The City of Oak Ridge has extended elections for six boards, commissions, and committees. Applications are due in the Oak Ridge City Clerk’s Office by 5 p.m. Monday, January 11.
The extended elections apply to the Anderson County Community Action Commission, Personnel Advisory Board, Senior Advisory Board, Trade Licensing Board, Traffic Safety Advisory Board, and Secret City Festival Board of Directors. [Read more…]
Patrons can take advantage of the “Food for Fines†program at the Clinton Public Library from July 6 to July 11.
“Bring in an unexpired, nonperishable food item for each dollar you have in overdue fines, and your fines will be forgiven,” a press release said.
All donations will benefit the Anderson County Community Action Commission.
Clinton Public Library is located at 118 South Hicks Street in Clinton. Â Call (865) 457-0519 for more information about the program.
Three local insurance agents are volunteering to get wet in a dunking booth on Saturday to raise money for local nonprofits.
The agents are David A. Vudragovich, Matt Libby, and Melanie Heiberg. The Saturday event is sponsored by Pellissippi Rowing, and and it will be at the Clinton Park behind the ball field from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Besides the dunking booth, it will include food, horse rides, and good community fun, organizers said.
“Buy your tickets from your favorite nonprofit and trade them in for balls to dunk your insurance agent,” organizers said. [Read more…]
Note: This is a copy of an August 20 letter sent to city officials.
Dear Mayor Beehan, Mr. Mark Watson, respected Council Members,
I’ve written to you several times in the past regarding the implementation of community gardens in, or rather starting in, the Highland View neighborhood, where I currently reside. Because of my desire to help eliminate hunger in my community, you appointed me to the Anderson County Community Action Commission, which I’ve accepted as a great honor.
My sole focus was on getting food, easy sustainable food, into this area so that families, despite their circumstances, could build something together which, in turn, would increase the sense of community and bonding that comes with dirt under the fingernails and a cold beer after for those old enough.
It is with regret that I inform you that the grant we’d hoped so fervently for from the Lowe’s Community program did not go through. We are, instead, sitting on an acre-and-a-half of land that could have been centrally located, cleared for the sole purpose of raised gardens being built and established, educating anyone that wanted to learn about gardening food, the installation of fruit trees to add better variety to the tables more commonly filled with processed foods, and the naive ideal of success. [Read more…]
