-creases, KEVA plans to be part of it.

“Electric is the way of the future,” Hrivnak said.

Grocery store toursThe University of Tennessee Medical Center and

Food City will be hosting free grocery store tours to help people make right choices for a healthy lifestyle. Registered dietitians from UT Medical Center will give participants tips on healthy grocery shopping, comparing food labels and selecting food items that fi t your desired eating plan.

Upcoming tours include the Food City at Deane Hill, 284 Morrell Road, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26; the Food City at Clinton Plaza, 5078 Clinton Highway, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23; and the Food City at Mil-lertown Pike, 2712 Loves Creek Road, 5 p.m. Wednes-day, March 30.

The grocery store tours are a part of UT Medical Center’s Healthy Living Kitchen, sponsored by Food City. While the tours are free, registration is required: 305-6877 or visit www.utmedicalcenter.org/healthylivingkitchen.com.

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Social Media Seminar Series: “Blogging for ■

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25. $25 members, $35 nonmembers.

Progressive Marketing Summit, Co-Presented ■

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A year to enjoy pizzaPapa John’s Pizza in Halls has awarded two contest winners with a free pizza each week for the

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la Hampton of Greenville, S.C., for helping her win, and she plans to have Jayla down to Knoxville

to help her share in the winnings. Pictured at the celebration are: French, Koty Hardin, Ann Har-

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Joe Rice, Mark Field, Lindsay French, Michelle Kiely, Forrest Tuten, Morgan Thomas, supervisor

Dan Hughes, assistant manager Josh Roberts, Peter Berrio, Meagan Poore, Brooke Benton,

owner Jim Rooney, Theresa McManus and Rena Amerson. Through the month of January, the

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I found a recording of bag-pipe music on sale after Christ-mas. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love bagpipes, and those who don’t. That is largely the same as saying the Scots and every-body else.

Other cultures also have pipes, but the Great High-land Pipes are what most of us think of when we hear the word “bagpipe.” If your heart leaps at the sound of the pipes, and your head comes up like a hound to the horn, chances are you have Scots blood back along your pedigree.

During World War I, Ger-man soldiers called the fi erce Scots’ Black Watch (the Royal Highland Regiment) “the la-dies from hell” because of their kilts and their ferocious

And all the people went up following him, play-ing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise. (1 Kings 1: 40 NRSV)

Grace, tuned

fi ghting skills. One can, I sup-pose, make the argument that any group of fi ghting men who wear skirts would necessarily be pretty tough.

In fact, the highland pipes themselves developed as an early instrument of war, a mu-sical instrument designed to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy. You can imagine, can’t you, the sound of the skirling pipes coming at you out of the mists of the glen? No stealth there, just full out attack.

But it is the tuning of the

pipes which fascinates me. There is a drone pipe which sounds the same note all the time. And there is a chanter, which sounds the tune. It is the interplay between the steady, constant drone and the lilt of the chanter which gives the pipes their unique sound.

The chanter’s nine notes are tuned not to a key, as such, either major or minor, but to the mixolydian mode, a dis-tinctive, unique arrangement of whole and half steps which gives a haunting air to the mu-sic of the pipes. That is why some tunes have to be altered ever so slightly to be played on the bagpipe.

As I listened to my new CD for the fi rst time, hearing old beloved melodies and mak-ing some new friends, I was struck by the ease and grace with which the old hymn tune “Amazing Grace” sits within the limits of the bagpipe. Its tune is based on a differ-ent scale – the pentatonic, or fi ve-tone scale – which is the equivalent of the black keys on

the piano, and which is a sub-set of the mixolydian mode.

The beauty of the pentaton-ic scale is that all dissonance is removed. There are no notes that clash with one another. Play just the black notes, and it is a lovely, simple sound. Perhaps that is the reason that it appears in folk music across the world: Celtic, ancient Greek, Chinese, Albanian, Ma-laysian, Korean, West African, children’s songs worldwide, American folk, jazz, blues, rock and gospel music.

I have written in this space before about the fact that John Newton, who authored the words of the hymn “Amaz-ing Grace,” was a slave trader before his conversion experi-ence. It is hypothesized that he set his poem to a tune he had heard sung by the Africans he was transporting for sale into slavery.

A tune based on the penta-tonic scale, a scale in which all dissonance is absent, a tune, a hymn, a man, all bathed in the beauty of grace.

Community services

Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, takes orders

for Angel Food Ministries by

phone, 228-9299, or in person

the Saturday before each

distribution. The distribu-

tion of the food is usually the

third Saturday of each month

from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Info:

228-9299 or the church offi ce,

690-0160.

Beaver Ridge UMC Food ■

Pantry hands out food to

local families in need 1-2 p.m.

every Monday and 7-8 p.m.

every fi rst Monday. Donations

and volunteers are welcome.

Info: 690-1060 or www.

beaverridgeumc.com.

Cross Roads Presbyterian ■

hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry

food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each

second Tuesday and from 9-11

a.m. each fourth Saturday.

Dayspring Church ■ , 906

Callahan Drive, suite 109,

is a nondenominational

congregation worshiping in a

“come as you are” atmosphere.

Dayspring Christian preschool

trains children from 2 years

through 1st grade. Info: 266-

0324 or dayspringchurch10@

yahoo.com.

Fundraisers and sales

Christ UMC ■ , 7535 Maynard-

ville Highway, will hold a

communitywide clothing

give away 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 5. Clothing will

be available for newborns

up to adults. There will also

be shoes, socks, coats, hats,

blankets, pillows and more.

Christ UMC ■ , 7535 Maynard-

ville Highway, will have a

formal wear consignment sale

for children and adults 9 a.m.

to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12.

Info: 922-1412.

Men’s programsTemple Baptist Church ■ will

CONDOLENCESMynatt Funeral Homes Inc. ■

(922-9195 or 688-2331):

Michael Steven Baksi

Jean Jones Carey

June Cheek

Ronnie Edward Christian

Lloyd Ford

Jennifer Lynn Heath

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Thomas McCreary

Lonnie McFarland

Mary Ruth McGuire

Newell McPherson

Betty Lou Mealer

JoAnn Overbay

Opal Blanche Phillips

Rubin See

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Christine “Teena” York

Stevens Mortuary ■

(524-0331):James Paul “Jim” Burke

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CHURCH NOTEShost a Faithful Men’s Meeting

10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday

through Wednesday, Jan.

24-26. Guest speaker will be

Dr. Larry Brown. Everyone is

invited. Info: 938-8182.

Music servicesNorth Acres Baptist Church ■ ,

5803 Millertown Pike, will

present The Crist Family in

concert 6:30 p.m. Sunday,

Jan. 30. Admission is free but

a love off ering will be taken.

Info: 522-7590 or visit www.

northacres.net or www.

cristfamilymusic.com.

Mount Harmony Baptist ■

Church on Raccoon Valley

Road will present gospel sing-

ing by the group Wings Over

Jordan 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan.

29. Everyone is invited.

Bookwalter UMC ■ , 4218 Cen-

tral Avenue Pike, will present

its 5th Sunday night singing 6

p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30. The ser-

vice will include music by the

choir, soloists and congrega-

tion’s requests.

Christ UMC ■ , 7535 Maynard-

ville Pike, sponsors bluegrass

each second Sunday during

the 8:45 a.m. service.

Rec programsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753

Oak Ridge Highway hosts an

exercise class in the Family Life

Center gym at 9 a.m. Tuesdays

and 4 p.m. Thursdays. The

ZUMBA program fuses hyp-

notic Latin rhythms and easy-

to-follow moves to create a

one-of-a-kind fi tness program.

Cost is $2 per class. Low-Impact Aerobics Classes will

continue to meet 4:45 to 5:45

p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Info: 690-1060.

Special servicesHalls Christian Church ■ , 4805

Fort Sumter Road, will show

the six-week video series

“Answers in Genesis” by Ken

Ham 6:30 p.m. each Sunday

through Feb. 27. Info: 922-

4210 or www.hallschristian.

net.

Beaver Ridge UMC, ■ 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, Chancel

Choir of will host an evening

of dining and music 6 p.m.

to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan.

29, in the family life center.

Music will be performed by

the band Retrospect during a

four-course dinner of beef or

chicken. Tickets are $18 (chil-

dren 12 and under, $5) with

a maximum of $50 per family

unit. RSVP by Monday, Jan. 17,

690-1060.

The Shepherd of the Hills ■

Baptist Church now offers

an Internet prayer line.

Anytime you have a prayer

or concern, call the line and

leave a message. Someone

will be praying about the

request with you within 24

hours. Prayer line: 484-4066.

Bell Road Worship Center ■ ,

7321 Bell Road, off ers Cafe

Connection at 6 p.m. Sundays,

a time of fellowship, snacks,

coff ee, tea and informal Bible

Study.

Women’s programs

Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, will host

Women’s Bible Study 1:30 to

2:30 p.m. in the church library

on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The group’s fi ve-week study

will be Henri Nouwen’s “The

Return of the Prodigal Son – A

Story of Homecoming.” Info:

Rev. Glenna Manning, 690-

1060; www.beaverridgeumc.

com.

Knoxville Day Women’s ■

Aglow Lighthouse outreach

meeting is 9:30 to 11:30

a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, at New

Covenant Fellowship Church,

6828 Central Ave. Pike. Beth

Arnurius, associated pastor of

New Covenant Fellowship, will

speak on love languages. Info:

Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

MOPS ■ (Mothers of Preschool-

ers) meets 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

the third Monday of each

month at Fairview Baptist

Church for devotional, food

and fellowship. Child care

provided. Info: Anne, 621-

9234.

The Women’s Ministry of ■ Shepherd of the Hills Baptist Church, 400 East Beaver Creek

Dr., hosts a Bible study and

breakfast for ladies featuring

Beth Moore’s DVDs on The

Book of Daniel 10 a.m. until

noon each Saturday.

Workshops and classes

MAPS ■ meets noon Fridays at

First Comforter Church “for the

soul purpose of their children.”

Info: 688-8390.

New Hope Baptist Church ■ ,

7602 Bud Hawkins Road in

Corryton, hosts Celebrate Re-

covery adult and youth classes

7 p.m. Tuesdays and 12-step

class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Info: 688-5330.

Fairview Baptist Church ■ ,

7424 Fairview Road off East

Emory Road, hosts a Celebrate

Recovery program 7-9 p.m.

Thursdays.

Youth programsGraveston Baptist Church ■

Parents’ Day Out program is

enrolling children ages 11

months to pre-k. Prices are

$145/month for two days

a week, $85/month for one

day a week. Info: Michelle,

465-9655.

Cliff Adkins tospeak at KFL

Cliff Adkins will s p e a k to the K n o x -v i l l e Fellow-s h i p L u n -c h e o n at noon T u e s -d a y ,

Jan. 25. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women that meets weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell. Info: w w w . k f l - l u n c h e o n .com.

Cliff Adkins

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Random thoughts tied to the nearness of national signing day, starting with fl exibility in the word “com-mitment” – in recruiting as in marriage.

Once upon a time, a man’s word was his bond. Promis-es don’t mean as much in the modern context. Tennessee has nothing until prospects sign. After they are admit-ted to school, the operative word is maybe.

Maybe the prize 18-year-olds will listen occasionally, follow most rules, go to class and remain eligible. Maybe they will develop physically and mentally and avoid the worst of temptations. Maybe they won’t be lost to injury or some unscrupulous leech.

Maybe they will all stay and play and become Vols for life – but they won’t. Doesn’t happen. Some get discouraged or impatient. Some discover they aren’t as good as everybody said.

• • •Five stars awarded by

recruiting information ser-vices do not come with mon-ey-back guarantees. Think Chris Donald.

• • •What really matters in re-

cruiting? It varies. Potential playing time, rivals at their position. Conference affi li-ation. Coaching personali-ties. Word from established players about family atmo-sphere. Girls and parties. Distance between home and school. Recent history, AP rank. Stadium size, ap-pearance. Training and sup-port facilities. What mother thinks.

• • •Recruiting coups: Rich-

mond Flowers, son of the Alabama attorney general, rejected pleas from Gov. George Wallace and Paul

Random thoughts on recruiting

“Bear” Bryant and chose Tennessee. Pivot points could have been Chuck Rohe and Vol track success and a burning desire to escape po-litical turmoil.

Peyton Manning, son of an Ole Miss legend, studied the landscape carefully and really listened to David Cut-cliffe’s no-baloney insight into instructing quarter-backs. It helped that Archie Manning trusted Phillip Fulmer and had a longtime Knoxville friend named Bobby Scott.

Condredge Holloway had potential greatness in three sports but college football was the obvious path once Dorothy Holloway rejected Montreal baseball money.

Bryant sadly admitted the Crimson Tide just wasn’t ready for a black quarter-back. Bill Battle said Ten-nessee was. Ray Trail was outstanding as primary re-cruiter. Outstanding!

Heath Shuler could have gone anywhere. Recruiters were in the family home for 60 consecutive evenings. But there was a Tennessee con-nection. WIVK made it into North Carolina hill country. More than any other, the Volunteers were the home team.

• • •National search: Ten-

nessee looks everywhere for winners. Interesting that John Majors, Doug At-kins, Bob Suffridge, Reggie White, Herman Hickman, Bob Johnson, Larry Seivers, Bowden Wyatt, Bobby Dodd

and Al Wilson just happened to be Tennesseans.

• • •Risk and reward: Two

years ago, Bryce Brown, No. 1 in high school foot-ball, came uncommitted from Miami. He and han-dler Brian Butler were shop-ping around – Oregon, LSU, Kansas State, Southern Cal. The NCAA was watching and wondering.

The magnetic personality and tantalizing promises of Lane Kiffi n lured Brown to Big Orange Country. What the Vols got were four touch-downs, 460 rushing yards, 137 receiving, 19 on kickoff returns. He’s gone. And so are David Oku, Nu’Keese Richardson and several oth-ers (even Ed Orgeron) from that wonderful recruiting roundup. Fame can be so temporary.

• • •Hall of Fame recruit-

ing: Hank Lauricella just couldn’t see himself as a col-lege quarterback but he sure could follow blocking which was what single-wing tail-backs did at Tennessee.

Florida signee Steve Ki-ner became a discard after he crashed as summer gar-dener and pool attendant at the home of an infl uential Gator booster. Kiner needed a new landing pad and Ten-nessee had enough Florida connections (Doug Dickey, Jimmy Dunn) to catch the late rebound.

• • •Parting shot: In 1906, in

its six-page booklet of rules and by-laws, The Intercolle-giate Athletic Association of the United States expressly prohibited recruiting. Do not offer inducements based on athletic ability. Coaches ignored the decree.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Powell playsfour games in

eight daysBy Greg HouseholderThe Powell High School

basketball squads did not suffer the destruction of the schedule many schools did since the return from the holidays. Prior to the break, winter weather forced the postponement of the game with Clinton at home on Dec. 14 and the game at Fulton two weeks ago was moved from a Tuesday to the follow-ing Wednesday.

Last Monday, the Pan-thers squared the schedule by making up the Clinton game. The Powell girls won 52-34 led by Shea Coker’s 12-point performance including two shots from beyond the arc.

The Panther boys fell to the Dragons 57-48. Tres Palmer led the scoring with 20 points. Also scoring in double fi gures for Powell was Zach Miracle with 11 includ-ing three 3-pointers.

On Jan. 14, the Powell girls downed Karns 60-53 led by Alexis Gillespie’s 14 points.

Panthers get schedule back on track

Powell’s Dimiyah Moore blocks up the lane last Tuesday at Hardin Valley. Photos by Greg Householder

Maddy Blackwelder and Ha-ley Howell each scored 11 – Blackwelder with two beyond the arc and Howell with one.

The Powell boys fell to Karns 65-47. Miracle led the scoring for the Panthers with 15 including four from

3-point land and Steven Par-sons poured in 10 points.

Last Tuesday, the Pan-thers split at Hardin Valley Academy – the Powell girls fell hard to the Hawks 44-22. Blackwelder and Howell each scored fi ve points to

lead the Panthers. The boys outlasted the

Hawks 57-52 with Miracle pouring 16 points including three from outside the arc.

This week the Panthers travel to Campbell County on Tuesday (Jan. 25) before

By Ken LayNothing has come easy for

the Powell Middle School’s boys basketball team this sea-son. Still, the Panthers have managed to win 11 of the team’s fi rst 16 games.

Powell got another close vic-tory last Tuesday night when it outlasted LaFollette 39-37 in a non-league game at home.

“That’s just been our year,” Panthers coach Darin Court-ney said. “We made some plays down the stretch, and we made some stops that we had to make.”

The Panthers led 9-5 after the fi rst quarter before cold shooting reared its head. Pow-ell scored only one fi eld goal in

the second stanza (a 3-pointer by guard Joe Stucky), and the Panthers trailed 14-12 by half-time.

Powell saw its offensive woes continue early in the third quarter, and the defi cit climbed to 24-18 by the midway point of the quarter. Thanks to key buckets by Patrick Whittemore and Patrick Smiley, Powell pulled to within 24-22 by quar-ter’s end. Smiley scored seven of his team-leading 17 points in the third quarter.

The fourth quarter was fi lled with drama. Lacy hit a layup to give Powell a 35-28 lead with 2:17 remaining in the contest. Then Whittemore’s basket gave Powell a 37-29 victory be-

fore the Owls came storming back. LaFollette’s Ralston Lett-ner had a pair of baskets, and Ethan Jeffers scored to pull the Owls to within 37-35.

Powell turned the ball over on its next possession, but La-Follette couldn’t convert. Whit-temore, who scored 12 points in the game, then put the Pan-thers up 39-35 late. Dossett pulled the Owls to within 39-37. A Powell turnover ensued, and Austin North appeared to score the tying basket with 5.2 seconds remaining, but his basket was disallowed as he was called for travelling.

Powell girls prevail: The Panthers posted a lackluster ef-fort but downed LaFollette 27-

16 Tuesday. Powell opened a 5-2 lead in the fi rst quarter and never trailed in the contest.

Things, however, got too close for comfort for Powell coach Kim Stooksbury as her team led 12-8 at halftime and 17-12 at the end of three quar-ters.

“We had no intensity, and we didn’t box out,” Stooksbury said.

LaFollette pulled to within 17-16 before Powell closed out its victory with a 10-0 run.

Tori Lentz led the Panthers with 12 points (including seven in the fourth quarter). Bailey Williams added seven.

Powell returns to action to-day at Halls.

returning home on Friday (Jan. 28) to face Central.

In other high school ac-tion, many schools played make up games to get sched-ules back on track.

In action on Jan. 13, the Hardin Valley Academy girls downed Campbell County 53-46 while the Hawk boys fell 80-73.

In girls action Jan. 14, CAK beat Alcoa 56-45; Gibbs downed Grace Christian Academy 36-26; Catholic topped Bearden 39-33; Har-din Valley beat Anderson County 42-37 and Halls beat Campbell County 40-35.

In boys action, Bearden rolled over Catholic 78-52; Grace Christian Academy fell to Gibbs 72-68; Anderson County beat Hardin Valley 70-58; CAK knocked off Al-coa 60-51; West mauled Far-ragut 60-32 and Halls fell to Campbell County 67-62.

In girls action on Jan. 15, West demolished Heritage 55-18; CAK beat Kingston 62-46; Lenoir City topped Bearden 54-49; Central fell to Austin-East 66-60; Webb rolled over Mt. Juliet 70-14 and Farragut topped Maryville 56-41.

In boys action, Bearden jumped on Lenoir Cit 90-41; CAK beat Kingston 60-44; West took it to Heritage 80-41; Webb fell to Mt. Juliet 58-51; Central beat Austin-East 60-51 and Farragut fell to Maryville 70-65.

In girls play last Monday, Bearden topped Heritage 47-35 and Gibbs fell hard to Pi-geon Forge 75-45.

In the boys games last Monday, Bearden mauled Heritage 100-56 and Pigeon Forge edged Gibbs 52-50.

In girls games last Tues-day, Halls rolled over Karns 60-29; West edged Maryville 46-45; Gibbs fell to Gatlin-burg-Pittman 58-23; CAK lost to Loudon 50-45; Bearden fell to William Blount 57-51; Far-ragut rolled over Lenoir City 52-47 and Grace Christian beat Midway 58-47.

In Tuesday’s boys games, Farragut beat Lenoir City 63-61; Karns downed Halls; Bearden demolished Wil-liam Blount 79-22; CAK beat Loudon 82-57; Gibbs fell hard to Gatlinburg-Pittman 86-40; Grace Christian beat Midway 64-58 and West beat Maryville 63-57.

Powell storms back to outlast LaFollette

Powell’s Peyton Smiley attempts

a layup in the Panthers’ 39-37

win over LaFollette last week.

Smiley scored 17 points. Photo by

Ruth White

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