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Larger classes ahead?

Every Tennessee governor in living memory has wanted to be remembered as the Educa-tion Governor. Bill Haslam is no exception.

He staked his claim to the title by ending 2013 with a victory lap around the state celebrating the National As-sessment of Education ranking Tennessee the fastest-improv-ing state in academic growth in 4th grade math and reading scores over the past two years.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page 4

Healthy choiceHis health was fi ne.There was never going to be

a “best time.”Finally, after talking it over

with his wife, Kristi, Heath Woods settled for what he felt to be the right time. On Dec. 17, the longtime Carter High School football coach submit-ted his resignation to athletics director Chad Smith.

➤ Read Stefan Cooper on page 6

Naturally socialJust to prove that its pro-

grams aren’t only for kids, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave., will hold a Happy Hour Full Moon Hike at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served as the sun sets, and then at-tendees will head out onto the trails, using the light of the full moon to explore the park after dark. The event is part of Ijams’ social series.

➤ Betsy Pickle has details on page 3

Complex recruitingCareful now, what happens

next is critical.The main event in Tennes-

see’s level of football is the re-mainder of the recruiting race that peaks in early February.

Recruiting is a high-tech combination of science and art. Evaluation is step one. If it is erroneous, nothing else matters.

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Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and 8th District County Commissioner Dave Wright examine old newspaper clippings on display at the Carter Branch

Library. Burchett held a constituents meeting at the library last Wednesday. Nobody showed, possibly due to the cold weather. “Standing room only,”

Burchett joked. Photo by Jake Mabe

Chatting in Carter

By Betsy PickleKnoxville Children’s

Theatre’s latest produc-tion, “Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing,” is based on the Judy Blume novel that introduced the bane of young Peter Hatcher’s exis-tence, bratty little brother Fudge.

Any similarity between the feuding Hatcher broth-ers and “Tales” actor Eliza Abernathy and her older siblings is strictly coinci-dental.

“Sometimes they can be, you know, annoying, and his little brother is extremely annoying,” says 9-year-old Eliza, a South Knoxville resident and

Eliza Abernathy rehearses a

scene from “Tales of a Fourth-

Grade Nothing” with Michael

Blevins. Photo submitted

Play echoes real lifeByBy BBetetsysy PPiccklklklee

Knoxville ChChili drenen’s’s

for young actorBeaumont Magnet Acad-emy fourth-grader.

She says that her sisters, Roxie and Lucy, might say she can be annoying, too.

“I admit sometimes I am.”

At least rehearsals have kept her out of their hair over the past few weeks. The play will be presented Friday-Sunday, Jan. 17-19, Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 23-26, and Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, at Knox-ville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave.

Tickets, $12, may be ordered via tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.

Knox students’ criticism of Common CoreBy Betty Bean

Another Farragut High School senior is becoming an Internet sensation.

In December, Kenneth Ye, who has a 4.696 GPA, told members the Knox County Board of Education that ex-cessive reliance on the Com-mon Core State Standards’ high stakes testing is taking a toll on students.

Ye has spent summers attending school in his parents’ native country,

China, and is alarmed to see American schools em-ulating the high-stress, da-ta-driven Chinese school systems where desper-ate students have hooked themselves up to IV amino acid drips while studying for the notorious gaokao college entrance exams.

Ye also criticized the role that for-profi t busi-nesses like publisher Pear-son PLC have been allowed to play in formulating

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Kenneth Ye

Common Core standards.“As a student who has

scored fi ves on AP calculus and AP statistics exams and who plans to take Calcu-lus 3 at a local college next semester, I can honestly tell you that I am unable to answer or justify your fi rst grade Pearson math ques-tion, ‘What is a related sub-traction sentence?’”

Ye’s speech has been viewed some 30,000 times on You Tube, has been re-posted on websites like the Huffi ngton Post and the Daily Caller and is draw- To page 3

ing responses like, “Holy Crap. Does this kid have a speechwriter? Impressive.”

Ye’s friend and class-mate Ethan Young ad-dressed the school board about Common Core’s ef-fects on teachers in No-vember. Young’s video has garnered nearly 2 million hits. If the details can be worked out, Ye and Young will be going to Nashville to speak to members of the General Assembly at the invitation of Rep. Gloria

Warm thought on a winter day

It’s 7 degrees outside and the ground is crusted in a white mantle. Brrr!

Perhaps that’s what turns this silvered-haired noggin to daydreams about turning over the spring soil and watching the garden blossom into sum-mer’s green bounty ... toma-toes, squash, peppers, string beans, spinach, fragrant herbs ... basil, don’t you just love its bright, complex aroma? Ahh!

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Mary Dillon, MD, PNRC

Walking and wagging through the halls of Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center

Every Wednesday after lunch, Jason Artymovich of Karns, a Knoxville police officer, ties a red scarf on his dog, Ransom, and visits patients at the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.

Roaming the halls of three floors in a little more than an hour, Ransom calmly nudges and greets all the patients he sees. He usually obliges with a few tricks as well.

“He knows how to shake, high-five, roll over and sit. And then I fake like I shoot him, and he falls over. The patients love that,” said Artymovich of Ran-som, his 4-year-old German shepherd. “He does that five or six times the hour we’re there. He likes the attention.”

Ransom is an official HABIT dog, which stands for Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee. HAB-IT screens and sponsors animals well-suited to visiting nursing homes, retire-ment centers, rehabilitation fa-cilities and other places where an animal’s calming

presence may be needed. “His temperament is real good

and he’s real calm. He listens re-ally well, and he lets you do pret-ty much anything to him,” said Artymovich. “If you grab his ear, he’s real relaxed and won’t snap at them for doing that. He’s not stressed out easily.”

Ransom seems to know in-stinctively how to be calm with

the patients, compared to when he visits the administration wingof the center.

“At the end of every visit wego to the administration office,and Ransom gets real hyper.He’ll run around and get excit-ed. It’s weird that he can tell adifference between patients and non-patients,” said Artymovich.

Ransom has a therapeuticeffect on patients, Artymovichsaid.

“One lady, when we first saw her, she couldn’t say ‘Ransom.’But a couple of weeks before she left, she knew his name and could say it. It’s good to see the change in patients,” said Arty-movich. “Another lady started using her right hand to pet him, which she never used. He brings out a different side of the pa-tients.”

Artymovich is not a police canine handler, but has taught Ransom the same basic com-mands of a police dog.

“I taught him Dutch com-mands like the canine train-ers do. That way if I ever get a canine, they would both do the same thing,” he said.

Ransom will never be a po-lice dog, Artymovich said. “No, that’s a different skill set,” he said. “Ransom’s really not ag-gressive enough, which makes him a good family pet.”

Artymovich, 31, has had Ran-som since he was a puppy.

“He’s the first dog I’ve ever had. I’ve always wanted a dog, but when I was a kid I never had time,” Artymovich said. Hebegan volunteering at Patricia Neal about a year ago on the rec-ommendation of a friend, and the two plan to continue their weekly visits.

“It’s a great feeling,” he said.For more information about the services off ered at Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center, visit www.patneal.org or call 865-541-1446.

“I think it’s a great feature to bring Ransom in because he brightens the day of everyone,” said PNRC patient Charlotte Hardy. “I love dogs so much, and it is a great break from reality to see him walk into the room.”

Nontraditional therapy off ers great resultsAlong with the highest quality

physical, occupational and speech therapy, patients at the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center have access to a number of nontradi-tional approaches to therapy as well.

“Living a successful life goes be-yond the basics,” said Dr. Mary Dil-lon, medical direc-tor of the center. “It means interact-ing socially, mov-ing around in the community and doing the things you enjoy.

“We have many programs that go

beyond the traditional occupation-

al therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy, and that all adds up to success. We help restore abilities and rebuild lives,” Dillon said.

Here are a few of the nontradi-tional therapy programs available at the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center:

■ Animal Therapy – Two types of dogs regularly visit the center. Therapy dogs come through HABIT (Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee), a group that screens animals to interact gently with patients. Specialty command dogs have more formal training and follow action commands to help patients learn to verbalize. They can make therapy fun, espe-cially for children. “It’s more in-

teresting to throw a ball to a dog or take a walk with a dog,” said Dillon. “Regular exercises can be-come mundane and not that inter-esting in a pediatric setting. But if you involve a dog, suddenly it’s more fun.”

■ IRC sports program (In-novative Recreation Cooperative) – Golf, fi shing, water skiing, snow skiing, racing and other sporting activities can be adapted so that people with disabilities can par-ticipate in and excel at them. Us-ing specialized equipment, the IRC helps pair patients with activities they can do and enjoy. Participa-tion in events is free of charge ex-cluding travel and lodging.

■ Peer Support Groups – Small support groups are avail-

able for spinal cord, brain injury, stroke and amputee patients. “It gives patients a chance to be with their peers and ask questions of each other,” said Dillon. Most of these groups have several outings a year, whether it’s to ball games or art workshops, or just going out to dinner.

■ Rooftop Gardening – In warm weather, the rooftop garden at Patricia Neal invites patients outside to exercise their hands and arms, and to return to a hobby that many enjoyed before injury or ill-ness.

■ Adaptive Apartment – Before going home, many patients spend a few nights in the center’s special apartment, making sure they can fi x a meal, use the bath-

room or do other daily living taskssafely. Family members are wel-come to stay also so that they canwork out daily living tasks with thehelp of the therapists and nurses atPNRC.

■ Adaptive Driving Pro-gram – When is it safe or possibleto drive after a stroke or serious injury? This program can help pa-tients determine whether they’re able to drive and what adaptive equipment might be necessary. Training and support are offered as well by a certifi ed driving thera-pist.

For more information about the services off ered at Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center, visit www.patneal.org or call 865-541-1446.

Ransom and his owner Jason Artymovich spend a few minutes playing with PNRC patient Anna Bonds. On a normal Wednesday afternoon, Ran-som and Artymovich will interact with dozens of patients.

Ransom sits for PNRC patient Char-lotte Hardy, right, and therapist Ni-cole White. At PNRC, Ransom will show off his tricks and laid-back attitude to patients who suff er from orthopedic injuries, spinal cord in-juries, stroke or other conditions.

Ransom

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is a favorite as a spice tea, but with a little creamer and sweetener added, it makes a wonderful chai tea.”

Tea lovers always get special treatment at the

shop, which is open on Fridays and S at u r d a y s only.

“We of-fer a com-plimentary tea club,” says Wolf. “ C u s t o m -

ers receive a tea card and get punches based on their tea purchases. After six punches, a special tea gift is offered.”

The shop, which carries

art and jewelry creations by around 40 artists, sells a variety of tea accessories including teapots and tea-cups, both vintage and ones hand-painted by resident artist Bobbye Edwards.

Coffee lovers don’t need to feel snubbed.

“Dandy Blend is a coffee substitute that we carry,” says Wolf. “It has the fl avor of coffee without the caf-feine, glutens or acidity. It can also be used as a coffee substitute in any recipe call-ing for coffee. It is great as a beverage, hot or iced.”

■ Keep resolvingLast week’s “Arctic blast”

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Things are heating up at Tea & Treasures.

Warm up with tea for you

Ijams plans a social time to celebrate the January full moon.

Jenny Wolf makes a sale at Tea & Treasures. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Edwards

January is National Hot Tea Month, and to celebrate, owner Jenny Wolf is brew-ing up some specials at her shop at 4104 Martin Mill Pike. Tea & Treasures is of-fering 15 percent off all tea and tea accessories through the end of the month.

Customers are used to getting their fi x of specialty teas at the gift shop, which fi lls most of the rooms in a 1905-built two-story frame house.

“We always have a pot of hot water on,” says Wolf.

This month, Tea & Trea-sures is emphasizing the products of Harney & Sons, which offers “good old ba-sics like refreshing lemon verbena and classic Earl Grey,” says Wolf. She also recommends fl avored teas including raspberry, pome-granate oolong “and a spe-cial favorite Valentine Blend that has a chocolate fl avor. The versatile Indian Spice

pecially with extra trips to the pantry to fetch comfort-ing snacks – but there’s no need to panic about messing up a New Year’s resolution to get in shape.

South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane, 573-5843, has weekly classes in Pilates, yoga, senior cardio fi tness, water aerobics, ball-room and line dance, and Tai Chi. The senior center is open to all Knox County residents age 50 and up.

South Knoxville Com-munity Center, 522 Old Maryville Pike, 573-3575, offers a variety of activities, including exercise classes,

water exercises, basketball, walking and Aikido.

Snap Fitness, 7343 Chap-man Highway, 577-6633, has everything from boot camp to Zumba. Court-South, 2934 Alcoa Highway, 579-3600, focuses on both fi tness and wellness. Both gyms are still featuring New Year’s fee specials.

■ Naturally socialJust to prove that its

programs aren’t only for kids, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave., will hold a Happy Hour Full Moon Hike at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served as the sun sets, and then at-tendees will head out onto the trails, using the light of the full moon to explore the park after dark. The event is part of Ijams’ so-cial series.

(If you want to get tech-nical, the full moon debuts just before midnight on Wednesday, but that’s not a happy hour for anyone ex-cept werewolves, so Ijams is making the right call.)

The cost is $25 ($15 for members), and pre-regis-tration is required. Call 577-4717, ext. 110.

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com or 208-3677.Like most of her cast

mates, Eliza plays two roles: Mrs. DeMarco and Maria Cramden. This is her second production with the theater group. She also appeared in “Heidi and the King.”

“Since it was my fi rst play I had a smaller part, but it was still fun to play,” she says.

She was inspired to try acting by oldest sister Roxie, who had done some theater. Eliza started with a play at a summer day camp and then participated in school plays before auditioning for “Heidi.”

“I thought it was exciting and fun,” she says.

Acting isn’t the only performing outlet for the daughter of Christine and Kevin Abernathy, a popular

local Americana musician. She plays drums in The Pinklets, a trio that includes sister Lucy and friend Willa McCollough. Just don’t ask her to sing.

“I don’t sing,” she insists. “I have stage fright – stage fright when I’m singing, not when I’m acting. I don’t know why I cannot sing in front of other people, and I can act. I just can’t do it.”

“Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing” was Eliza’s intro-duction to Judy Blume. She says she hasn’t read any of Blume’s books, but “people say they are really good. A few friends knew this story, and they told me about it. They said it was really fun-ny, and since I’m more into comedy I did this play.”

Eliza loves movies. A Sandra Bullock fan, she’s es-

pecially fond of “Miss Con-geniality” and “While You Were Sleeping.” She also likes a certain young wiz-ard. “Harry Potter is one of my favorites,” she says.

“When I was in fi rst and second grade, I think I wanted to be a scientist ’cause then I thought scien-tists did potions and stuff. But now I have no interest in that.”

Although she likes be-ing a musician and she’s into interior design in a big way, she’s far from ready to choose a career. She doesn’t intend to become an actor, but she recommends “Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing” to audiences.

“It’s a silly play, but it also has some things that are in real life.”

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Johnson, who is also a Far-ragut graduate.

“I’d put these two Knox County students up against any students in the coun-try,” Johnson said.

Ye describes himself as a proud Southerner with a taste for country music and sweet tea who is also fl uent in Chinese. He says he de-cided to speak out because he feels he can offer a dif-ferent perspective on data driven education.

He and his older brother, Kevin, spent their sum-mers attending classes in the Chinese school district where their grandmother was a member of the school board. Last summer he went to Beijing with the Ameson Chinese Elite, a cultural exchange program that took a group of Ameri-

and open in it is in other countries. They are very smart kids, but you could see a difference between how they work and how American students work. The American way is based on our innovative thinking. We pride ourselves on being a nation of free thinkers.”

Ye’s father, Chuntao Ye, is a vice president at Denso Manufacturing. His mother, Yingdong Gan, was a re-searcher at the University of Tennessee’s Center for En-vironmental Biotechnology who now is a fulltime care-giver for her parents. Ken-neth is a server at Aubrey’s restaurant in Farragut, as was Kevin before he started college at the University of Pennsylvania and the Whar-ton School of Business.

Kenneth hasn’t decided where he will go to college quite yet, but he’s hoping there will be sweet tea avail-able wherever he ends up.

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Education reform on the cheap

Every Tennessee gover-nor in living memory has wanted to be remembered as the Education Governor. Bill Haslam is no exception.

He staked his claim to the title by ending 2013 with a victory lap around the state celebrating the National Assessment of Education ranking Tennessee the fast-est-improving state in aca-demic growth in 4th grade math and reading scores over the past two years.

Reporters and TV camer-as showed up to record him delivering sheet cakes to se-lected schools, lapping up the photo ops without both-ering to ask whether he and his education commissioner, Kevin Huffman, can legiti-mately claim these scores as the product of their reforms, many of which haven’t yet been fully implemented, or why the achievement gap between have and have-not communities isn’t closing, or why 63 district school su-perintendents signed a letter accusing Huffman of consid-ering “teachers, principals and superintendents imped-iments to school improve-ment rather than partners.”

He was asked about the hundreds of protesting teachers in his hometown who feel that the bulk of recent educational reforms

Media failed to report that Bill Sansom’s term as TVA board chair was ex-tended to May and that fellow board member Mike McWherter, son of the late Gov. Ned McWherter, voted against Sansom at the board’s recent meeting in Oxford, Miss.

It was an 8 to 1 vote. It is rare that anyone votes against the choice to be chair or many other votes for that matter. Disagree-ments are worked out in advance at closed commit-tee meetings.

Sansom’s term on the board expires in May 2014, but under the law he does not go off the board un-til the end of 2014 un-less replaced by another nominee before then. When contacted, McWherter de-clined to comment on why he voted no.

The no vote by McWhert-er is a public sign of the unrest and change which may be coming.

Several board members are stunned to learn TVA General Counsel Ralph Rodgers is making $1.9 million a year. Most East Tennessee attorneys do not make a quarter of that amount in one year. An equally or more competent attorney could be employed for far less and save rate-payers money. Most people in Knoxville do not have a clue who Ralph Rodgers is.

■ Neil McBride lost his TVA seat last week because President Obama failed to nominate anyone including McBride.

Sources tell me the White House will nominate three new persons to the board in next few weeks or by May at the latest. One will replace McBride and the other two will replace Sansom, 72, and Barbara Haskew, 73, whose term also expires in May.

With three new mem-bers, the White House is apparently interested in having a board asking more questions in its public sessions and a chair who is actually a Democrat.

The Obama White House was stunned that the eight TVA board Demo-crats selected the only Re-publican to be chair. With the fi libuster now gone, it is likely whoever Obama names will be confi rmed.

■ Pam Reeves, Knoxville attorney and federal judge nominee, will likely get a Senate vote on her nomination this month or next, if it has not already happened by the time this appears in print.

It will be a favorable vote.

Who is Ralph RodgersAnd why does he make $1.9 million?

■ The special state Supreme Court has failed to render a decision six months after hearing the John Jay Hooker lawsuit on the method state appellate judges are selected. The court includes two attorneys from Knoxville, former city Law Director Morris Kizer and former U.S. Attorney Russ Dedrick.

This high profi le case has generated considerable inter-est. The fact the decision has taken so long to be released is leaving many observ-ers wondering if the court is divided and if the fi nal decision will be a split one.

It is hard to imagine that a special Court ap-pointed entirely by Gov. Bill Haslam would over-turn the current system, but the delay to release an opinion is causing many to become anxious as to the outcome. If this court sided with Hooker, it would be the equivalent of a politi-cal earthquake. Although it was interesting to see former GOP Gov. Winfi eld Dunn at the Court hearing in Nashville supporting the argument of Hooker, his 1970 Democratic opponent for governor.

■ The City Council budget retreat will be held Friday, Feb. 7. Location has not been announced.

■ Former city Law Director Louis Hoffer-bert died Jan. 2 at age 86 . He was one of the city’s lon-gest serving law directors having served eight years in the two non-consecutive terms of Kyle Testerman. The longest serving law di-rector in the past 75 years is Thomas Varlan, now federal district judge, who served 10 years for this writer.

He is followed by Jon Roach who served eight consecutive years for Randy Tyree. Michael Kel-ley served six years also for this writer.

Among those attending the receiving for Hoffer-bert were current city Law Director Charles Swanson, who once worked a few months for Hofferbert; former Knoxville First Lady Janet Testerman (now Janet Crossley), County Commissioner Ed Shouse, former County Commis-sioner Wanda Moody, for-mer school board member D.M. Miller and city Judge John Rosson.

Larger classes ahead?

have come at the their ex-pense, but blew them off as a few bellyaching malcon-tents.

Many teachers feel that the bulk of recent educa-tional reforms – successful and otherwise – have come at their expense.

They point to diminish-ing job security, collective bargaining rights and pen-sion plans as well as plans to tie licensure to student test scores.

Many of these reforms did not start with the Haslam administration – it was Gov. Phil Bredesen who shepherded the state’s Race to the Top effort that won Tennessee a $500 million grant from the Obama ad-ministration and came with a lot of strings attached in-cluding requirements to step up high stakes testing.

Except for Haslam him-self, Kevin Huffman has no bigger public fan than U.S. Secretary of Educa-tion Arne Duncan, who proclaimed Tennessee’s Na-tional Report Card results “simply remarkable” – it’s a bipartisan deal.

Most of Haslam’s reforms

have steamrolled their way into law over the protests of the increasingly margin-alized teachers – with one glaring exception.

In 2012, an administra-tion proposal to raise the state-mandated cap on average class size for in-dividual classrooms was a resounding failure, even though Haslam pitched it as a way to return autonomy to local school districts. (Cur-rently, maximum class size, grades K-3 is 25, schoolwide average class size for those grades must not exceed 20. In grades 4-6, the individu-al maximum is 30, school-wide average must not ex-ceed 30. In grades 7-12, the classroom maximum is 35, but the schoolwide average cannot exceed 30.)

Pushback came from everywhere, not just from teachers. Haslam reluctant-ly withdrew the proposal, vowing to bring it back after critics can be made to un-derstand that its purpose is to give local school districts

Knoxville lawyer Kristi Davis threw her hat in the ring last week to replace Circuit Court Judge Dale Workman at her campaign kickoff at The Bistro at The Bijou.

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Kristi Davis chats with supporter Chris Fortner at her campaign kickoff last week at The Bistro at The Bijou. Davis, a Knoxville lawyer, is running for Knox County Circuit Court judge. Photo by Jake Mabe

Is there room for Kristi Davis?

In what promises to be a barn-burner of a race, Davis joins lawyers Ray Hal Jen-kins and Billy Stokes. All are Republicans. The early question is how Davis fi ts into the equation.

Both Jenkins and Stokes are former Knox County Re-publican Party chairs. Davis says that’s a positive for her.

“I have never been the leader of a political party, which, frankly, I think is better for this position of judge.”

Davis, who has been a partner at Hodges, Doughty & Carson since 2007, suc-cessfully appealed 4th Judi-cial District Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew’s

decision last year to forbid Cocke County parents from naming their child “Mes-siah.” Ballew’s decision was set aside and she was cited by a court panel for an inap-propriate religious bias in violation of the state judicial code of conduct.

Asked why she’s running, Davis says it’s something she feels called to do.

She said she thinks a good judge is one who “has been a lawyer in a court-room, and understands how to try a case. The best judges are scholars of the law.”

But they also must pos-sess integrity. “If you can’t do that, show impartiality and fairness, all of your legal knowledge is for naught.”

She adds that a good judge should also show “appropriate judicial de-meanor (and) be respectful of those in the courtroom. Be fi rm, be in control, but in a respectful way. It’s not (a judge’s) courtroom, it’s Knox County’s courtroom.

“But most importantly (a good judge) has a com-mitment to the concept of justice, making sure wrongs are righted.”

A Knox native and Karns

High graduate, Davis ma-jored in broadcasting at UT and graduated magna cum laude from UT’s Col-lege of Law in 1998. She has worked at Hodges, Doughty & Carson since 2000.

Stokes is holding his campaign kickoff 5-7 p.m. tonight (Monday, Jan. 13), at Calhoun’s on the River. He has some heavy-hitters in his corner, including Vic-tor Ashe, Jimmy Kyle Da-vis, Gail Jarvis, James A.H. Bell, Kreis Weigel, and the Perry Mason and Hamilton

Burger MPC lawyer duo – Arthur Seymour Jr. and John King.

Stokes probably is the front-runner, but it’s worth noting that his announced support is West and East Knox heavy. If Stokes holds the Republican establish-ment and Jenkins grabs at least some of the red-meat Republicans North and South, where is Davis’ GOP base?

Fasten your seat belts and hang on tight. The Re-publican Primary is May 6.

Clarifi cationKnoxville Communica-

tions Director Jesse Fox Mayshark requested this clarifi cation: “Victor Ashe’s column of Dec. 30 mis-stated the organization of the city of Knoxville Com-munications Department.

Former Senior Director of Communications Angela Starke reported to Deputy to the Mayor/Chief Policy Offi cer Bill Lyons. She did not report directly to Mayor Madeline Rogero. There has been no change in this structure since Starke’s departure.”

fl exibility to hire teachers in high priority areas.

Does this mean there are “low priority areas” in pub-lic schools? Research and common sense tell us that that all kids do better in smaller classrooms.

Education on the cheap is not an idea that Haslam learned at Webb School of Knoxville, which his chil-dren, siblings and other family members also at-tended, and where he has served on the board of di-rectors.

Webb’s website boasts two teachers per classroom in the lower school, an av-erage class size of 22 and a 10:1 overall student/faculty ratio. Lower School tuition is $15,480; Upper School tuition is $17,170.

“Small class size helps teachers know students as individuals and fosters maximum student partici-pation,” the website says.

The bottom line is, good schools cost money. Haslam needs to take his case to Tennesseans and level with them about the cost of edu-cating our kids versus what it costs not to.

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Marvin West

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Careful now, what happens next is critical.

The main event in Tennessee’s level of football is the remainder of the recruiting race that peaks in early February.

Recruiting is a high-tech combination of science and art. Evaluation is step one. If it is er-roneous, nothing else matters. If targets are correctly identifi ed, creative salesmanship becomes the key. Serious research is in-volved. Effort is endless.

Recruiters must fi nd the win-ning edge. What are the interests? What matters most? Is the pros-pect looking to be part of a nation-al championship or does he seek early playing time? Is geography a factor? Which relative or friend has the most infl uence?

This takes work. Commit-ments are the midpoint. Defend-ing those pledges is what pays dividends. There is no such thing as time out.

Case in point: On the Satur-day evening after that merci-

I love Christmas, and I used to say (foolishly) that “There is noth-ing quite so over as Christmas.”

I was a child when I fi rst sang the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” and it was years be-fore I learned what that was all about. I was thrilled to learn that Christmas was not so over after all — that it is a season; that, in fact, it is much too signifi cant to be stuffed into one day, or even one night and one day.

Yes, the Fraser fi r that stood in our dining room window during

Complex recruiting, uninvited Vol

less thrashing by Auburn, coach Butch Jones quickly changed gears for a gathering of recruits for a family dinner at his house. Barbara Jones is a terrifi c assis-tant. Sons Alex, Adam and An-drew fi t right in. Visitors could feel the warmth. Food was fi ne. Conversation ranged from light and bright to deeply sincere. Feedback was powerfully posi-tive.

To see the effort Butch Jones and associates cram into recruit-ing brings to mind the good old days and how Mike Stratton, big, blond end at Tellico Plains, made his way to the University of Ten-nessee.

Putting Christmas away But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

(Luke 2:19 NRSV)

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

(Revelation 5:5 NRSV)

Christmas has been taken down and tossed into the woodland to provide shelter and safety for the creatures of the forest. But I kept my little Twelve Days artifi cial tree up until Epiphany and hung

an ornament on it for each day of the season.

Now, however, it is gone, too, and the pine boughs have van-ished from the mantle. The crèche sets are carefully and lovingly stored away. The Christmas plates are back in their box, and the or-naments have been packed away.

The weather is seriously cold now, with only a skiff of snow. It is winter, and not Christmas, much like C.S. Lewis’ land of Nar-nia before Aslan, the great lion king, came and breathed warmth and life into it. In the Narnia sto-ry, Aslan is a Christ fi gure, and he dies, just as the Babe of Bethle-hem would do, for his kingdom.

I had determined this year that I would do something different after the holidays, something to remind me subtly of Christmas. Nothing so obvious as an orna-ment or a wreath. Some small thing to keep Christmas in the

house, even if known only to me. And that something just occurred to me, as I write. I know what I will do.

I have a lion.A dear friend gave it to me years

ago, a small fi gurine of a lion in midstride. His suggested move-ment is graceful, quiet, slow. He is clearly and most assuredly Aslan. He can stand in some quiet corner of the house, and I will know he is there. He will help me put Christ-mas away in my heart, where it belongs.

We often ask friends and rela-tives, “Where are you spending Christmas this year?” I suggest that we can fi nd a way to keep Christmas, instead of spending it. Think about it: what it means to you, how you might remind yourself each day that Christmas is always!

Put Christmas away, like Mary did: in your heart, where it belongs.

This was 1957. Mike had no four- or fi ve-star buildup. He was 6-3 and 205, established in bas-kets, a late-bloomer in football, a starter his senior year. He was the biggest and fastest on a squad of 18.

“If a college recruiter came to Tellico Plains, nobody saw him,” said Stratton.

If Mike received so much as a football questionnaire from UT, he doesn’t remember.

“I did get a basketball letter from Kentucky. I answered all the questions and sent it back. I never heard any more.”

Mike knew a lot more about the Volunteers than they knew about him.

“Everybody in Tellico Plains was a Tennessee fan.”

Uncle Percy Swanson took Mike to some games. Swanson watched John Majors. Mike fo-cused on that pass-snagging end, Buddy Cruze, No. 86.

“I wanted to be 86. I wanted to be Buddy Cruze.”

Even with the help of a miracle, it never happened. But Mike Strat-ton made it to Tennessee.

On the day before signing day, Tellico coach Bill Spurling said, “We’re going over there.”

Uninvited, they showed up at the UT athletic department offi ce. A secretary asked their business.

“Coach Spurling said we had come for a scholarship and wouldn’t be leaving until we got one.”

That was a new approach. The good woman carried the

message into another room. There was a long delay. Eventually, Ken Donahue came out.

“Coach Spurling repeated his words. The key word was ‘schol-arship.’ ”

Donahue went away without commenting. In time, George Cafego came out, scholarship pa-pers in hand.

Mike Stratton was a sophomore end on Bowden Wyatt’s 1959 team. He didn’t play much.

“I think I was the only player on the bench who didn’t get in the Chattanooga game. I was really upset.”

Teammates persuaded him to

hang in there.Stratton’s junior season was

better. He was second team. He caught a pass for six yards and a touchdown against Tampa.

“That was pretty good. We didn’t throw it but three or four times a year.”

Stratton was a senior two-way starter. He wore No. 86, but he was not Buddy Cruze. Mike had a few tackles and nine receptions, 142 yards, touchdowns against Georgia Tech, Kentucky and Vanderbilt.

There is another chapter to this story. The Buffalo Bills saw much greater potential in the “unin-vited” Volunteer. They invested $11,000 and turned Stratton into a linebacker.

He had one of the unforgettable hits in pro football history. He made the Pro Bowl six times. He is on the Buffalo wall of fame. He was elected to the Bills’ 50-year team.

Sometime soon, maybe next week, I’ll tell you some more about Mike Stratton, totally unrecruited Volunteer. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is

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Malcolm Shell

A memorable characterI suppose most people

have met someone who tends to linger in their mind and surfaces from time to time when certain events or observations trigger a re-membrance.

And, in 70-plus years, I have met a lot of people who fall into that category. But one in particular seems to stand out when I see street people, and I cannot help but wonder what event in their lives resulted in their becoming homeless.

As part of a Christmas event, several members of our church decided to cook breakfast for the homeless at a homeless ministry cen-ter. After the event, we gath-ered at the Cracker Barrel to enjoy breakfast together, and we decided to make this outing a permanent minis-try. I doubt that many of us knew what we were getting into, or we may never have made the commitment. Cer-tainly we never realized that it would continue for nine years.

So we made arrange-ments with the ministry center director to cook breakfast every Wednes-day at 7 a.m. We served pancakes with hot syrup, link sausage and scrambled eggs, and soon word got around that the place to be for breakfast was the Volun-teer Ministry Center. Sine the preparation time took about two hours, we got up at 4 a.m. and met at the local barber shop, crowded into a Suburban and were usually ready to start cooking by 5 a.m.

I met many people dur-ing the nine year period, and soon got to know the locals by their fi rst names. But on one particular morn-ing I had some business to conduct downtown and drove by myself. I parked in an adjacent parking area

and walked up to the en-trance. It was dark and as I approached I noticed a man standing in the doorway. I was a bit hesitant to ap-proach because he was not someone I recognized. He asked if I had eaten there before and I explained that I was one of a crew who would be cooking his breakfast.

We had only talked a few minutes when I realized this man was not a run-of-the-mill street person. Our sub-ject matter quickly made me realize that he was educated and had an in-depth knowl-edge of many subjects. He carried a pack which he had set down in the doorway. He reached down and pulled a cylindrical container from the pack that contained his law degree from the Univer-sity of Chicago. This diplo-ma was apparently the only thing he had kept to remind him of who he once was. He said that if he were found dead, someone might take the diploma and trace down his relatives.

I asked him if he would like to share his experi-ence that led to this, and he seemed anxious to do so. He was a full partner in a pres-tigious law fi rm, and certain events in his life resulted in his gradually taking money from the fi rm. His partners soon discovered the theft. Rather than prosecute him, they simply asked him to leave. From that point, his wife divorced him and his two daughters refused to even talk to him. At that point, he gathered some clothes and a small amount of money and left his home

during the night.When the rest of my crew

arrived, we opened the door and invited him in out of the cold. There was a spinet piano down on the din-ing fl oor. He sat down and started playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” I told him that he could get a job at one of the local hotel’s pi-ano bars, and that we would help him get some clothes. He thanked me for the offer, but said he was doing exact-ly what he wanted to do.

And it became appar-ent that what he wanted to do was just live for his next drink. A previous experi-ence taught me that giving a homeless person money almost always worked to their further detriment. I never pushed the offer fur-ther, but during the week I thought a lot about my ex-perience and was anxious to see him again the following Wednesday. But he never came back, and for several weeks I hoped he would show up. But he apparently found that next drink fur-ther down the road.

His story is like many others I heard over the nine-year period. There was some cataclysmic event that happened in their life that resulted in their addiction to alcohol. And from that point, the slide was down-ward.

But the thing that made him different is that he had the credentials and talent to turn his life around. He probably could have landed a position of law clerk in some law fi rm in spite of his past history, and he cer-tainly could have played the piano in some capacity. He made a bad choice to solve a problem, and I can only hope that somewhere fur-ther down the road he might have made a right choice.

But I doubt it.

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By Betsy PickleWhile students and fac-

ulty were going stir crazy with the extended holiday break last week, we tried to track down the principals of South Knox schools to help us out with an idea.

We asked them to share their New Year’s wish for their school – serious or funny, as long as it was three sentences or less. Here’s their wish list:

Lana Shelton-Lowe, Dogwood Elementary

Continue to build upon our successes by providing an environment that en-courages learning for both students and staff. We will take on the challenge “Dol-phin for Life” as we retain the best teachers and con-

tinue to inspire children to become lifelong learners.

Kim Wilburn-Cullom, Gap Creek Elementary

I wish the students and staff at Gap Creek Elemen-tary a future of success so bright that they will need sunglasses to see it.

Paula Brown, Mount Olive Elementary

My wish for Mount Olive is to have snow days with lots of snow!

Patricia Moore, New Hopewell Elementary

My wish/dream is for all of the students at New Hopewell to be profi cient or advance in reading. An-other wish: landscaping in the front of the school to make our building a place to be proud of … and yes,

more parking!

Beth Blevins, South-Doyle Middle

My wish for South Doyle Middle School is for any barriers to optimal success to vanish so we can contin-ue to show how excellent we are to all! … I also hope we get a REALLY DEEP SNOW before the winter is over!

Tim Berry, South-Doyle High

My New Year’s wish is for everyone in our South Knoxville Cherokee Nation to have a safe and prosper-ous year; bringing happi-ness and joy to each, while strengthening relationships with family and the ones we love. … Also to be victorious over Seymour in all levels of competition!

Looking ahead at South schoolsShelton-Lowe BerryBlevinsMooreBrown

Carol Zinavage

Carol’s Corner

Doc Severinsen shoots for 110 “My dad was a violin

player in a shipyard band, and loved the violin all his life,” says Doc Severinsen, recalling his childhood in Arlington, Ore. “But by the time I came along, he’d switched to playing clarinet in the town band.

“That outfi t would prob-ably qualify as one of the worst bands of all time. They practiced in a cement room. It was horrendous, but to me it was intoxicating. I was only 2, but I thought I was part of the band.”

The boy thrived on going to rehearsals and listening to the music. By the time he was 7, he’d set his sights on the trombone.

But his dad, the senior Doc – so-called because of his dentistry practice – had

other plans. “He wanted me to play the violin. I was just a little guy, but I said, ‘No, I won’t do it. I want to play the trombone.’ So he sat me in a high chair for an hour each day, trying to get me to see things his way.

“I wouldn’t give in. After three days, he gave up.”

Doc still has the chair.There was, however, a

problem with the trombone.

Blount County residents Doc Severinsen and Cathy Leach

pose with “the chair.” Photo by Carol Zinavage

By Stefan CooperHis health was fi ne.There was never going to

be a “best time.”Finally, after talking it

over with his wife, Kristi, Heath Woods settled for what he felt to be the right time. On Dec. 17, the long-time Carter High School football coach submitted his resignation to athletics di-rector Chad Smith.

The move caught many in the local football communi-ty by surprise. The Hornets were coming off a season that saw Carter go unbeaten through nine games.

Only a district title game loss to Fulton and an open-ing round playoff loss to Sul-livan South prevented the 2013 Hornets from becom-ing the fi rst team in school history to win 11 games.

In Woods’ 12 seasons as coach, Carter compiled a 70-60 record. Since 2005, his record is 55-33, a run that included a 10-2 fi nish in 2006. The Hornets made eight playoff appearances during his tenure.

Woods became a nation-al story when he suffered a stroke after being ejected from the 2012 season open-er with Grace Christian

Healthy choiceNew challenges, not stroke, spur Woods’ decision to leave Carter

Academy. After missing the entirety of last season, he made a full recov-ery and re-turned to make the Hornets a state title contender.

“ M y health is terrifi c,” Woods said. “The good Lord blessed me. I have really recovered well. I take very, very little medicine. The severity of my stroke was extreme; the rebound was extreme as well.”

His departure with such a backdrop might seem sur-prising, but it’s anything but, Woods said.

“I have thought for years about other challenges and other things to be done,” he said, “trying to establish something elsewhere. I felt like this was the best time to leave Carter, if there ever is a best time.”

While his health is fi ne, the stroke did play a role in his decision, Woods said. The desire to see if he could replicate his formula for success and impact young lives wherever he settled

eventually led to the ques-tion, ‘If not now, when?’

There was never a ques-tion of whether he would return to coaching.

“We checked with the doctors,” Kristi Woods said. “Most importantly, we prayed and tried to see God’s plan. I never had a second thought about him returning to coaching.”

Woods said he never would have returned to coaching had Kristi not signed on.

“Kristi has stuck with me through the wins and losses,” he said. “I wouldn’t begin anything without dis-cussing it with her. I asked myself, ‘What would be the right thing to do?’ Coming back to coaching was never in doubt.

“Her big thing was, ‘Don’t rush. Do what you want to do, but don’t rush it.’”

Woods said he followed the same line of thought before submitting his res-ignation. When Kristi was onboard, Woods said he felt he’d come to the best deci-sion possible for all con-cerned.

“It was just time for a change, and it felt right,” Kristi Woods said. “He put so much into Carter. We felt like he’d done what he could, and he’d done well.”

Since his resignation, Woods has been rumored to be returning home to Rogersville to coach at his old high school, Cherokee. Where he coaches next isn’t that important, he said. He just wants to coach.

“It’s what he does,” Kristi said. “He’s a teacher.”

By Heather BeckFor English tutor Jessica

Dean, the environment she has discovered at Pellissippi State Community College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus has only reinforced her dream of teaching at a com-munity college.

“While I was getting my undergraduate degree, I took a few community college classes and loved them,” she said. “My peers and my professors were genuine, and the college was diverse. I loved that en-vironment, and I knew that I wanted to teach at a com-munity college.”

Dean serves as an Eng-lish tutor at Magnolia Av-enue’s Academic Support Center and is pursuing a master’s degree in English. She also has had a unique opportunity to help lead discussions on the cam-pus about this year’s Com-mon Book, “A Walk in the Woods,” by Bill Bryson.

The College’s Common Book is shared reading for select classes. The book is used to stimulate discussion

and launch thought-provok-ing activities throughout the academic year. “A Walk in the Woods” is a personal narrative in which Bryson recounts his time hiking the Appalachian Trail.

“Earlier this year I met English professor Richard Patton and discussed with him my own love of back-packing and my experiences hiking,” Dean said. After-ward, Patton invited Dean to share some of her experi-ences and pre-hike training in a book discussion with the campus’ students as they worked their way through “A Walk in the Woods.”

Dean brought in a back-packing pack loaded with all the supplies needed for a three-day trek. She worked with students to set up a tent and fi nd a suitable sleeping bag, then led a day hike to House Mountain, the highest point in Knox County. Her presentations have brought a hands-on dynamic to discussions of the Bryson book.

“What I love about Pellis-sippi,” she said, “is how ev-

Jessica Dean shows her backpacking gear to students.

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eryone – the administration and the instructors – works to support a dynamic model of learning and enrich the academic experience.”

The Magnolia AvenueCampus is located at 1610 E.Magnolia Ave. Info: www.pstcc.edu/magnolia or (865)329-3100.

By Sherry WittThe local real estate mar-

ket slowed s o m e w h a t during De-c e m b e r ; h o w e v e r , the data from 2013 i n d i c a t e a notice-ably stron-ger year

for property sales than in 2012. For the month ending Dec. 31, about $157 million worth of real property was sold in Knox County.

That was considerably short of the $200 million in sales last December. The total number of property transfers last month was 729, also short of the 788 transactions recorded in De-cember 2012. It was the fi rst time in 2013 that the month-ly recordings fell short of those in the corresponding period in 2012.

Analysis of the yearly fi g-ures, however, paints a very different picture. For the cal-endar year 2013, there were 9,971 property transfers in Knox County. That pace was well ahead of the 8,713 sales recorded during 2012. In

terms of the aggregate value of property sold, the 2013 fi gure was just over $2.1 bil-lion, nearly $300 million more than in 2012.

Although the number of new mortgages and refi -nances has declined during the fourth quarter, the total amount loaned against real property in 2013 was almost identical to that of 2012. In 2013 about $3.74 billion was loaned in mortgages and re-fi nances, compared to $3.76 billion in 2012.

Among the noteworthy transfers during December was the sale of the old Bap-tist Hospital overlooking the Tennessee River in South Knoxville. The property sold to Riverwalk Investors for $6.25 million. The Universi-ty of Tennessee also sold the residence of the university president in Sequoyah Hills at a price of $2 million.

Our recording statistics do indicate that 2013 pro-duced a much better year for the real estate market in Knox County – easily the strongest since the hous-ing collapse of 2008. Here’s wishing all of you a healthy, happy and prosperou s New Year in 2014.

2013 tops 2012for property sales

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Heath Woods

“My arms were too short to reach the slide! So my dad got me a trumpet instead, from a friend down at the Shell service station.”

The memory still affects him deeply. “When I opened that instrument case and smelled that musty smell – oh! Into-o-o-xicating!” His dad got someone to scribble instructions for a C scale on a brown paper bag, and the boy was off and running.

“A week later I made my fi rst appearance for the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist church, play-ing ‘The Man on the Flying Trapeze,’” Doc says. “They said, ‘How can a boy that age know so much about music?’”

Doc Senior, admitting de-feat but still sold on strings, came to his own somewhat cockeyed conclusion: “Well, you can play the violin on the trumpet.”

Formal music study con-

tinued with Bernard Baker, principal trumpeter under Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony. “He wouldn’t cut me any slack,” Doc recalls. Eventually he found his way to fame on NBC, fi rst as a section play-er and then bandleader on “The Tonight Show” with its fi rst host, Steve Allen.

Doc cherishes his memo-ries of his long tenure with “The Tonight Show.”

Of his friend Johnny Car-son, the “king of late night,” he says, “People would be surprised at the extent of his humanity. He was class per-sonifi ed. He never passed up a chance to help some-body who needed help.”

Doc recalls that Johnny learned of an elderly woman whose refrigerator had giv-en out. “He not only bought her a new one but got her all new appliances. He was al-ways doing stuff like that, and nobody ever knew.”

Carson didn’t shy away from diffi cult situations. Losing his son Ricky in a 1991 freak accident “abso-lutely leveled him,” says Doc. “He went through the worst, but he used his expe-rience to help others” such as the friend who was in de-nial about his wife’s termi-nal cancer. Taking the man aside, Johnny sat him down and asked pointedly, “Are you ready for what’s about

to happen?”“Johnny didn’t sugar-

coat things. He wouldn’t let people go off into fl ights of fancy. He was there for them in a way that they ultimately needed him to be.” It’s clear

that he misses his friend, who died in 2005.

But as for Doc, he plans to be around for a while. “The minimum I want to go is 105,” he declares, “but I’m shooting for 110!”

Severinsen at UTDoc Severinsen will be the keynote speaker for this

year’s conference of the Mid-Atlantic and Southern chapters of the College Music Society and the Association for Technology in Music Instruction.

His talk will be at 11:15 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. At 8 p.m., the three winning pieces from The Doc Severinsen International Composition Contest will be performed in the James R. Cox Auditorium at UT.

Info: www.music.utk.edu/conference/index.html.

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By Sherri Gardner HowellIt’s irony in its purest

form: The generation that coined the phrase “Genera-tion Gap” and bemoaned the stodginess of their bosses as they entered the workplace is still in the Gap.

And today, they are the stodgy ones.

Dr. Kenneth Levine, a University of Tennessee associate professor in the College of Communication Studies, brought an eye-opening and instructional message to the Rotary Club of Knoxville on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the downtown Marriott. His topic was “In-tergenerational Communi-cations in the Workplace.”

The subtitle for the room of Traditionalist (born before 1945), Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1980) could well have been “How to talk to and manage those ‘kids’ in your offi ce.” Levine says the Gen Y or Millennials (born after 1980) who are entering the workplace today are a dif-ferent breed of worker, and the intergenerational work-place often suffers from a serious lack of communica-tion.

“In today’s workplace, there are receivers of the message who don’t want to receive it the way you want to send it,” says Levine. “It is important to under-stand these ‘kids’ who ap-pear to you to always have their heads down and their thumbs moving.”

The Baby Boomers were the fi rst to talk about the Generation Gap, and now it is the Boomers who are at the top of the Gap, says Levine. “Is there a 21st century gap? Well, there are certainly differences in the way the groups view life and career.”

The Boomers are com-fortable with “top-down” management, says Levine, while Gen X and Millen-nials like a more fl at man-agement. “Boomers are the original workaholics. The

Dr. Kenneth Levine talks to members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville about intergen-erational communication. Photo by Sherri Gardner Howell

Let’s talk …but are we speakingthe same language?

Gen X and Gen Y work-ers are looking for more balance between life and

work. Boomers believe success is achieved with long hours, hard work and loyalty. Mil-

lennials are more like-ly to want to work from

home and prefer a more in-formal workplace.”

Part of the problem for all the groups is that “we don’t know the people we work with as well as we used to,” says Levine. “Communica-tion is more diffi cult. Talk-ing to a colleague is differ-ent from talking to a friend.”

The Millennials are com-fortable sharing personal information, as seen in the popularity of Facebook and Twitter, says Levine.

The take-away, says Levine, is that it is impor-tant to know with whom you are communicating. “If it is a person in your orga-nization who is more tra-ditional, pick up the phone and call. If the person pre-fers email, communicate through email. Remember that times are changing, but we need to be constructive, not destructive. Ask how you can better communi-cate your message to bring down barriers.

“Think outside the box, but be prepared to commu-nicate inside the box.”

Rotary Club of Knoxville meets at noon on Tuesdays at the downtown Marriott. Info: www.knoxvillerotary.org.

Happy Yap Doggie Day Camp is a special place.

Nancy Whittaker

Who wouldn’t be happy here?

The South Knox camp is the ideal setting for very ac-tive dogs who love to play. Not your typical dog spa, it is a beautiful farm environ-ment where dogs are free to play all day. There are no runs. All dogs must go through screening and as-sessment to assure they are non-aggressive.

Owners Kevin and Chris-tine Abernathy bought the beautiful home at the corner of Davenport and Lippen-cott in 2001. After living in Nashville for several years, they were ready to move back home.

With a master’s degree in social work, Christine decided it was time for a ca-reer change. The appeal of a home-based business had always interested her and with three daughters, she needed a fl exible job and wanted to do something she would love.

Growing up on horse farm taught Christine all aspects of training animals. She and Kevin decided to build a

great barn on their property and start Happy Yap.

Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and dogs are accepted by ap-pointment only. Info: www.happyap.com or 385-3413.

Rossini gives business tips Director Larry Rossini

says the Tennessee Small Business Development Cen-ter (TSBDC) is available to help anyone who is interested in starting a small business. Staff members will work with them through the start-up process and will even go with clients to the bank to apply for a business loan.

Rossini spoke Jan. 8 to the Fountain City Business and Professional Associa-tion. Despite the frigid tem-peratures, there was a great attendance. Andrew Har-tung began his second one-year term as president.

The TSBDC will also work with current business owners to keep them in-formed of rules and regs or to help develop a budget. All services are free of charge, and various workshops are available. Info: www.tsbdc.org or 246-2663.

BIZ NOTES ■ Race Against Racism 5K and

Diversity Day, a part of the 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Com-mission celebration events,

Christine Abernathy gets a big kiss from her buddy Sunday.

will be hosted by the YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze Street, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, with food, entertainment, speakers and local exhibitors. The Kids Fun Run starts at 12:30. The 5K and 1 mile walk begin at 1 p.m., followed by the awards presentation at 2. Info: www.ywcaknox.com.

■ East Towne Area Business and Professional Asso-ciation canceled its January meeting because of weather. The next meeting will be

Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 8 a.m. at Harvest Park Commu-nity Center. Breakfast will be served at 7:30.

■ Tax Law Workshop spon-sored by Knoxville Area Urban League is 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 1514 East Fifth Ave. A tax professional will be available to answer questions about liens and lev-ies, earned income tax credit, settlements and tax debt and questions regarding IRS fi lings. No cost to attend. Info: 524-5511.

It’s 7 degrees outside and the ground is crusted in a white mantle. Brrr!

For those who doubt Nick Della Volpe’s skill with a shovel, take a look at last summer’s garden.

A warm thought on a winter’s day

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Nicky D.

Perhaps that’s what turns this silvered-haired noggin to daydreams about turn-ing over the spring soil and watching the garden blos-som into summer’s green bounty ... tomatoes, squash, peppers, string beans, spin-ach, fragrant herbs ... basil, don’t you just love its bright, complex aroma? Ahh!

But it’s winter. Still, there is time to plan the spring offensive as you roast your toes by the cocoa-enhanced fi re.

That brings us to Knox-ville Seed and Greenhouse Supply, located at 5001 Rutledge Pike (just shy of the I-640 overpass over Chilhowee Drive). You can’t miss that ancient, endless chain link fence surround-ing the place.

Business owner Ernie Rader and his long-term fl oor manager, Rick Haun, along with warehouse regulars and a greenhouse fl ower lady run the place year round.

Knoxville Seed has been in business since 1982, originally in the Terry Horn warehouses along Cherry Street and in its current 3 ½ acre business location on Rutledge Pike since 1992.

As the name implies, they have lots of seeds for your garden, lawn or farm, packed on the premises this time of year in country-sized packages (not those weenie, overpriced, 10-to-a-pack chain store seed en-velopes).

Need 50 pounds of crowder peas, for example? They got ’em. 50 pounds of grass seed? Check. You get the idea. You can, of course, buy home-garden-size packages as well.

But that is just the begin-ning. In spring there are fl ats and fl ats of veggies and herbs, and bulb sets, as well as an array of fl owers. In the fall, the mums are waiting for your spade, followed lat-er by white, yellow and pur-ple pansies. Then in winter, Christmas trees (both cut

and live-balled versions) and wreaths are there to help decorate the home.

In short, your year-round friends at Knoxville Seed have the stuff you need.

If I stopped here, you might just let out a yawn. But inside that working-man’s block building lie garden tools and garden bug and fungal sprays and solutions to keep your green thumb groovin’ through the July to October garden dol-drums.

Did I mention the ware-house stacks of straw, hu-mus and fertilizers? Or pots, fl ats, pro-mix starter medium? It’s there. That’s

just some of the greenhouse supplies in the business name. You also get friendly, knowledgeable in-store ser-vice.

“Hey Rick, I got these pesky brown spots on my tomato plants, what do I need?”

Long-beard Rick (hey, is he on Duck Dynasty?) springs to life. After laying down a country quip and a chuckle or two, Rick will walk you down the aisle and show you your chemi-cal choices, dispensed with country-wisdom and hands-in-the-dirt know-how.

“This blue copper ammo-nium fungicide works good

on that. Just mix it up in your old windex bottle and hit ’em once a week.” If you can read, check the label too.

This man’s a farmer, not some generic chain-store, shelf jockey. They’ve got what you need here, often in lower-cost generic brands. And if you’ve got a good crop, don’t be shy. Stop by and spin your own yarn.

Remember, this ain’t no fashion show. Just hitch up your coveralls, hop in the pick-up or SUV, and git on down to Knoxville Seed. No question is too dumb to ask – heck, I’ve tried ’em all al-ready.

Waterwheel makes historic registerThe Tennessee Historical

Commission has announced eight Tennessee sites have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, including the water wheel and gatepost at Westmore-land in Knox County.

Charles Barber of the ar-chitectural fi rm of Barber and McMurray designed the 1923 wheelhouse and 1925 gate-post for Knoxville’s Westmo-reland Heights subdivision.

The subdivision was in-

corporated in 1923 and the next two years were spent subdividing the land. Land-scaping around the water wheel and gatepost, as well as the subdivision, was pro-vided by Knoxville landscape architect Charles F. Lester.

The structures not only were an enticing entry to the new subdivision, the Fitz overshot water wheel pro-vided water and electricity to residents until city utilities were available.

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THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS, THROUGH JAN. 26

“Proof” by David Auburn, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Contains strong language; not suitable for children. Performances: 8 p.m. Thurs-days, Fridays, Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: 544-1999 or www.theatreknoxville.com.

MONDAY, JAN. 13Ossoli Circle meeting, Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511

Kingston Pike. 9:45 a.m., coffee; 10:30, program by Dr. Fred Bedelle Jr., author and former Superintendent of Knoxville City Schools; 11:30, book study by Wayne Zurl followed by lunch. Visitors welcome. Info: 577-4106.

Free Stroller Tour, 10-11 a.m., The McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive on UT campus. Focus: textiles and fi ber art from around the world. Parents and caregivers with toddlers or babies should meet in the museum’s lobby. Reservations required: http://mc-clungmuseumstrollertour.eventbrite.com or 974-2144.

Tennessee Shines featuring Jim Lauderdale and author Jayne Morgan, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Hosts: Bob Deck and Paige Travis. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.

Job Resources Group meeting, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.

Muslim Journeys: Points of View – “In the Country of Men” fi rst of fi ve scholar-facilitated read-ing and discussion program, 6-8 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club, 7

p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Paul and Barbara Akers will cover Appalachian Trail Through Hiking and a Top 5 Gear “Show and Tell.”

Computer Workshops - Word 2007 II, 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 14-28Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall,

11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Simon Brad-bury. Cost: $30. Deadline to register: Monday, Jan. 13. Info/to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 14-FEB. 18Yoga class, 9-10 a.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408

Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Betty Kalister. Registration deadline: Friday, Jan. 10. Info/to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15Martin Luther King Jr. Week Interfaith

Prayer Service, noon, Peace and Goodwill Mission-ary Baptist Church, 1723 Washington Ave.

Time Well Spent: Inspiration at Lunch featur-ing photographer and mixed-media artist Kelly Hider, noon, The Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. The Arts & Cul-ture Alliance event is free; brown-bagging is welcome.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “The Prin-cess Bride,” 2 and 7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Knox County Public Library’s Book Sand-wiched In series: “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football,” noon, East Tennessee History Center auditorium, at 601 S. Gay St. Led by Mike Strange, Knoxville News Sentinel sports reporter. The public is invited to join the conversation.

“Community’s First Words” event, noon, Strang Senior Center, 109 Lovell Heights Road. Music provided by Dr. Bill Snyder; appetizers and beverages by Matt Wilson. Leaders present include: Bill Wil-liams; Dr. Bill Snyder; Edward Harper, LCSW, Direc-tor of Senior Services for Blount Memorial Hospital; and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett.

THURSDAY, JAN. 16Sneak preview of “Las Marthas” documentary,

7 p.m., East Tennessee PBS studio, 1611 E. Magnolia. The fi lm will make its television debut 10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17.

“Research and Practice in Mass Grave Ex-humations: Current International Projects at the Anthropology Research Facility,” a lecture by Dawnie Steadman of the UT Anthropology Department, 7:30 p.m. McClung Museum. Free.

Brown Bag Lecture: “Archeological Excava-tion Discovers Knoxville History,” noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Led by TVA Project Archeologists. Free. Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.

Weight Loss Challenge 2014, 6:30 p.m., QuickGym West Knoxville, 12752 Kingston Pike E 102, Renaissance|Farragut. 8-week program. Coaches: Sylvia and Ron Garrett. Fee: $35. Info: 671-2199; www.

qgwk.com; ilost90lbs@aol.com.Free budget classes, The Good Samaritan Cen-

ter of Loudon County, 119 “A” St., Lenoir City. Classes provided by CredAbility. Info/to register: Karen Bowdle, 986-1777, ext. 12.

THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS, JAN. 17-FEB. 2“Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing” by Judy Blume,

Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info: 208-3677; www.childrenstheatreknoxville.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

FRIDAY, JAN. 17Martin Luther King Jr. Week: Gallery of Art

Tribute, 5-7 p.m., Community Forum, 6:30 p.m., Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. In conjunction with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

“Kidz Night Out” for ages 5-13, 6-9 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $30, fi rst child; $25 each additional child. Registration dead-line: Wednesday, Jan. 15. Info/ to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

SATURDAY, JAN. 18P.R.A.Y. Conference for women, 8:30 a.m.-12:30

p.m., West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike. Led by national speaker and author Debbie Taylor Wil-liams. Cost: $10. Registration deadline: Jan. 12. Info/to register: www.westparkbaptist.org.

Farragut Skate Date, 4-6 p.m., Cool sports: Home of the Icearium, 110 S. Watt Road. Info: 218-4500.

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

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

Saturday Stories and Songs: Charlene Ellis, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Introductory Internet Genealogy, 1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistra-tion, a valid email address and good Internet searching capabilities required. Info/to register: 215-8809.

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

Second annual Robert E. Lee Luncheon hosted by The Captain W. Y. C. Hannum Chapter #1881, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 11:30 a.m., Green Meadow Country Club in Alcoa. Visitors welcome. Info/reservations: Charlotte Miller, 448-6716.

Children’s Story Time with Miss Caryn, 11 a.m., Union Avenue Books. 517 Union Ave. Info: 951-2180.

Spellman College Glee Club and Temple of Faith Liturgical Dance Ensemble performance, 7 p.m., Clay-ton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Park-way, Maryville. Part of Blount County’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. Tickets: 981-8590.

SUNDAY, JAN. 19MLK Week: A Night With the Arts featuring the

Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 6 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

Shakespeare Out Loud: Richard II, 2 p.m., Law-son McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

“Southern Jews and Slavery” presented by Dr. Stu-art Rockoff, 7 p.m., Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments. Hosted by The Knoxville Jewish Alliance (KJA) and the Clarence Brown Theatre in collaboration with the theatre’s production of “The Whipping Man,” a Civil war drama running Jan. 30-Feb. 16. Production tick-ets: 974-5161 or clarencebrowntheatre.com.

Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Con-federate Veterans, monthly business meeting, 2 p.m., East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 South Gay St. Presentation before the meeting: “Love War and Tragedy” by Adjutant John Hitt. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Vegan Supper Club meeting, 5 p.m., Knoxville First Seventh-day Adventist Church, 3611 Kingston Pike. Includes plant-based meal, live food demonstrations and presentation: “Natural Alternatives to Address-ing Cancer” by Walt Cross. Open to the public. No cost but suggested donation of $10 per person appreciated. Registration deadline: Thursday, Jan. 16. Info/register: Kimberly Crider, 264-3894, or knoxvilleinstep.com.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Book Signing and talk with Jack Neely, author of “Knoxville: Green by Nature,” 4 p.m., Union Avenue Books. 517 Union Ave. Info: 951-2180.

Piano-trumpet concert featuring pianist Ryan Fogg and trumpeter Glenda Cloutier, 5 p.m., American Piano Gallery Recital Hall, 11651 Parkside Drive. Free.

MONDAY, JAN. 20MLK Week: annual parade, lineup 8:30 a.m.,

step-off 10 a.m. from YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

MLK Week: Memorial Tribute Service, 11:45 a.m., Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, 3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Info/parade registra-tion: www.mlkknoxville.com.

Tennessee Shines featuring Josh Oliver and poet Susan Underwood, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Hosts: Bob Deck and Paige Travis. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.

BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.

TUESDAY, JAN. 21PK Hope Is Alive Parkinson Support Group

of East TN meeting, 11:30 a.m., Kern UMC family life center, 451 E. Tennessee Ave. in Oak Ridge. Program: “Circle of Care. Help is Around the Corner at Home and away from Home.” Light lunch provided by Amedisys Home Health Care and Covanant Health Hospice. Info: Karen Sampsell, 482-4867, or e-mail: pk_hopeisalive@bellsouth.net.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1

p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Knoxville New Sentinel columnist Leslie Snow – “The Writing Life.” All-inclusive lunch, $12. RSVP by Friday, Jan. 17: 983-3740.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 2 and 7 p.m.,” Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Health care enrollment, 3-7 p.m., South Knox-ville Community Center, 522-Maryville Pike.

THURSDAY, JAN. 23Concerts at the Library: Jack Renfro and The

Apocalypso Quartet, 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Li-brary, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 23-24AARP Smart Driving class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Com-

munity Room at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Registration deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 21. Info/to register: 966-7057.

FRIDAY, JAN. 24Clyde Davenport & Friends concert, 8 p.m.,

Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12 (discount for JCA members, students and seniors); at www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and the door.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 24-25Mandolin workshop, 7-9p.m. Friday and 9:30

a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, MainStay Suites, 361 Foun-tain View Circle, Alcoa. Presented by guitarist Steve Kaufman. Fee: $90 per person. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 982-3808 or email steve@fl atpik.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 25Chris Jones and the Night Drivers in concert, 8

p.m., The Laurel Theater, corner of 16th and Laurel Ave. Tickets: http://www.knoxtix.com; 523-7521; at the door. Info: 522-5851 or email concerts@jubileearts.org.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Baby guru Char-lene Ellis, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Dinner, hosted by The Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Foundry on the World’s Fair site. Doors open 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m. Cost: $30 per person; $15 for children 12 and under. Reservations/payment deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 22. Send payments to: Lee/Jackson Dinner, SCV Camp #87, P.O. Box 943, Knoxville, TN 37901. Info: Scott Hall, 428-9900; Brian Fox, 986-5259; John Hitt, 689-4592; Ron Jones, 947-3394; or Earl Smith, 687-2732.

Turkish cooking demonstration, 2-4 p.m., The Atlantic Institute-Knoxville, 7035 Middlebrook Pike. Fee: $ 20 per person. Info/register: knoxville@theatlan-ticinstitute.org.

Book signing and reading with Craig Dilworth author of “Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecologi-cal predicament of Humankind,” 2 p.m., Union Avenue Books. 517 Union Ave. Info: 951-2180.

SUNDAY, JAN. 26Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Ferris Buel-

ler’s Day Off,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

MONDAY, JAN. 27Muslim Journeys: Points of View – “Persepolis:

The Story of a Childhood,” second of fi ve scholar-facil-itated reading and discussion program, 6-8 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

Tennessee Shines featuring Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin; poet RB Morris, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Hosts: Bob Deck and Paige Travis. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clin-ton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.

TUESDAY, JAN. 28Sports Illustrated Sportswriter and Commen-

tator Frank Deford lecture, 630 p.m., King Univer-sity’s Maclellan Hall dining room, in Bristol. Tickets: $30 per person or $200 per table of eight; available through Jan. 24. Proceeds to benefi t Scholarships and Programs fund for King students. Info/tidckets: 423-652-4864 or email jibrown@king.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Ferris Buel-

ler’s Day Off,” 2 and 7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

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