Women Of Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints To Hold Women s Day Of Service Thursday, March 4, 2021 - by Phil Smartt
Women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints in the greater Chattanooga area are celebrating International Women’s Day with a day of service scheduled for Saturday.
IWD – held since the 1900s – was formalized in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1911. In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution inviting member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace. Then, as now, the intent has been to pursue equal opportunity for women in all aspects of life. In some cultures, IWD is like Mother’s Day.
FreightWaves bringing F3: Future of Freight Festival to Chattanooga in November
In-person festival celebrating the freight industry will take place at 30 locations around the Tennessee city
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FreightWaves in-person events quickly became known for their trendsetting experiences since their launch in 2018, but the COVID pandemic forced a change in 2020. While the company switched to virtual events last year, the same on-site experience was missing.
It won’t be later this year. FreightWaves will open the doors to an in-person event with F3: Future of Freight Festival.
FreightWaves will be bringing the F3: Future of Freight Festival to its home city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Nov. 8-10. Several thousand freight executives, supply chain leaders and industry stakeholders are expected to descend on Chattanooga – named one of America’s most livable cities – for the in-person event, which will take place not at one location like many events but throughou
Meet the woman with the cutest job in town at the National Zoo.
Nicole MacCorkle, giant panda keeper at the Smithsonian National Zoo shares the inside scoop on working closely with Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and their cub Bei Bei. Nicole spills the bamboo on how to get her job, how to baby-proof a panda enclosure and much more about her fluffy friends.
In a town full of titles, your business card must stop people in their tracks. How did you become a giant panda keeper?
NM: I have been working in zoos since I graduated from college. I worked at two other zoos prior to coming to the National Zoo: the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, Va. and the Chattanooga Zoo in Tennessee.
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MGHC Celebrates 25 Years Of Education And Service With Online Public Gardening Class Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The Master Gardeners of Hamilton County, in association with the University of Tennessee Extension, continue their third Saturday free public gardening classes in 2021. Presented online via Zoom during the pandemic, the first class takes place this Saturday at 10 a.m., with “IkebanaMoribana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging” presented by Master Gardener Janet Jobe.
The Zoom link to access this public class is available on the MGHC website.
Master Gardener Jobe said, “Ikebana (‘making flowers alive’) is the Japanese art of flower arranging, a tradition that began with floral offerings made for religious purposes and later became