The Oak Ridge Municipal Swimming Pool will be open May 25, 26, 27, and June 1 and 2, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. The pool will open full time June 5.
For more information, call the Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Department at (865) 425-3450 or visit the website at www.orrecparks.org.
Sumner Byrne
Guitars have been tuned, harmonies rehearsed and dance steps practiced in preparation for Friday’s opening of the second season of the Coffeehouse at First Presbyterian Church. The coffeehouse was started by college students last summer as a musical venue to enjoy together while raising funds for the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge.
“We had no idea how much fun the coffeehouse events were going to be when we started last year,” said organizer Sumner Byrne, a college student at George Washington University. “It became clear that the young adult crowd needed a place to hang out, listen to some great music, and reconnect with friends who are normally away at school. [Read more…]
Denise Kiernan
Denise Kiernan, author of “The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II,” will speak at Lunch with the League on Tuesday.
The program begins at noon Tuesday in the Social Hall of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church at 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
“The Girls of Atomic City” is the true story of the young women during World War II who lived and worked in Oak Ridge, one of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities. Through their efforts were crucial to the development of the world’s first atomic bomb, the vast majority of Oak Ridge residents did not know what they were working on until the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” detonated above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. [Read more…]
More than 15 women volunteered on a Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County construction site earlier this month in recognition of National Women Build Week. Now in its sixth year, National Women Build Week challenges women to devote at least one day to help repair or build affordable housing in their local communities.
The volunteers worked to provide weatherization services and exterior repairs to a home owned by a single mother with three children. While new siding was being installed by volunteers, other volunteers worked on landscaping and yard maintenance. [Read more…]
First Baptist Church of Clinton will be the hosting a second Anderson County Remote Area Medical Expedition Sept. 21 thru Sept. 22 this year. Their mission is to serve those in need of vision, dental, and medical services.
The Anderson County Remote Area Medical Clinic will be a free medical clinic supported by volunteers and donations. There is an informational meeting this evening for those interested in helping with the two-day event in September. [Read more…]
The Boys and Girls Club of Oak Ridge will have its annual spring picnic from 5 to 7:30 p.m. today at 102 South Jefferson Circle.
The all-you-can-eat picnic is $5, and it will include hamburgers and hot dogs and the opportunity to watch some youth baseball, a press release said.
An AAUW luncheon meeting today features a fun program, the introduction of college scholarship recipients, and the induction of new officers, a press release said.
AAUW member Peggy Emmett, who has won many regional and national dance competitions, and her dance partner Sam Gordon will give a program on dance, the release said. They will perform some of the routines that Emmett, with her interest in theater, has created, the release said.
Gordon owns Go Dance Studio on Shaeffer Road in Knoxville. [Read more…]
The Oak Ridge Public Library is offering the community free tutorials for operating many different types of Kindles starting May 21.
Joan Kearney, a Kindle enthusiast, has worked at the Library for 30 years and owns different types of Kindles. She can help walk you through the checkout process on your Kindle device, whether it’s a first-generation Kindle or the latest version so you can explore the library’s electronic collection. [Read more…]
Plans call for converting the Alexander Inn, formerly known as The Guest House, into an assisted living center. An East Tennessee nonprofit will have an estate sale there on May 25.
An East Tennessee nonprofit organization will have an estate sale at the Alexander Inn on May 25.
The historic two-story hotel, unused for about two decades, is being converted into an assisted living center. The estate sale will give the public a one-time opportunity to walk through a portion of the historic inn before renovations begin and purchase furnishings from the 1940s through the 1980s, a press release said.
The sale, which is scheduled form 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 25, is being organized by the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance in conjunction with Knox Heritage’s Salvage Room. [Read more…]
Sister’s coming, so brace yourself—for an evening of good-hearted fun! The Ulster Project is hosting her newest comedy act, “Late Nite Catechism Las Vegas: Sister Rolls the Dice!” on Saturday, May 18, as the finale to their fundraiser. Sister will appear on stage to “instruct” the East Tennessee audience at St. Mary’s School gym, 327 Vermont Ave., Oak Ridge.
The Naples News calls the new show “sharp, witty and spectacularly brilliant.” [Read more…]
The Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will hold its monthly luncheon lecture meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting will feature speaker Lonnie J. Love, who will discuss the development of 3-D printing and other advanced manufacturing applications at ORNL, a press release said. [Read more…]
On an ORICL-sponsored trip to Chattanooga during the winter-spring term, Carolyn Krause, left, Richard Wright, Murray Martin, and Pat DeRoos enjoy the trip along the Tennessee River in a catamaran. (Submitted photo)
Would you like to know how to develop an estate plan, protect your life’s savings from investment mistakes, take better photos with a digital camera, and control the growth of kudzu?
If so, you may want to consider becoming a member of the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning, or registering for summer classes and trips if you already are.
The summer semester of ORICL starts June 10 and ends Aug. 9. The early registration deadline is May 15. [Read more…]
