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A Short History of Chattanooga The Chattanooga History Center will present A Short History of Chattanooga at 7:00pm on Tuesday, June 1st. The series will be held at the History Center’s interim location at 615 Lindsay Street, Suite 100, and will feature its Executive Director and Historian, Dr. Daryl Black, as instructor. There is no charge for the program, but space is limited, and pre-registration is required. The deadline is May 7th. Call 423-265-3247, extension 10, to register. This mini-course will explore the many fascinating layers of Chattanooga’s dramatic and colorful history, and will include some of its quirkier stories. It will also feature artifacts from the History Center’s collection, some of which are under consideration for use in the new exhibits at the Center’s new home.
 Sunday, May 30, 2010 at the Chattanooga Riverpark We will have a church service at 11am held by Rev Billy Denham. Rev Denham will also entertain the audience with his Chet Atkins style of guitar playing. The Scenic City Quartet will perform. Proceeds benefit a variety of Ruritan
Club projects such as college scholarships for graduating high-school
seniors, awards to local elementary & middle school students
based on good character, donations to schools, recreation leagues
and Friends of Harrison Bay State Park. As well as sponsorship
of youth to Freedoms Foundation, assistance to the Chattanooga
Food Bank, donations to the local fire department and assistance
to the needy and community citizens experiencing difficulty.
 There’s a rumble in Monteagle, Tennessee. Bikes & people of every kind are winding their way to the 2010 THUNDER ON THE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL & BIKE RALLY [THOR] this Memorial Day Weekend, May 28, 29, & 30! This year is packed full of entertainment and rally favorites JACKYL, BLACKFOOT, COLT FORD, GENEVA, BIG ENGINE, and a slew of the Southeast’s Finest Bands. Now ad some spice to your music with Hot Thunderettes, Vendors, Crazy Games, Bike Show & Games, Wet T-Shirt Contests, Burn-Out Contests, Craziest Campsite Contest, Body Painting by Gary Stroud, Oil Wrestling, Thunder Goddess Contest & a Lot of FUN! Get ready for the rally on May 22, at the THOR Kick Off Party & Poker Run at AJ’s Bar & Grill, Lebanon, TN. Live Music, Vendors, Bike Show, Budweiser, & Hot Thunderettes! Poker Run 1st Place Prize – THOR VIP PASS [$350 Value!]. THOR tickets ON SALE NOW. Go to ThunderOnTheRockOnline.com for the Ticket Locations or buy online. SAVE $20 when you buy your ticket now. Advance ticket price is $40 for the entire weekend or $60 at the gate. Follow us on our facebook fan page and sign up for our email newsletter, for chances to Win THOR Swag and more! See ya at Thunder on the Rock! www.ThunderOnTheRockOnline.com 423-290-2166
World-famous
Glenn Miller Orchestra Comes to the Chattanooga Choo Choo for
2nd Annual Pops Concert
Tennessee State Harley Owners Group Rally 2010 The Historical Chattanooga Choo Choo
Hotel will host the Annual Tennessee State H.O.G. Rally from
June 2-5, 2010. The rally will
be jam-packed with live music, parades, skill-riding events and
more.
Moo-Velous Moofest Returning To The Friendly City Athens, Tennessee to host festival that’s fun for the whole family ATHENS, Tenn. (May 24, 2010) – Good news, fans of family-friendly festivals. National MooFest, the festival that celebrates the dairy industry, is not only returning to Athens, Tennessee again this year, it’s also expanding to two full days, June 5 and 6. ---- More
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Plans WWII / D-Day Remembrance The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) announces a special World War II flashback entitled From Rail Line to the Front Line: Remembering D-Day to be held on Saturday, June 5th at TVRM’s Grand Junction Station. Harkening back to a time when our nation’s railroads stepped up to meet the immense challenge of moving volumes of men and machines across the country, TVRM’s vintage railway equipment, which will be operating throughout the day, fits right in with the WWII era. Additionally, many special activities are planned such as period reenactors giving lifestyle demonstrations, an armed encampment with field kitchen, military vehicle and equipment displays, and veterans reflecting on the “greatest generation.” As a special educational effort, Louis Varnell from the Southeast Veterans Museum will be bringing the “Battle Bus” which is a rolling museum of photographs, uniforms, replica guns, and other items that bring the war alive. All activities and displays will help present remembrances of the invasion of Normandy, commonly referred to as D-Day, on June 4, 1944, to move WWII toward a close. ---- More
History Center Presents Its 11th Nicely Tour The Chattanooga History Center will present its eleventh Nicely walking tour, Market Street, based on a section of Maury Nicely’s Chattanooga Walking Tour and Historic Guide, at 7:00pm on Tuesday, June 22nd. The History Center’s Executive Director and Curator, Dr. Daryl Black will serve as tour guide. Participants will meet Dr. Black on Sixth Street at the Regions Bank Plaza. The fee is $3 per person. Pre-registration is required, and the deadline is June 21st. Call 423-265-3247, extension 10, to register. This tour covers Market Street from Sixth Street to Ross’ Landing (a previous tour, Market Center, covered the street from Sixth to MLK,Jr. Blvd.). Though this section of Market did not develop with tall, impressive buildings, as did the section further south, lots of very interesting things happened there, including a labor strike, theatrical performances, newspaper publishing, tavern brawls, and the Bee Hive Store fire, which took the lives of two firemen later memorialized by the Firemen’s Fountain at Fountain Square.
4th Annual Chattanooga Dragon Boat Festival Teams are getting a jump start now, registering for an annual event that always makes a splash. Registration for the 4th Annual Chattanooga Dragon Boat Festival, benefiting T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital Foundation, is officially open. The event will be Saturday, July 24, 2010 at the TVA Park at Chickamauga Dam. Register online at www.chatt.racedragonboats.com. Top prizes will be awarded, but the real winners are the children treated at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital. Last year, paddlers from 49 teams raised more than $93K in pledges for the organization.
Get on the Boat! Local and club crew teams rave about the excitement, friendly competition and community spirit surrounding the sport. Teams of 20 paddlers, a drummer and provided steerer race in authentic 41-foot long Chinese dragon boats. Teams decorate their tents, wear their dragon apparel and cheer throughout this is their day and they enjoy it to the fullest extent! All ages, skill levels and physiques can participate, making it the ultimate team building sport, requiring synchronicity and finesse, more than power to win. Bring your best! Each festival team will get two on-water practices prior to the event and compete in at least two heats on race day on Saturday, July 24, 2010. Teams race in qualifying heats for the title of Grand Champion. More information is online at racedragonboats.com, or call 778-4688.
RiverRocks 2010 Festival Coming To Chattanooga in October Supporting Conservation Through Ten Days of Outdoor Action An exciting new festival is coming to
Chattanooga designed to celebrate, and support, the area’s
natural assets. RiverRocks, scheduled for October 1 through
10, 2010, will be ten days of play with a purpose. “Chattanooga
is one of the top destinations for outdoor recreation,”
said event founder Mike McGauley. “RiverRocks will be one
of the nation’s premiere outdoor festival, showcasing our
natural resources and the activities they inspire with a mix
of outdoor action, entertainment and family-friendly activities.”
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 Allied Arts Special Events The Chattanooga History Center's A Short
History of Chattanooga program continues Tuesday, May 25th and
June 1st at 7:00 p.m. Call (423) 265-3247 ext. 10 for more information. Visual Art & Film "Transformation 6: Contemporary
Works in Glass," an exhibit featuring the work of 24 glass
artists who are finalists and winners of the Raphael Founder's
Prize, will be introduced Thursday, May 20 at 6:00 p.m. at the
Hunter Museum of American Art. Visit www.huntermuseum.org for
more information. Theatre, Music & Dance
Hamilton County Schools Events Tuesday, June 8, Brown Academy, T4 – Teachers Teaching Teachers Technology. HCDE’s 5th technology conference. 20 sessions will be offered for teacher professional development including hands-on computer training. Session include Google toosl, Twitter, ELMO, Rubric generators, Electronic portfolios, Excel, Technology and differentiated instruction, podcasting, PowerPoint, writing, digital cameras. Contact: Preston Gonter, 209-8438
By Dalton Roberts GOD HANGS OUT IN GARDENS Sunday, May 23, 2010 The memory of creating a garden lingers with me like the smell of a clean, sweet woman. I wrote about it in October of 1997 in a letter to my dear friend, Cecll Null, the writer of the immortal classic “I’ve Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know.” This Sunday Journal draws heavily on that letter. Cece was the best songwriter I have ever known and probably the best autoharpist who ever lived. Most autoharpists strum. He picked it like it was a big guitar. He was my faithful correspondent for 30 years. His notes shimmer throughout my journal notebooks like jewels of all kinds and colors. I wrote to him, “My garden is about gone except for the winter things. Lots of lettuce,spinach and turnip greens. And the Cowhorn Peppers just keep coming in. “Took down the okra plants yesterday. It was a little sad for me. I have sat at my writing window many months now looking at two long rows of okra blooms on tall plants weaving in Tennessee breezes. This is the first year in my life I have had the mindfulness to notice how pretty okra blossoms are. “God hangs out around gardens. I can be stressed and walk out in the garden and I find instant peace. I know God is omnipresent but hanging out is a very special form of Omnipresence. “The last years of my first marriage were difficult for me and I am sure for my wife. My Inner Wisdom knew a garden would help and it did. “I could hardly wait to get home and get in the garden. I’d take my lawn chair down there and sit under a Weeping Willow. Now and then I’d get up and do something but God would say, ‘Get back over here and talk with me some more.’ “Sometimes I admit I woud cry. Yes, partly from sadness but also from the realness of the peace I was receiving. “I may not be an expert gardener but I do know how to heal land. I took a piece of land with very little top soil, foot-spaded it over and over and worked in 27 truckloads of manure and a load of river sand. “The man who owned the land I bought in ’95 used nitrates and pesticides in his garden. I knew when I stuck a spade in about a dozen places and couldn’t find a worm. Worms are God’s composters. And I learned that a handful of Lady Bugs is better in a garden than a ten gallons of poison. “The instinct that makes us make babies is kin to the instinct that makes us make gardens. It’s Life’s desire to see things grow. Instead of screaming at people to repent, I think we’d create more spiritual people screaming, “Make gardens!” “My garden partners were God, worms and a Hog Snake. Mr. Snake would come up several times a day and feast on aphids and assorted bugs. When he saw I liked him, he’d hang out with me for longer periods Maybe the original snake led Adam into sin but mine led me into a feeling of Oneness. I pray you will create a garden, even if it is only 10’ square. You and God will have a wonderful time there. This column originally appeared in the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2003 and is reprinted at the request of Dr. Ray Brock.
by J. Michael Leonard Wednesday, May 26, 2010 A custodian in Danvers, Massachusetts barely escaped injury when he was sucked into a vacuum-type sausage-making machine. When asked to describe the accident, witnesses said they never sausage a thing. (I won’t apologize for that) Also in Massachusetts, near Boston, a guy was arrested for trying to swap his three-month-old baby for a couple of 40-ounce beers. His wife became furious when she found out because she had already set up a deal to swap the baby for a carton of cigarettes, bada BING! In 1789, George Washington checked out The Law of Nations, by Emer de Vattel, from the venerable New York Society Library and never returned it. The fine for a library book 221 years overdue is around $300,000. You think George is going to pay that? I don’t see how, man’s been dead over 200 years. Meanwhile, a copy of Brown Sugar: I Bet Your Mama Was A Tent Show Queen, checked out by Thomas Jefferson is still missing. And I Quote: “Plug the damn hole.” ~ President Obama, finally stepping in and taking charge of the Gulf’s oil spill problem Meanwhile you got all them engineers and oil executives going, “Of course! Why didn’t we think of that? It’s so obvious. Somebody go get one of those big oil spill plugs from the warehouse.” They say a "bubble of methane" caused that BP oil rig to explode. Said a bubble of methane escaped from the well and expanded as it traveled up the drill column, bursting out the seals and finally exploding. Which gave me this weird déjà vu because that exactly describes the process every time ol’ Bud Leonard cracks a fart. Hey, here's you a story. A father, son and grandson in England were all born on the same day. That must'a been some neat trick, huh? How is that even possible? What? What’s that you’re telling me? You say they were all born on the same day, but in different years? Ooooh. Well, that's different. That's not such a big deal. Now, if they’d all been born on the same day in the same year, then maybe we got ourselves a story. But as it is, forget I mentioned it A leading expert in hearing and hearing loss now says that a side effect of Viagra and other such erectile enhancement drugs is a sudden loss of hearing. The question, then, is which organ is more important to the male collective ~ their ears or their winky-tink? To which the male collective resoundingly replies, "Hey? What'd y'say? Speak up there, sonny jim." Is kind of ironic, though ... guy gets tanked on Viagra, hits on a cute chick at some singles’ bar and then can't even hear her when she says, "Sure, I’ll go home with you." The journal Science reports that "maverick" biologist Graig Venter has created an artificial life form. God is dead. Long live God. Naw, you know what? I got news for that guy Venter and the rest of you, too ... there's all kinds of artificial life forms walking around out there and have been for years, and they weren't created in a lab. They were created in a public school. But, you know ... maverick scientist mucking around with DNA, using research done by others to create synthetic forms of life that are impervious to antibodies ... naw, I don't see how anything could go wrong there. Last week, the city of Los Angeles began a boycott of Arizona because of that racist Arizona law that Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano have criticized so harshly but none of them have read. Now the mayor of Columbus, Ohio has banned city workers from even traveling to Arizona. Wonder if he’s read the law? Everybody knows about the separation of church and state, but what we need more is a separation of stupid and state. One of those pious bullies from Saudi Arabia’s virtue police tried to bully the wrong couple this week at a Saudi amusement park. The guy started giving a young unmarried couple grief for socializing, when the girl got mad and just purely beat the bloody snot out of him, sent him to the hospital. Wonder how that felt for the bully, being on the receiving end for a change? But the whole thing tells me that even Muslims are getting fed up with Muslim oppression. Last week, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was getting it from hecklers during one of his speeches. Crowd kept yelling out, “We are unemployed!” Sounds like a tea party, huh? But I'll tell you what all that is ... that's some of that ol' American spirit of independence popping up in the Middle East, that's what that is. And yeah, I guess that's George Bush's fault, too. Of course, that Saudi girl will be whipped, jailed and possibly beheaded, but still. (Out of My Mind is © J. Michael Leonard, a freelance writer/illustrator whose work has appeared in Playboy, National Lampoon, Argosy, Berkeley Barb, comic books, childrens books and numerous other publications. Email: jmichael@hometowncleveland.com. His political/humor column, "Out Of My Mind," has published weekly since 1996. It is archived at: http://hometowncleveland.com
“RACE TO THE TOP” by Bradley County Sheriff Tim Gobble Friday, April 2, 2010 Tennessee has made great advances improving
the graduation rate for high school students. Last year, Tennessean.com
reported that the state’s high school graduation rate increased
by 11 percent between 2002 and 2006 ~ the biggest increase in
the nation. The Bradley County Sheriff's Office is located at 2290 Blythe Ave., SE, Cleveland 37311. You can call us at (423) 728-7300. If you would like to contact me personally, email: comments@bradleysheriff.com
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The most fun, unique cultural event featuring adrenaline-pumping
action, dragon boat racing grows in popularity, and this year
USDBF Club Crew National Championships will be held in conjunction
with the Chattanooga Dragon Boat Festival, featuring three days
of competitive racing. National Club Crews will race 200, 500
and 1000 meters from July 23-25. Festival and Nationals teams
will race 200 meters on Saturday, July 24. Festival teams will
look to capture the Grand Champion title. National Championship
division winners will take a piece of a $10,000 purse, and be
qualified for World Club Crew Championships in Hong Kong in 2012.
Festival teams may also choose to race in National Championship
heats against club crews from across the country.
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