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Lavender Festival is Saturday in Jackson Square

Posted at 4:14 pm June 13, 2018
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Image Credit: Shawn Millsaps

Lavender Festival (Image Credit: Shawn Millsaps)

 

The Lavender Festival in Jackson Square on Saturday will celebrate health, herbs, crafts, local foods—and lavender. There will also be music, children’s activities, and a wine tasting. It’s the 20th year of the festival, which is the only Lavender Festival in Tennessee.

“The Lavender Festival is a perennial crowd favorite, full of tradition, fun, and always something new,” a press release said.

The 20th annual Lavender Festival is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 16, in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge.

The festival, which attracted about 8,000 people last year, is always free, with plenty of free parking available in surrounding city and business lots, and on side streets.

As is tradition, a bagpipe player will open the festival at 8 a.m., playing from upper Blankenship Field into Jackson Square. Also keeping with tradition, Alan McBride will follow with the hammered dulcimer in the bandstand. A complete music schedule is found below.

Informative presentations will be held in the lobby of Pinnacle Financial Partners, and they will include Thyroid Health & Tips for Optimal Brain function (10 a.m.), Home-Crafted Lavender Products (11:30 a.m.), and Turning Back the Bones of Time (1 p.m.).

Also returning for its third year is “A Taste of Tennessee Wines,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., benefitting the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, Business, Community, Community, Crafts, Entertainment, Front Page News, Music, Slider Tagged With: artisan vendors, children's activities, crafts, Daylillies Stony Clay Station, Erin's Meadow Herb Farm, Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge, Great Valley Wine Trail, Harmonic Journeys, health, herb and floral vendors, Herb of the Year, herbal tasting, herbs, Honey Rock Herb Farm, Jackson Square, Jeri Landers, Jericho Farms, lavender, Lavender Festival, local foods, music, Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Rainwater Farm, Sunlight Gardens, Taste of Tennessee Wines, wine tasting, Wingshuck

Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17

Posted at 3:04 pm June 7, 2017
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The 19th annual Lavender Festival returns Saturday, June 17, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. (Photography by Shawn Millsaps)

The 19th annual Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. (Photography by Shawn Millsaps)

 

The 19th annual Lavender Festival is Saturday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The Lavender Festival is a perennial crowd favorite, full of tradition, fun, and always something new, a press release said. The festival celebrates all things herbal, crafts, local foods, and more.

Admission to the festival is free, with plenty of free parking available in surrounding city and business lots, and on side streets, the press release said.

As is tradition, a bagpipe player will open the festival at 8 a.m., playing from upper Blankenship Field into Jackson Square. Also keeping with tradition, Alan McBride will follow with the hammered dulcimer in the bandstand. A complete music schedule is found below.

Also returning for a second year is “A Taste of Tennessee Wines,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., benefitting the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge. The tasting is hosted by Great Valley Wine Trail, which is made up of four independent wineries in East Tennessee. Your $10 tasting ticket is available at the gate (for those who are 21 with a valid identification). Tasters receive a complimentary wine glass, and if they purchase wine, a six-compartment wine tote. Customers are allowed to enjoy the wine outdoors in the Square during festival hours, with lunch served all day by plenty of food vendors and food trucks, restaurants, and even hors d’oeuvres by Chapel on the Hill. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Community, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: A Taste of Tennessee Wines, Alan McBride, Alexander Guest House Assisted Living Facility, Appalachian Region Wine Producers Association, Becky Coleman, Bob Grimac’s Art Spot, Chapel on the Hill, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Children’s International Summer Village, cilantro, Citizens First Bank, coriander, Cowperwood Company, Dan Arp, Danny Whitson, Daylillies, Doubletree by Hilton, Down the Rabbit Hole by Donna Roach, East Tennessee FARM Markets, Erin's Meadow Herb Farm, Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge, Great Valley Wine Trail, Harmonic Journeys, herb luncheon, Herb of the Year, Hip 'n Happening, Honey Rock Herb Farm, Jackson Square, James R. "Rick" Riddle, Jeri Landers, Jericho Farms, Lavender Festival, Midfield Lavender Farm, Midway Tire, Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Rainwater Farm, Signs of the Water Jewelry by Marcia Napier, Stoney Clay Station, Sunlight Gardens, TN Bank of Oak Ridge, Tomboy Organic Skincare, Trans Tech, Wingshuck

Remembered as a model community volunteer, Myrick died Sunday

Posted at 11:17 am December 15, 2014
By John Huotari 4 Comments

Tim and Teresa Myrick with ADFAC Bow Tie Award

Tim Myrick, left, received the 2014 Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Award from ADFAC on Oct. 30. Pictured with Myrick at Y-12’s New Hope Center is his wife Teresa. (Photo courtesy ADFAC)

Note: This story was last updated at 3:30 p.m.

Tim Myrick, one of the area’s most active community volunteers, died Sunday morning. He was at home with his wife Teresa by his side.

Friends are remembering him as a model community leader and volunteer. Myrick, who had been battling prostate cancer, had provided decades of service to the church and to Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, or ADFAC, as well as to Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County. He played a key role in the renovation of Oak Ridge High School and modernization work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 2012, he and Teresa pledged $25,000 to the Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation’s “Making the Critical Difference” campaign for grants and scholarships.

“We sure lost a strong advocate for our community,” said friend D. Ray Smith, who serves on both the ADFAC and Habitat for Humanity boards. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Education, K-12, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Obituaries, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: ADFAC, Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, Bow Tie Award, Charlotte Bowers, community volunteer, First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge, Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County, Jericho Farms, Living Waters, Muddy Boot Award, Oak Ridge Farmers Market, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, ORNL, Ray Smith, Red Cross, Sharon Youngs, Teresa Myrick, Tim Myrick, volunteer

‘One more house’: UT-Battelle helps honor Myricks through Habitat project

Posted at 10:33 am May 2, 2014
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leave a Comment

Tim and Teresa Myrick and Habitat for Humanity

UT-Battelle is supporting a Habitat for Humanity project that honors Tim and Teresa Myrick. (Photo: Jason Richards)

UT-Battelle joins community in honoring Myrick’s years of service through Habitat for Humanity project this summer

UT-Battelle is contributing $10,000 in matching donations to a Habitat for Humanity project dedicated to Tim and Teresa Myrick, who have been enduring supporters of the organization that provides shelter for deserving families.

Tim Myrick’s handiwork dots the Oak Ridge landscape. He was a major contributor to the modernization campaign at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that resulted in a sparkling new east campus. He helped lead the renovation of the town’s high school.

He’s been involved in all the Anderson County Habitat for Humanity projects in some way—58 in all.

He wants to add to that tally. There is some urgency in the matter.

“With the cancer thing I set priorities: fighting cancer, the Habitat project, Living Waters, building a new church, doing some fly fishing,” he said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: ADFAC, Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties Inc., Habitat for Humanity, Jericho Farms, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Teresa Myrick, Tim Myrick, U.S. Department of Energy, UT-Battelle

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