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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 • Vol. 4, No. 23
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Unitarian Universalist
church installs solar
panels.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Serving Downtown, Lookout Mountain, St. Elmo, East Ridge, Brainerd and Southside
Museum hosts
fundraiser for
planned move
By Emily Crisman
Community News Assistant Editor
13 Girl Scouts receive top award
Thirteen members of Orchard Knob Girl Scouts Troop 40182 of the Seminole
Area complete and receive their Bronze Award, the highest honor for fifth-grade
juniors in Girl Scouts. They selected Pet Placement Center, a nonprofit no-kill
pet adoption agency, and taught about pet awareness and the importance of
adoption. They completed a combined total of 280 hours of volunteering and also
collected more than 600 items for PPC — the largest amount ever donated at one
time, one worker said. The Junior Girl Scouts went a step farther and hosted a Pet
Parade to bring awareness to PPC and to the many pets that need to be adopted
into a good home. Scout members are Zariyah Clay, Maliyah Davis, Makayla
Ervin, Ariaunna Few, Tadasia Hairston, Starr Hinton, Makenzie Johnson, Kymora
Kirk, Simone Oliver, Jamya Parker, Elisa Smith, Jaia White and Jadyn White.
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Your Neighborhood
Audiologist
Chattanooga’s
HEALTHY
Wendy Halsey-Richardson, Doctor of Audiology
PLANNING A COMEBACK
COMEBACK:
Fire won’t be the end of Café on
the Corner. PAGE 3.
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FRUITFUL HISTORY: Avondale
Ladies Guild has accomplished a
lot in more than 40 years. PAGE 4.
Now located in a 1,000-square
-foot space in Northgate Mall,
the Chattanooga National
Medal of Honor Museum is in
the process of raising funds in
order to move to a larger space
downtown or on the North
Shore.
Through a successful banquet
fundraiser held in April the museum raised almost $20,000.
“It was the most successful
event in our history,” said Executive Director Jim Wade, adding
that the event drew 146 attendees.
The volunteer-run museum,
which originally opened in 1987
at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium, wants to
move back downtown into an
interim location approximately
2,5000-3,000 square feet in size.
Wade said he would eventually
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BlueCross Riverbend Run and Walk June 7
Staff Report
This year’s BlueCross Riverbend Run and Walk benefits
Children’s Hospital at Erlanger
through the health plan’s generous donation of $5 of each participant’s entry fee and matching
up to $5,000. The proceeds will
go toward the hospital’s mission
in providing the highest level of
medical care for sick and injured
children in the region.
The BlueCross Riverbend
Run and Walk takes place Saturday, June 7 at 8 a.m. at Riverfront Parkway on new courses
beginning and ending at the
Riverbend Festival location and
features a 5k, 10k and 1-mile Fun
Run for all ages and skill levels.
The 5k and 10k races are competitive events with overall cash
prizes and age and gender category awards. Both courses are USA
Track & Field certified. The Fun
Run & Walk is a noncompetitive
event designed to encourage everyone, including families, to take
steps toward a healthy lifestyle.
Wheelchairs and strollers are encouraged during the fun run.
There will also be live entertainment on the Bud Light Stage
and a family fun area with rides
and activities for children.
Entry fees are $25 for adults,
$20 for seniors 60 years or older
and for children under 12 years,
and $18 for Fun Run & Walk.
Participants can register for
the races by going to active.com.
For more information about the
events, visit riverbendfestival.
com/runwalk.
Publix donates more than $5,000 through 2013 Food for All
Staff Report
During the 2013 winter
holidays, Publix customers nationwide donated money at the
register to help their local food
banks through the Food for All
Campaign. Thanks to the generosity of local Publix shoppers,
Publix Super Markets delivered
a check for $5,094.56 to the
Chattanooga Area Food Bank
last week.
With this donation, the CAFB
will be able to provide more
than 20,000 meals to people in
its 20-county service region.
“Publix has been a great supporter of the Chattanooga Area
Food Bank. We are thankful
Publix and to all of the Publix
customers who donated to
the Food for All Campaign,”
said CAFB President Maeghan
Jones.
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NEW AT THE
MUSEUM
Over Memorial
Day weekend, the
Chattanooga National
Medal of Honor Museum
installed two new touchscreen kiosks donated
by the Medal of Honor
Foundation.
One kiosk contains
data on every Medal of
Honor recipient, while the
second features video
vignettes of the action
in which each Medal
of Honor recipient was
involved.
Jim Wade, the
museum’s executive
director, said the museum
has been trying to acquire
the kiosks for about four
years. Retired Col. Leo
Thorsness, the speaker
at the museum’s recent
banquet, made a call
to the Medal of Honor
Foundation and got the
kiosks donated.
The data kiosk features
a quiz that is popular with
young museum visitors,
said Wade.
“There’s no way we
could purchase these
kiosks,” he said. “Having
them here at our museum
is a great honor.”
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Museum
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like for the museum to move
into a more permanent 5,000- to
10,000-square-foot space.
Museum officials are currently looking at potential
spaces, and Wade said he is
unsure of the amount the museum still needs to raise in
order to move.
“Every little bit helps,” he
said. “Property downtown is
quite expensive.”
The museum will hold another fundraiser on the 70th anniversary of D-Day June 6. The
Tennessee Aquarium IMAX
3D Movie Theater downtown
will present two showings of
“D-Day 3D: Normandy 1944”
narrated by Tom Brokaw at
noon and 2 p.m. All proceeds
will be donated to the museum.
Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Coolidge will be in
attendance at the noon showing and will be introduced by
retired U.S. Army Gen. Burwell
Bell. The museum will also
have several artifacts on display
in the lobby.
“People should come to learn
about the 70th anniversary of
D-Day, one of the most eventful
A Division of the
Correction
Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient and recent Chattanooga Medal of
Honor Museum banquet fundraiser speaker retired Col. Leo Thorsness is pictured with museum advisory board and board of trustees
members at the recent banquet. From left are Rear Adm. Vance Fry,
John Brooks, Col. Thorsness, Sylvia Wygoda, Dr. Anthony Hodges, Chairman of Board Dan Saieed, Executive Director Jim Wade,
George Davenport and Charles Adams.
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happenings of World War II,
and to support our museum,”
said Wade.
Tickets for the event can be
ordered at community.tnaqua.
org/D-Day-3D-Normandy-1944
or on the Aquarium’s website at
naqua.org. A link is also available on the museum’s website
at mohm.org.
Email Emily Crisman at [email protected]
An article on page 1
of the May 28 edition of
Metro Weekly incorrectly
identified Lurone Jennings
II as the administrator
of Chattanooga’s Youth
and Family Development
Department.
In an attempt to maintain fair and accurate coverage in the Metro Weekly
Community News, please
submit errors to Jennifer
Bardoner, managing editor,
by phone at 757-6579 or
email to [email protected].
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atop Lookout Mountain.
Café on the Corner looks
ahead after devastating fire
By Rachel SaulsWright
Staff Writer
From the moment she
stepped out of her car to
see the damage at Café
on the Corner last week,
when a fire devastated
much of the restaurant,
owner Ruthie Oehmig
said the community has
been nothing but supportive.
Her mailboxes, both
digital and physical, have
been flooded with notes,
flowers arrived at her
home and she’s received
well wishes from hundreds of people locally
and afar.
“There are a lot of
people standing beside
me,” Oehmig said. “You
cannot even imagine how
much love I’ve experi-
enced. It’s amazing.”
Currently, the exact
cause of the fire is unknown and investigators
are working to determine
what they believe caused
an explosion outside the
nearly 100-year-old building that resulted in the
blaze. Crews from East
Ridge, Walker County,
Ga., and Lookout Mountain, Ga., worked for an
hour and a half to put
out the fire. Many of the
kitchen appliances inside
the restaurant were not
damaged and may be salvageable, Oehmig said.
Eventually, she said,
she plans to reopen the
local institution that’s
been serving patrons for
the last five years.
“There’s no point in
speculating at this point,
but [we will reopen] as
soon as we can,” said
Oehmig. “We’ve got now
just weeks of things to
plow through before we
think about rolling out
new plans.”
In the meantime, she
said she’s trying to find
a place to continue the
business’s catering operations.
Oehmig said she plans
to keep the community
updated on Facebook,
through the restaurant’s
monthly newsletter and
possibly even with the
billboard at the foot of
Lookout Mountain.
Staff writer David
Cobb contributed to this
report.
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Avondale Ladies Guild celebrates years, successes
By Rachel SaulsWright
Staff Writer
If you’ve ever enjoyed the Avondale
Youth and Family Development center, you
can thank the Avondale
Ladies Guild.
When the group
formed in 1961, renovating and opening the
center to an integrated
community was its No.
1 goal. A year later, the
plan came to fruition
when the center reopened to everyone,
and the group gained
momentum as a service
organization.
“We wanted to make
the community safe and
beautify it and we wanted to help the needy,”
said the group’s founder
Willie Mae Ferguson.
Over the last five
decades the group has
made its mark on the
community and the city
by getting the center revitalized, hosting Easter
egg hunts and Christmas parties, providing
Thanksgiving baskets
to neighborhood families, organizing clothing
drives, sponsoring children at the children’s
home, visiting nursing
homes and fundraising
for other projects.
As the guild celebrates its anniversary
in June, the ladies said
they hope to encourage
new members to join
and serve as an example
of what can be done
with a little hard work.
“If you have a problem, they need to get
together as a group and
address it,” Ferguson
said of her advice to
the younger generation.
“We were a group of
young Christian women and we wanted to
accomplish something,
so we went to work to
do it.”
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The Avondale Ladies Guild is celebrating 53 years of service. Seated from left are Lydia Torrence, Willie Mae
Ferguson, Eunice Rooks and Margie Cook. Back from left are Mary Ayers, Faye Stoudemire, Effie Jones,
Edna Mitchell, Hattie Bryant and Julia Blankenship.
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United Way helps stop students from falling into summer slide
Staff Report
this time, research shows
they are likely to end up
on public assistance or incarcerated. That is why the
United Way is supporting
30 after-school and summer programs that provide
students with extra help
in reading advancement
through the Lexia Reading
program.
Enrolling in Lexia is
free and around 2,000 students in Chattanooga have
done it already. For more
information about Lexia,
contact Elizabeth Tallman
at [email protected] or 752-0307.
United Way is also providing books for Hamilton
County Schools’ reading
lists at 18 Neighborhood
Reading Centers across the
city. All the centers should
be stocked and ready to
open by June 15.
For a list of both Lexia Learning Centers and
Neighborhood Reading
Centers, visit LiveUnitedChattanooga.org.
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they do not engage in educational activities during
the summer months. According to the U.S. Department of Education, students lose, on average, the
equivalent of two months
of math and reading
skills during the summer
months. More than half of
the achievement gap that
plagues at-risk-youth can
be explained by lack of
access to summer learning
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Unitarian Universalist church adds solar panels
By Rachel SaulsWright
Staff Writer
Solar panels may not be
the first thing that come
to mind when most people
read the Bible verse “Let
there be light.”
But one local church
is using energy collected
from 12 newly installed
panels to power its mission.
The energy Chattanooga’s Unitarian Universalist
congregation collects from
the panels will be sold
back to the grid and the
funds the church saves in
energy costs will, in turn,
go toward funding its ministries.
“The money that will
come in to reduce operating expenses frees up
some money for us to do
more good works, whether
that’s caring for the poor
or feeding the hungry,” said
Sandra Kurtz, chairwoman
of the church’s green sanctuary initiative. “It’s a small
step and we hope we can
do more in the future.”
In addition to the solar
panels, the church has
made other shifts toward
sustainability like changing
out light bulbs, making
temperature adjustments
to save energy and educating the community about
reducing carbon footprints
as individuals and a church,
she said.
“It’s really a vision of
stewardship,” said Kurtz.
“We hope to model this
opportunity for other religious facilities.”
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Moving On After Breast Cancer: Mind, Body & Soul
Staff Report
Saturday, June 7 from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Breast Cancer Support
Services is hosting its free half-day
seminar exclusively for breast cancer survivors. All survivors in the
Greater Chattanooga area are invited to the UTC University Center
to have fun meeting new friends
and learning ways to stay healthy.
The event will highlight ways to
achieve optimum health and peace
during and after treatment. New
guidelines issued by the American
Cancer Society emphasize the
importance of healthy eating and
exercising.
Survivors will start the day with
a presentation, “Learning to Love
Your Body After Breast Cancer,”
given by licensed clinical social
worker Becky Davidson. A local
fitness professional will speak about
the importance of movement of
any kind for health. Fitness options
will also be offered. Participants are
encouraged to dress comfortably for
a relaxing format that will feature
yoga, barre, tai ji and meditation.
If you are a breast cancer survivor and would like to register for
the free seminar that includes a
light, nutritious lunch, email your
name, address and phone number
to [email protected] or
call 629-2445.
Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Zielinski receives ‘One with Courage Award’
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or those who support the
children served by the
CACHC through giving,
service or voluntarism.
The Healing award goes
to champions who “have
the courage to make hurting children whole by
providing healing to their
mind, body or spirit.”
“Dr. Zielinski represents the best of the
best in pediatric health
care,” said Alan Kohrt,
M.D., president of Chil-
dren’s Hospital at Erlanger. “We are privileged
to have Dr. Zielinski in
our community as both a
pediatric orthopedic surgeon and an advocate for
children’s health.”
Dr. Zielinski received
a medical degree from
Wayne State University
Medical School in Detroit, Mich. She completed an orthopedic surgery
residency program from
McLaren Regional Medi-
cal Center in Flint, Mich.,
and fellowship training
in pediatric orthopedic
surgery at Arnold Palmer
Hospital for Children in
Orlando, Fla.
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church, school and club events.
Please submit event information, including date, time and
location, at least one week in
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COMMUNITY CORNER
■ City of Chattanooga
Department of Youth and
Family Development is registering youth and adults for
the technology-based Lexia
Reading program, offered
free of charge, at Avondale,
Brainerd, Carver, East Chattanooga, Eastdale and South
Chattanooga YFD centers.
Lexia, a worldwide successful
literacy program, provides
an exciting way to learn or
enhance one’s reading skills.
Call 643-6066 for more information.
■ The city of Chattanooga
offers free Career Preparation
Centers at the Carver (600
Orchard Knob Ave.), South
Chattanooga (1151 W. 40th
St.) and John A. Patten (3202
Kellys Ferry Road, Lookout
Valley) YFD centers. Each
center offers jobs list, resume
and job search workshops;
identify your skills, email and
computer help; and more. For
more information call 6436084.
■ Downtown Dazzlers Toastmasters Club meets every
first and third Wednesday
from noon to 1 p.m. at the
TVA Chattanooga Complex,
1101 Market St. in the Missionary Ridge building, Room
MR1N 403. Toastmasters
International is aimed at
helping individuals develop
professionally by enhancing
the art of public speaking in a
friendly, supportive environment. Guests are welcome
to bring a lunch and join in.
For more information about
the club, call 427-751-8192 or
visit the club website.
■ Eastgate Senior Activity
Center presents “Principles
of Living a Spirit-Filled Life”
on Tuesday from 9:30-11:30
a.m. “Got Medicare? Got
questions? Get answers!” a
Medicare Part-D workshop
is offered the first and third
Thursday of each month from
9-11 a.m. For more information about the senior center
contact Melissa Turner at
425-7826 or [email protected].
■ The National Coalition of
100 Black Women Inc.-Chattanooga Chapter is hosting
its 14th annual Candace
Golf Tournament Fundraiser
at WindStone Golf Course
Tuesday June 10. A hole-inone on hole No. 11 wins the
player $5,000. A hole-in-one
on hole No. 6 wins the player
a $3,000 Hawaiian vacation.
For more information on how
to register, call 698-0029.
Proceeds will support the
coalition’s Student Candace
Scholarship Fund.
CULTURAL CALENDAR
■ Brainerd Youth and Family
Development Center, at 1010
N. Moore Road, offers free
shuffleboard every Monday at
10 a.m. and badminton every
Wednesday and Saturday
from 10 a.m. to noon. Free
ceramics classes for adults
are on Tuesday and Thursday
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and
crochet and knitting class is
on Wednesday from noon
to 1 p.m. Call 425-3600 for
more information.
■ Chattanooga Department
of Youth and Family Development offers free line dancing
classes at several locations:
Brainerd (1010 N. Moore
Road) Tuesday and Thursday
at 6 p.m.; Glenwood (2610
E. Third St.) Monday and
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Wednesday at 6 p.m.; East
Chattanooga (2409 Dodson
Ave.) Saturday at 10 a.m.;
and Chattanooga Fitness
Center (next to the zoo)
Tuesday and Thursday at
12:15 p.m.
■ Chattanooga Public Library
offers Baby Bounce, a unique
story time for newborns to
18-month-old-children and
their caregivers, in the storytelling room of the Downtown
Library, 1001 Broad St., at 10
a.m. on Thursday.
■ Chattanooga Public Library
offers a weekly program for
children ages 5-11 called
the Library LEGO Club that
meets every Monday from
5-6 p.m. in the Children’s
Department of the Downtown
Library. This free program is
a fun way to create, play and
meet new friends. No sign-up
required and LEGOs are provided. Children can make individual projects or work with
a team. Call 757-5314.
■ South Chattanooga Youth
and Family Development Center, at 1151 W. 40th St., offers
free dance classes for youth
ages 5-18 Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 6-8 p.m.
Classes include ballet, jazz
and hip-hop. Call 425-3550.
■ South Chattanooga YFD
Center offers free Therapeutic Art classes Tuesday and
Thursday from 10 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Art
workshops help participants
of diverse abilities express
themselves artistically. For
more information call 6436810.
■ South Chattanooga YFD
Center is offering beginner art
classes for adults Tuesday
and Thursday from 4-6 p.m.
Participants learn to combine
a variety of mediums to produce artwork, including using
paper, wood, paints and
more. For more information
call 425-3550.
BUSINESS BOOSTERS
■ Downtown Chattanooga
Area Chamber of Commerce
is hosting “Closing the Generation Gap” with Merri Mai
Williamson, founder and
chairperson of Application
Researchers LLC, Thursday,
June 5 at the Sheraton Read
House Hotel, 827 Broad St.
Event begins at 7:30 a.m.
with breakfast and networking, and the program begins
at 8 a.m. The Read House
provides free valet parking.
Meeting cost is $15 and includes a full breakfast.
■ International Business
Council is celebrating its third
anniversary Thursday, June 5
at 5:30 p.m. at the Sculpture
Fields of Montague Park,
1100 E. 16th St. Attendees
can indulge in hors d’oeuvres provided by TerraMae
Appalachian Bistro along
with international wine and
beer while enjoying the work
of sculptor John Henry. He
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which grace numerous museum, corporate, public and private collections. No RSVP required. Event cost is $20 and
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Cash, check and credit card
accepted at the door.
SCHOOL NOTES
■ Chattanooga Youth and
Family Development is accepting child care and Head
Start applications for its free
and low-cost award winning
programs: June 4 from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. at Childcare
Network #152, 4108 Bennett
Road in East Ridge; June 6 at
Daisy Head Start, 9531 Ridge
Trail Road in Soddy-Daisy;
June 10 at the YFD offices,
501 W. 12th St.; June 13 at
Cedar Hill Head Start, 4701
Divine Ave.; June 18 at Childcare Network, 1510 Third
St.; and June 20 at Avondale
Head Start, 2302 Ocoee St.
For more information, call
493-9120 or visit chattanoogayouthandfamily.com.
■ East Lake Youth and Family Development Center, at
2409 Dodson Ave., offers free
GED and ASVAB classes
each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 1-2:30 p.m.
Workshops are provided
by Every Valley Leadership
Academy. For more information call 822-5985.
■ Free tutors are available
in all Chattanooga Youth and
Family Development centers.
Call 643-6886 or stop by your
local center.
■ Graduates of Caulkins
School on Lookout Mountain
are needed for a book Billy
Caulkins is writing about his
wife Nancy’s teaching career.
The preschool was in operation from 1935 on Missionary
Ridge into the late 1990s on
Lookout. To help document
Caulkins School, those with
memories and photos are
asked to submit them by
contacting Hannah Campbell
at 827-4616 or writebio1@
gmail.com.
■ Hamilton County 4-H has
summer camps for those
completing fourth through
12th grades. A variety of
camps is available: June
9-13; Jr. High Camp (6th-8th)
in Greeneville, Tenn. Cost
$270. July 7-11; 4-H Electric
Camp (6th-7th) at UT-Knoxville campus. Cost $235.
June 24-27; 4-H Target Smart
Camp (5th-12th) in Columbia, Tenn. Cost $240. June
30-July 3. Call UT and TSU
Extension – Hamilton County
at 855-6113 for additional
information and camp registration packet.
■ Mission Preschool, at 103
Spring Creek Road, offers free
play dates every Friday from
9 a.m. to noon. The general
public is welcome to stop in
for dress-up, painting, music
and more. For more information about Mission Preschool
and its services to the community, call 774-4495 or email
Emily Nasca at preschool@
missionchattanooga.org.
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the first and third Thursday
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Good Shepherd Lutheran
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more information visit 6969.
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Steve Loveday at 332-1402
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Visitors welcome. Anyone
interested in improving their
communication and leadership skills can find help
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enhancing speaking, listening
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HEALTH BENEFITS
■ Brainerd and South Chattanooga Youth and Family
Development centers offer
indoor water aerobics daily.
Call 697-1385 for more information.
■ Brainerd Complex, at 1010
N. Moore Road, offers free
tennis lessons for adults and
children Monday and Tuesday from 6-7:30 p.m. Learn
the game, the rules and how
to have fun. All lessons are
free. Call George Provost at
400-1128 for more information or to sign up. Sponsored
in part by River City Tennis
Association.
■ Chattanooga Dragon
Boat Club practices every
Monday and Thursday from
6:30-8 p.m. and some Saturdays from March-October.
Practices are held at Erwin
Marine Sales, 3100 Kings
Point Road. All skill levels
welcome. The club provides
all equipment and training
needed. Email [email protected] or find the
group on Facebook for more
information.
■ Chattanooga YFD’s Commodity Food Program offers
free nutritious food on a
quarterly basis. The program
is available for all Hamilton
County residents who meet
household and income
guidelines. Sign up online at
chattanoogayouthandfamily.
com or by calling 643-6420.
■ Chattanooga-Hamilton
County Health Department
offers free car seat installation checks by appointment.
To schedule one, call 2098204 (English) or 209-8203
(Spanish).
■ Chattanooga YFD fitness
and aquatic schedules are
available for download at
chattanoogayouthandfamily.
com. Each schedule features dozens of free and
low-cost fitness classes for
all ages, including seniors.
The 2014 aquatics schedule includes swim lessons,
stroke class, lifeguard train-
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heated pools: at the Brainerd and South Chattanooga
YFD centers and the North
River YMCA.
■ Chattanooga YFD’s annual Hershey’s Track and Field
Competition is Friday, June
13 at 10:15 a.m. Open to all
boys and girls ages 9-14.
Test your skills at running,
jumping and softball throw,
with a chance to compete
in Hershey, Penn. For more
information, call Richard at
643-6055.
■ A Dance Fever dance
party, designed specifically
for adults with cognitive and
intellectual disabilities over
the age of 25, is held the
second Thursday of every
month from 6-7 p.m. at the
South Chattanooga Recreation Center, 1151 W. 40th
St. The class includes a half
hour of dance instruction and
the second half gives guests
the opportunity to express
their “dance fever.” No prior
dance instruction needed.
Contact Jessie to register (at
least one week in advance)
or for more information at
643-5716 or [email protected].
■ Erlanger Baroness, at
975 E. Third St., is hosting
Stork Scoop Sunday, June
8 from 2-3:30 p.m. featuring what those expecting
need to know about labor,
delivery and postpartum for
mom. Attendees will learn
the basics from the experts
behind Erlanger’s childbirth
and breastfeeding classes.
The session is free but
registration is required.
Call Erlanger’s HealthLink
at 778-LINK (5465) to register.
■ Glenwood YFD Center,
at 2610 E. Third St., offers
free senior weightlifting Monday-Friday from 12:30-1:30
p.m. Participants get access to new equipment and
knowledgeable staff, and are
welcome to go at their own
pace. Call Ed at 697-1284.
■ South Chattanooga YFD
Center, at 1151 W. 40th St.,
offers Zumba fitness classes
Tuesdays and Thursdays
at 6 p.m. Call 425-3550 for
more information.
RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
■ The inaugural Bible Conference is taking place at Bible
Baptist Church, 1966 Northpoint Blvd. in Hixson. Speaker is Dr. Thomas M. Strouse,
BS, M.Div., PhD, Th.D., seminary president, author of 15
books, pastor of Bible Baptist
Church in Cromwell, Conn.
Conference dates and times
are Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m.;
Saturday, June 7 at 9 a.m.
(breakfast) and 10 a.m. and 7
p.m. (conference); and Sunday, June 8 at 10 a.m. and 6
p.m. Admission to each and
breakfast is free, though a
reservation is required for the
breakfast. Call 488-8767 for
your breakfast reservation.
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Color the Curve coming June 7
Staff Report
In the spring of 2012, 12-year-old
Ooltewah resident Kaitlyn McAfee was
diagnosed with scoliosis. Upon learning
of her diagnosis, Kaitlyn said two things.
She wanted to start a support group
for others dealing with scoliosis, and
she wanted to create a 5k run to raise
awareness of and money for scoliosis
research.
She did both.
In the summer of 2012, Kaitlyn attended her first-ever Curvy Girls International Support Group Convention.
She then started the first Tennessee
chapter of Curvy Girls. At that time,
Kaitlyn was wearing a back brace for
her scoliosis. By the fall of that year, her
scoliosis had rapidly progressed and she
had spinal fusion surgery in December
2012.
The second annual Color the Curve
5k is being held Saturday, June 7 at 9 a.m.
at Greenway Farms. There is also a second event June 21. Color the Curve After
Dark is the first-ever glow run for scoliosis. Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. Both
events feature a 1-mile and 5k run/walk.
All proceeds for both events will be
donated to the National Scoliosis Foundation.
For more information, visit colorthecurve.com or facebook.com/colorthecurve.
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