From a regatta and football to a car show and pumpkin festival, there is much to do in Oak Ridge this weekend.
Tonight, the Oak Ridge Wildcats football team wraps up its regular season with a 7:30 p.m. game at Campbell County.
On Saturday, the Secret City Head Race starts at 8 a.m. at the Oak Ridge Marina, and the annual Pumpkin Fest starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. in Grove Center.
The first annual car and motorcycle show starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. at Oak Ridge Mall. The show will include trophies for best paint, engine, interior, car, truck, and motorcycle, according to information compiled by the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau. There will be door prizes, food, music, and Halloween costume contest.
The ORCVB said a Saturday afternoon talk with an East Tennessee “ghost seeker” at the Oak Ridge Public Library has been canceled.
On Saturday evening, the UT Arboretum Society has an Owl Prowl at the UT Arboretum on South Illinois Avenue. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and ends at– 10 p.m.
On Sunday, the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra has a free Halloween Concert –at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church at Oak Ridge Turnpike and Lafayette Drive.
For more information on the Secret City Head Race, visit the Oak Ridge Rowing Association at www.orra.org or call (865) 482-6538.
For more information on the Pumpkin Fest, sponsored by Grove Center merchants, call (865) 272-3009.
For more information on the car show, call Chris at (865) 403-9227 or send an e-mail to [email protected].
For more information on the Owl Prowl, visit www.discoveret.org/utarboretum/events.htm or call (865) 483-3571.
For more information on the Halloween Concert, call (865) 482-4432, or send an email to [email protected] or [email protected].
mushroopmcloud says
Went shopping in Oak Ridge to buy some paint and their ADA Wheelchair Accessible Parking was illegal—- the city of Oak Ridge, Police, plannning, code enforcement, city council have alll failed to notify Home Depo that they have had illegal parking since 2008……wow what a record. We can have regattas, rowing but let Senior Citizens and the disabled try to find parking is almost like a duck shoot in Oak Ridge.
Kay Williamson says
well next time don’t shop HOME DEPOT, SHOP ACE HARDWARE OR DOWNTOWN HARDWARE,
CK says
Or go to Tinsletown. They have NO parking unless you are handicapped. You should buy an RV and move onto their parking lot. Live on popcorn and M&M’s . LOL The good life.
MW224 says
what happened to your post to say you were not going to post on Oak Ridge today for going off topic? That lasted less than 6 hours. John even asked you to stay on topic…Are there any businesses in Oak Ridge that meet your parking expectations?
CK says
TinselTown has to be acceptable 🙂
WestEnder says
Maybe if you said WHAT is illegal about it someone from Home Depot will see this and think that it might be a valid comment, instead of pointless repeated whining like I see it.
agent86 says
I suspect that Leroy’s “complaint” is that, even though Home Depot has some 12 handicap parking spaces, none meet the specifications for “van-accessible”. The “van-accessible” ones appear to be of fairly recent implementation and therefore, like in almost all such instances, businesses don’t have to retrofit to the new regs unless they do some sort of renovation. It would be my observation that while the “van-accessible” regulations are well intentioned, they are almost impossible to enforce even when such parking spaces are provided, as they are in Oak Ridge at the Wal-mart because people ignore the markings and don’t leave the required double sized spaces open. Leroy may be morally right, but he’s just uselessly tilting at windmills with his complaints.