Knoxville, TN (WOKI / WVLT) The Pat Summitt Foundation is expected to rollout a new nationwide program in honor of the Lady VFL’s 72nd birthday.
Created by the foundation with help from the University of Tennessee Extension Family and Consumer Sciences, Pat’s Gameplan, aims to provide resources to those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
The goal is for it to be a one-stop resource that gives insight from Summitt’s own doctor: Dr. Ron Petersen of the Mayo Clinic.
“June’s just a big month, her birthday. It’s also Brain Health Awareness Month, so it gives us an opportunity to talk more about the disease while remembering Coach Summit and the impact that she had, not just in college basketball, but in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease,” Director of Strategic Initiatives and Advancement for the Pat Summit Foundation Morgan Vance said.
The program will include topics like legal planning and financial advice, along with a “share my story” section from everyday caregivers. Looking ahead, the foundation is expected to add topics like nutrition advice.
More than 11 million Americans serve as primary caregivers for someone facing Alzheimer’s or dementia. The foundation said the lack of support for those caregivers can create stress and make caring for those loved ones hard.
“When Pat started the foundation, that was one of her main goals,” Vance said. “She said ‘I want us to take care of the caregivers.’ I was talking to a provider not too long ago who said ‘I’m so glad that you all are tackling this, because the amount of caregivers I get in our office that have so many questions, but they don’t have the legal documents in place for us to actually help them.’”
A TBI Amber Alert remains active for missing, now 8 year-old Summer Wells out of Hawkins County.
This Saturday marks three years since then five-year-old Summer Wells disappeared from her home on Ben Hill Road in the Beech Creek Community. Hours later, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Child Alert for her that would turn into an AMBER Alert the following day.
They have released an age-progressed photo of Summer and officials have not received any tips that have led to finding her.
Her parents believe someone took Summer and her brothers were removed from their custody shortly after her disappearance. Her father spent almost a year in jail after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge.
Anyone who has any credible information about the whereabouts of Summer Wells is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND.
The Knoxville Fire Department is investigating an early morning (Thursday) fire in South Knoxville.
When crews were responding to the call for a house fire at the corner of Eddington Road and Willoughby Road they found a structure fire a short distance away on Maple Lane, a county address, which turned out to be a detached garage.
The fire had spread to nearby vegetation and debris but crews were able to quickly put everything out.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the drowning death of a 2-year-old girl in Tellico Plains.
First responders were dispatched to a home yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon for a drowning. Officials say some children were playing outside with their mother when she went inside for a restroom break. When she returned outside, she was searching for the children when she saw the girl floating in the pool.
She got the child out of the pool and performed CPR until first responders arrived and took over CPR until EMS arrived and took her to the Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Rockford, TN (WOKI) The suspect at the center of Tuesday’s shooting of two Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies and standoff with police now faces over a dozen charges in the incident.
BCSO says 59-year-old Ronald Millsaps is charged with seven counts of aggravated assault, two counts of attempted criminal homicide, one count of especially aggravated kidnapping and four counts of reckless endangerment after firing upon law enforcement who were called to his residence on Jacob Springs Boulevard in Rockford for a domestic dispute.
Deputies Corbin Smith and Edward Walker were each shot in the leg during the exchange but have since been released from the hospital.
According to BCSO, Millsaps is in custody at the Blount County Correctional Facility on a $2.2 million bond. He is due in court on Monday, June 17.
Pensacola, FL (WOKI) The biological mother of Abigail Velez, the 16-year-old Tennessee girl who went missing in Pensacola, Florida last week, is facing charges.
Pensacola police say Crystal Hornsby was arrested for interference with child custody in St. Petersburg. She’s currently in Pinellas County Jail.
Police add that Hornsby helped Velez travel from Pensacola to St. Petersburg.
Velez is the daughter of an East Tennessee police officer. She went missing Thursday night while on vacation in Florida after last being seen at Baptist Hospital. She was found safe Tuesday.
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The Knoxville City Council approves a resolution that would unlock $150,000 to nonprofits and organizations focused on revitalizing East Knoxville.
That money would be provided through a grant from the city’s African American equity restoration task force which was established by the council in 2020. The resolution will split the money among eighteen groups who applied for the grant.
Here’s how the proposal breaks that funding down:
UNNIK Academy: $25,000.00
Renaissance Creations: $15,000.00
New Direction Health Care: $20,000.00
The Women, LLC: $10,000.00
SEEED: $5,000.00
Girl Talk, Inc.: $10,000.00
East TN Freedom Schools: $10,000.00
C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Ministries: $5,000.00
Gennisi Charitable Birth Services: $5,000.00
East TN Housing Development Corp: $5,000.00
Evergreen Community Development Corp: $5,000.00
National Coalition of 100 Black Women: $5,000.00
Closer Walk Re-entry: $5,000.00
A1 Learning Connections: $5,000.00
The Bottom: $5,000.00
YoStem!: $5,000.00
Drums Up Guns Down: $5,000.00
Karate 5: $5,000
City Council also approved the first reading of a proposal that would rezone the Sunsphere as a historic building.
This would not change its base zoning classification. The Sunsphere is back open after construction was being done on its observation deck.
