| NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES: Senior Center Open House will showcase its activities
Know a special senior citizen who needs a friend or wants to add some fun to his or her life? If so, make sure they visit the Mandarin Senior Center at 3848 Hartley Road from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday. Activities and services offered to seniors 60 and older will be showcased during the end-of-summer open-house event. The center offers, among other things, a new garden club, a variety of card groups, ceramics classes, several exercise and dance groups, Bingo, library resources, games, speakers and computer classes, said long-time volunteer Barb Longhofer. "We are hoping to reach even more people through this open house," she said. "The senior center is a great place for people to make new friends, get involved, and have fun." For more information, call 262-7309. Director of volunteers Carmen Kelly is the new director of volunteers at the Mandarin Food Bank.
From Staff Reports
It's over. The first-day jitters are behind us. Everyone has met their teacher. Parents bask in the pleasure of a silent house. The first day of school came and went Monday for 41,000 public school students in Frederick County and, according to school system officials, the day went without major incident. Superintendent Linda Burgee spent her time at 10 of the county's 63 schools. "It was smooth openings (all around)," she said. "We typically have the first day of school transportation glitches, little glitches with lunch lines." In addition to the usual missed rides and forgotten bus stops, one Frederick County school bus was involved in a collision shortly before 5 p.m. Monday on Dickerson Road near Greenfield Road. Deputies from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said the driver of a Ford Escort, whose name was not released, made a left turn onto Dickerson Road from the driveway at 5955 when she collided with bus No.
Alton Brown returns to Charlotte Shout
Charlotte Shout's organizers on Friday announced the last link in their lineup: Food Network's Alton Brown will return for his second visit to the September culinary arts festival. Brown came in 2003 for Shout's second year, marking a turning point in the festival's growth into a sophisticated food event. Since then, chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Anthony Bourdain have taken their places on the stage in Gateway Village on West Trade Street. The last time he was here, Brown drew so many fans there was a three-hour wait for book signings. That won't be a problem this time. Brown, host of the popular food science show "Good Eats" and the food travel show "Feasting on Asphalt," won't sign books. Instead, he'll take the stage at 6 p.m. Sept. 29 for a one-hour presentation.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Jarrard Cordelrow Allison, 21, of Chattanooga, died Thursday Aug. 23, 2007.
Arrangements to be announced by Franklin-Strickland Funeral Directors. Giles Brooks
Giles R. Brooks, 83, of Ooltewah, recently passed away.
A private service was held Aug. 22, 2007.
He was of the Baptist faith.
Giles was preceded in death by a son, David; parents, Thomas and Emma Brooks; siblings, Houston Brooks, Aline Cantrell and Mary Doney.
Giles is survived by wife of 58 years, Trudy Jenkins Brooks; and son, Steven R. Brooks.
Giles graduated from Central High School before joining the Marines during World War II. He served in the South Pacific and was then stationed in China after Japan surrendered. After WWII he attended the University of Chattanooga before working for Goodyear.
Group gives Atlanta school lunch a D, DeKalb a B
Toss those chicken nuggets and pass the soy milk: A veggie-lunch-lovin' advocacy group this week nearly failed Atlanta's public schools — with a D+ — while giving DeKalb County schools a passing B- for the food they serve at lunch. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's annual school lunch survey targets school systems that participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program. .
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