The Secret City Festival in Oak Ridge includes one of the largest World War II re-enactments in the South.
Preparations for the 11th Annual Secret City Festival are under way, and applications are now available online.
Vendors and exhibitors can visit www.SecretCityFestival.com and download an application to become involved in this year’s event, which will take place June 21-22 at A.K. Bissell Park.
Applications are available for arts and crafts, exhibitors, and food vendors.
The Fourth Annual Clinch Valley Science Fair, organized by the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge Sunset and sponsored by B&W Y-12 and several other businesses, will be held at Y-12’s New Hope Center on Feb. 23 and 24.
Students in third, fourth, and fifth grades in public, private, and home schools in Oak Ridge, Anderson County, and Roane County may participate.
Cash prizes of $100, $75 and $50 will be awarded to the top three winners in each grade in each of three categories: life, earth and physical sciences. Teachers of winning students will receive School Box gift certificates in the same denominations.
Pictured above from left to right are Georgia Brownfield and Heather Gann of Emory Valley Center, United Way chair Tom Hilton, and Robin Biloski of EVC. (Submitted photo)
Emory Valley Center recently presented a check for $16,320 to Tom Hilton from Y-12 Federal Credit Union, the 2012 United Way Chair.
“United Way is a generous donor to Emory Valley Center, and we as employees felt the best way to let the agency know of our appreciation was to contribute to the fund campaign,” said Heather Gann, EVC United Way Leader. “United Way of Anderson County is such a support system to so many agencies, and we are also a support system to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities; it just seemed a natural fit.”
“We so much appreciate the donation of the many Emory Valley Center employees,” Hilton said. “We are pleased to assist agencies such as Emory Valley Center as they do so much for the community.”
Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka of Japan will deliver the keynote address at the Rotary International District 6780 Peace Forum on March 9 in Oak Ridge.
For the first time in many years, a Rotary International president will visit Oak Ridge on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 8-9.
RI President Sakuji Tanaka of Japan will speak on “Peace through Service,” the motto for his one-year term, at the Peace Forum that the Rotary International District 6780 will hold.
Oak Ridge is the site of the only scheduled Rotary peace forum in the continental United States that the RI president will address. RI has sponsored international peace forums in Berlin and Honolulu. The RI president was present at these events and will attend the peace forum in Hiroshima, Japan.
On Feb. 9, the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Oak Ridge will officially get under way as event volunteers and participants gather at Lincoln’s Sports Grille for a kickoff rally to launch their fundraising efforts for the year.
The rally will feature speakers who have benefitted from the funds raised at relay and will honor cancer survivors.
This also will be an opportunity to register a team and get in the relay spirit for the overnight event to be held on Friday, June 7, at Oak Ridge High School. [Read more…]
Dale Hedges, center, was named the 2013 CASA Volunteer of the Year for his work with work with CASA of the Tennessee Heartland. Also pictured from left are Kevin Balkwill, Katrina Atchley, Kathryn Hedges, Ashley Bryant-Cheney, and Naomi Asher. (Submitted photo)
Dale Hedges of Clinton has been named the 2013 CASA Volunteer of the Year by the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. The award recognizes Hedges’ 18 years of service as a volunteer for CASA of the Tennessee Heartland, which serves children in Anderson, Blount, and Scott counties.
Knoxville lawyer Katrina Atchley Arbogast, chair of the YLD Children’s Issues Committee, presented the award to Hedges at a dinner in Nashville on Jan. 18. A cash gift also was presented to Naomi Asher, executive director of CASA of the Tennessee Heartland, to benefit the agency’s work.
Hedges was selected as this year’s recipient for his longtime service, effective advocacy and consistent commitment. According to Asher, who submitted the nomination, Hedges is the agency’s longest serving volunteer and has represented 29 children in 19 cases during his tenure at CASA.
Join in the discussion of how you can help create a safe environment for youth at a bullying prevention seminar on Thursday, Feb. 7, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
“Creating a Safe Environment” is the theme of the seminar focused on the impact and prevention of bullying. The community is invited to participate.
Pottery, art, and music will entertain children and adults in classes at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge in February.
Pottery classes, taught by professional clay artist Sherrie Carrie, will be:
An Oak Ridge official will discuss the city’s state and federal legislative agendas during a Tuesday “Lunch with the League.”
During the noon meeting, Oak Ridge Government and Public Affairs Coordinator Amy Fitzgerald will provide an overview of the agendas and discuss the impacts of the 2012 election.
The Women’s Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge will discuss “Discriminatory and Prejudicial Thinking” during a Monday meeting at Grace Covenant Church.
The presenter will be Michele DeRieux. DeRieux has almost 15 years as a certified trainer for the National Coalition Building Institute, an international organization for mediating conflict and celebrating diversity, a press release said.
Scott E. Schlarbaum
Scott E. Schlarbaum, a professor of forest genetics at the University of Tennessee, will address the question, “Why All the Concern About Climate Change? Forests in the Future Will be Very Different With or Without Climate Change” on Thursday, Feb. 7.
The lecture will be in the City Room at Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge at 7 p.m. It’s free and open to the public.
May Wharton, founder of the Uplands Retirement Village in Pleasant Hill, Tenn., will be one of the subjects of a Monday talk at an American Association of University Women meeting at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.
Dr. Wharton, who came to Pleasant Hill in 1917, was called “Doctor Woman.”
Monday’s talk by W. Calvin Dickinson, a retired history professor at Tennessee Tech, starts at 11:30 a.m. Dickinson will also talk about Dr. Dora Lee Wilder, the first woman to receive a medical license in Tennessee, early in the 19th century.
