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Kennedy: Learning life lessons at Wimpie’s in Soddy-Daisy

Staff photo by Mark Kennedy / Shown at a "man meeting" Wednesday are, clockwise from left, Tom Gavin, Rob Prytula, Tony Sanders and 13-year-old Hunter Sanders.
Staff photo by Mark Kennedy / Shown at a "man meeting" Wednesday are, clockwise from left, Tom Gavin, Rob Prytula, Tony Sanders and 13-year-old Hunter Sanders.

They call it a “man meeting.”

About once a month, Tony Sanders and his 13-year-old grandson, Hunter, gather with friends at Wimpie’s Country Restaurant in Soddy-Daisy.

(READ MORE: What to know about Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee.)

It’s something of a ritual, and much more intentional than it appears.

Sanders, a local CPA, his friend, Tom Gavin, a retired University of Tennessee at Chattanooga accounting professor, and Rob Prytula, a federal workplace safety inspector, form the core of this little huddle, but other men sometimes join.