The Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau is hosting an open house to celebrate National Tourism Week on Thursday. Join them for light refreshments between 3 and 5 p.m.
Water safety instructor course starts May 16
The Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Department is offering an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor class starting May 16. After successfully completing this course, the participant will be able to teach American Red Cross water classes.
Aftah Party performs in Oak Ridge on Friday night
Aftah Party will perform Friday in the second show of the Secret City Sounds concert series at A.K. Bissell Park. The show begins at 7 p.m.
This ten-piece band, formed by brothers Ken and Keith Brown and their longtime friend Melvin Ellis, will be playing a mixture of funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, and rock at the park’s pavilion.
Sound Company’s spring performance this weekend
Sound Company will perform its spring show at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12.
The show, “One World, One Voice“, will be at The Grove Theater at High Places Church. There will also be a school showing on Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.
Rotary Club raises community funds May 19
The Rotary Club of Oak Ridge will host an evening of dinner and dancing on Saturday, May 19, to raise funds for community projects and nonprofit organizations. The fundraiser, called the Community Fund Event, starts at 6 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel.
A chance to see Freels Bend Cabin, city’s oldest structure
A nonprofit organization will have its monthly meeting at the Freels Bend Cabin on Thursday, a rare opportunity to see the oldest structure in Oak Ridge.
The regular monthly meeting of the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association is not unusual, but the location this week is.
The ORHPA will meet Thursday at Freels Bend Cabin, providing a rare opportunity to see the oldest structure in Oak Ridge.
Built in 1844, the cabin is on U.S. Department of Energy land, and access to it is normally restricted.
Shapiro honored at Children’s Museum
Led by music teacher Erica Hixson, third-graders from Linden Elementary School sing at a Saturday tribute to Selma Shapiro, former longtime executive director of the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge.
Glenwood Elementary School students also perform at Saturday's first annual tribute, which about 150 people attended, including Shapiro's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Shapiro led the museum for almost 32 years and died in May 2011.
Selma Shapiro tribute at Children’s Museum Satuday
A Saturday afternoon tribute at the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge will honor former executive director Selma Shapiro, pictured above at center.
A Saturday afternoon program that features student musicians and artists will honor Selma Shapiro, former executive director of the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge.
Shapiro, who led the museum for almost 32 years, retired in 2004, when she was 80, but she continued to serve as a volunteer until she died in May 2011.
NFL dream ends in fatal fall from truck
Walls
OLIVER SPRINGS — Like most young men, Brady Walls had big dreams.
Walls, 17, wanted to become a famous football player, family members and friends said during a candlelight vigil in Oliver Springs on Tuesday.
“He wanted to go to the NFL and buy his daddy a Jeep,” said friend and neighbor John Simms, a junior at Oliver Springs High School.
Clinton hosts antique fair this weekend
The 8th annual Clinch River Spring Antique Fair is this weekend in Clinton. The fair starts on Friday with a “kick-off party” from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a performance by Wendy Crowe and High Kotton Band.
The festival continues on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an outdoor antique show that features more than 100 vendors from many states. On Sunday, the antique shops will be open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday session of Oak Ridge Farmers Market starts today
The Oak Ridge Farmers Market has already opened for the season on Saturday mornings, and starting today, the market will also be open on Wednesday afternoons.
The farmers market, one of the oldest continuously operating markets in Tennessee, is in the parking lot just north of Jackson Square. Vendors sell locally grown produce, meats, honey, eggs, plants, and flowers.
Relay For Life fights cancer June 1
More than 25 fundraising teams are expected to participate in a June 1 cancer-fighting fundraiser at Oak Ridge High School.
Money raised at the all-night Relay for Life will support American Cancer Society efforts to help fight cancer and find a cure for it. Organizers hope to raise $80,000.
