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July 17, 2017 www.knoxfocus.com Now offering onlinePAGE A1 auction services Fountain City Auction for all of your auction needs (865)604-3468 fountaincityauction.com FREE Take One! July 17, 2017 Thank you UT Veterinary Medical Center By Steve Hunley constant attention; the [email protected] doctors checked him reg- If like me, you have a pet ularly and the staffers you realize that precious supervising his rehab han- creature is a part of the dled him both expertly and family. Regular readers of gently. Each time I visited The Focus will recall the fre- Opie, I was given a detailed quent mentions of my little progress report. It was not Jack Russell terrier, Opie. merely medicine, but med- From the time I saw him, I icine administered with a instantly bonded with him. big dollop of affection and Naturally, my love for understanding. Opie has become some- In all candor, Opie could thing I get teased about not have received better regularly by my family. My care and treatment any- son, Stephen, for whatever where. The folks at the UT reason was describing the Veterinary Medical Center pecking order in our family treat their patients just as once, telling my wife Kim, “I we would if we only had the guess Dad loves you best, necessary skills. then us kids…” and sud- I’ve been so impressed denly stopped and started I’ve told my wife Kim that if over. “I guess Dad loves I have to go to the hospital, Opie best, then you, then I want to be taken to the UT us kids…” Veterinary Medical Center. Recently, when return- Pictured at the UT Veterinary Medical Center are (Front row, left to right): Dr. Diane Hendrix, Carol Tuft, Lauren If your pet needs some very ing from lunch with Opie, I Webb (with Opie), Dawn Hickey, Jamie Stuffle, (back row) Tonya Foster, Dr. Hannah McLean, Ashley Colantoni, Jordan special treatment, I would noticed that he was doing Neely and Dr. Marti Drum. Not pictured are orthopedic surgeons Dr. Kyle Snowdon and Dr. Whitney DeGroot. tell you without hesitation his best not to put weight to try the UT Veterinary on his right back leg. Need- his right rear knee and he and worried. carefully for any sign of Veterinary Medical Center Medical Center. less to say, I was concerned would need surgery. Opie had his knee sur- infection and immediate- is very invested in their You may well think this and I picked him up and we At that point his regular gery and it was very suc- ly began to go through the animal patients. Over the column is an advertorial, were off to Tazewell Pike vets recommended that I cessful. I quickly estab- doggie equivalent of rehab. next six weeks, it became and perhaps it is, but I can Animal Clinic. Opie’s regular take Opie to the UT Veteri- lished a regular pattern of There are quite a few steps absolutely obvious that assure you, it’s not for pay- vets Dr. Joanne HIbbs, Dr. nary Medical Center. visiting times. I was aston- in our house and I wanted everyone there truly cares ment. It’s out of repayment Lori Smith and Dr. Meghan I knew the UT Veteri- ished by two things: how to be certain Opie would about each and every one and pure old-fashioned Zeise did a great job in their nary Medical Center was a quickly he recovered and have no difficulty going of the animals in their safe- gratitude. initial examinations. Their wonderful place from past the care he was receiving. anywhere in his house he keeping. Opie and I and our entire preliminary diagnosis was experience, but I will con- Opie’s incision healed very wanted to go. Opie’s staff cuddled family thank you UT Veteri- a torn cruciate ligament in fess I was still both nervous quickly, he was watched The staff at the UT with him and gave him nary Medical Center! Hardy Johnson ‘keeps Council to consider short-term rental going’ on 89th birthday ordinance By Mike Steely term rental homes open By Steve Williams [email protected] their doors to temporary Hardy Johnson, longtime The ordinance to regu- visitors, especially during shoe cobbler in Fountain late signs in the city was major festivals, UT home City, only stopped working debated passionately for football games and holi- for short periods of time years before a final ver- days. Some of the upper- on his 89th birthday last sion was adopted. An scale homeowners and Wednesday. ordinance to regulate neighborhood associa- His son Jim, who manag- short-term rentals may tions want homes in their es Custom Shoe Rebuild- face the same drawn-out zones excluded from per- ers at 5503 North Broad- struggle. mitting rentals. It is esti- way St., would normally The growing popularity mated that more than have been working too, but of Airbnb and other cor- 8,000 people have taken he had to take his mother- porate and private rent- advantage of the brief in-law to the doctor. Earli- als of homes and rooms rentals in the city. er Jim also had been gone nationwide is perplexing From the city’s per- to Michigan a few days to the Metropolitan Plan- spective, the short-term represent the family at ning Commission and rentals have been oper- the funeral of his father’s the Knoxville City Coun- ating illegally since there brother-in-law. cil. On Tuesday evening has been no ordinance The shoe repair orders the council may actually to permit them and no had backed up. consider a first reading of way to regulate them to Hardy Johnson kept the ordinance. ensure public safety or PHOTO BY STEVE WILLIAMS going. The MPC passed their collect taxes on the rent- A lot of folks are 89 years Hardy Johnson’s 89th birthday wasn’t all work. He received cards, cupcakes and a fitting cap. “no recommendation” als as a business. old, but not many still work along to the council on The proposal would six days a week like Hardy a split vote, 8-4. Some permit but regulate short- … or on their birthday. “He’s the most excel- Hardy is the third in his Ocala Drive now. “People homeowners and neigh- term rentals in all zoning Johnson’s day was bright- lent human being I’ve ever family’s four generations of in the neighborhood would borhood associations districts but limit to ened early that afternoon encountered in my 60 shoe cobblers. His grandfa- bring shoes by during the object to including R-1, owner occupied residenc- when next-door neighbors years,” said Vickie Henson. ther, William Carson, was day, and grandpaw would R-1A, and R1-E neighbor- es in residentially zoned from Henson’s Automotive “He’s real. He’s the same the first. fix them at night.” hoods, those areas with areas. The proposed ordi- and Alignment brought over every day. He’s just got a “His shop was on what Hardy said his dad, Hardy finer homes, in the ordi- nance would establish a half-dozen chocolate cup- smile on his face all the used to be 2nd Avenue,” Johnson Sr., didn’t have a nance to allow short-term two types of rentals: Type cakes with chocolate icing time. It makes you feel said Johnson, who believes shop, and worked with rentals. 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By Ken Lay Hill’s action pushed the asserting her privilege. practices are about build- intoxication.” As While they may Knox County Schools issue to August as it shut The academic year ing relationships and posi- many bars and usually be open will soon adopt a new dis- down discussion for 30 begins next month and by tive reinforcement. restaurants there to the public, cipline policy which will days. the time the doors open, “They are meant to show are in the world, it they are allowed implement restorative “We are trying to move 40 elementary schools will the student the harm done can be surprising to refuse to practices. One-third of the a mountain with a bulldoz- have completed training and we work with them to that its actually a By Jedidiah serve individuals, district’s 91 schools have er,” said Hill, who recent- along with seven middle make sure that the same crime to be intox- McKeehan making them pri- already completed training ly met with 18 high school schools and eight high thing doesn’t happen attorneyknoxville@ icated in a public gmail.com vate places. So and the remaining schools administrators who voiced schools, according to Exec- again.” place. I thought you cannot get will complete training by apprehension over having utive Director of Student While Hill successfully these places were trying to arrested for public intoxica- the end of next summer. to implement the new poli- Services Melissa Massey. slowed the process, board make me intoxicated! tion if you are in a private All schools will comply cies during this school year Massey noted that the member Lynne Fugate Unfortunately, it is a business, and obviously you with the new policy by the before all teachers have new guidelines were a made it clear that she’s crime, a Class C mis- cannot get arrested while in 2018-19 academic year.