Roane State Community College’s Oak Ridge campus will host the 13th annual “Love Your Library” used book sale Feb. 19-20 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Available items will include paperbacks, textbooks, cookbooks, children’s books and more. Items will be on sale in the atrium in front of the library. Prices will range from $1.50 to $3.
Traditional Irish Arts of Knoxville has organized a weekend of Irish music, culture, and fun at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge and Boyd’s Jig and Reel in Knoxville, and it starts today.
It’s the 5th Annual Tune Junkie Weekend, and it will feature workshops, sessions, and a showcase concert.
The Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church has a rummage sale Friday and Saturday.
It will include easy-to-browse tables of items set up in the Social Hall and classrooms, yard and garden items displayed on the patio, and live and silent auctions and the Step Above Boutique, a press release said.
Sarah Hillyer in Baghdad, Iraq (Submitted photo)
Sarah Hillyer, co-founder of Sport 4 Peace, will be the guest speaker at the Girls Inc. of Oak Ridge annual Committee of 100 luncheon on Feb. 15 at New Hope Center, 602 Scarboro Road, Oak Ridge.
The annual luncheon honors a select group of women who each contribute $100 or more to help address the growth and development of girls through programs offered at Girls Inc. The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15. Girls Inc. invites women of the community to join the committee. To become a member of the Committee of 100 and attend the luncheon, contact Carol Mullane, executive director of Girls Inc. of Oak Ridge, at (865) 482-4475.
Moscow Nights (Submitted photo)
Moscow Nights, an ensemble of energetic musicians from Russia, will be featured performers at the International Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge. Moscow Nights’ concerts offer audiences an entertaining glimpse of Old Russia through music, humor, song and dance, inviting audience participation.
Festival goers will experience entertainment, crafts and cuisines from cultures around the world at the family friendly event, with musical entertainment on stage throughout the day. Participants will dine on international cuisine, children will make international crafts to take home, and all will visit booths displaying crafts and traditions from world cultures.
A plan for the proposed Southern Appalachia Railway Museum at Heritage Center, the former K-25 site. (Submitted image)
Although they had concerns about potential worst-case scenarios, Oak Ridge City Council members on Monday unanimously agreed to accept a state grant worth up to $480,000 for construction of a railway museum at Heritage Center, a project first proposed more than a decade ago.
By approving the resolution, Council also authorized the city to enter into a construction management agreement with the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee and Heritage Center LLC. That agreement calls for CROET and Heritage to offer the 20 percent local match required under the grant, or $120,000, as well as associated construction management services.
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Volunteers from Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, and Union Counties are needed for a Norris Lake cleanup on Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
During past cleanups, volunteers have collected and properly disposed of typical household trash, tires, couches, televisions, kitchen appliances, and construction materials including siding and shingles. All of these items would have been in Norris Lake if not for these volunteers.
Fans who wear pink to Roane State Community College basketball games on Saturday, Feb. 16, will be admitted free and will be supporting a nationwide effort to raise awareness about breast cancer.
The Roane State women play Cleveland State at 5 p.m. in the gym on the college’s main campus in Harriman. The men’s game follows at 7 p.m.
Jack Bailey
For the second time since Rotary International was born in 1905 in Chicago, a sitting RI president will visit Oak Ridge. He will serve as keynote speaker and hear innovative ideas at the Oak Ridge Peace Forum on Saturday, March 9, at Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ Pollard Auditorium.
The only other time a sitting RI president spoke in Oak Ridge was in 2000 when Frank Devlyn of Mexico came here. Why will RI President Sakuji Tanaka of Japan be in Oak Ridge Mar. 8-10?
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The Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue in Clinton is asking for donations from the community to help them pay for repairs to their walk-in cooler. The compressor on the cooler broke last month and the repairs are estimated to cost approximately $2,000.
The problem has left the employees of the nonprofit zoo without a place to chill the meat and produce needed to feed the nearly 700 animals that call their Granite Road facility home.
Pictured above are Gary Monday (Elks charity golf tournament committee member), Teresa Brittan (executive director for the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge), and Joe Wilkenson (Elks charity golf tournament committee member). (Submitted photos)
The Oak Ridge Chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks has donated $1,500 to three local charities, a press release said.
On Thursday, Jan. 24, members of the Elks Lodge annual charity golf tournament committee met with the directors of the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge, and the Emory Valley Center, along with volunteer staff members at the Holiday Bureau, in order to present each of them with a $500 check, the release said.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Clinch Valley (formerly Oak Ridge) will hold its Valentines Masquerade Gala tonight at the Rothchild Catering and Conference Center in Knoxville.
This is the largest fundraiser of the year for the club, said Donyell “D.J.” Jones, the club’s chief professional officer.
“The proceeds from this event allow us to continue all of our programs at the club with a larger amount earmarked for our after-school homework help, Teen Programs, and STEM education opportunities,” Jones said.
