Hello, My name is Erin Fisher and I represent the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA; annanurse.org). I wanted to share the news that Russellville, TN, resident, Norma Gomez, MBA, MSN, RN, CNN, of Russellville, TN, was formally inducted as national president of the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA) during the association’s recent 44th Annual Symposium in Las Vegas, NV. Here’s a link to a press release announcing her induction: http://annanurse.org/52213-norma-gomez-inducted-president-american-nephrology-nurses%E2%80%99-association.
Appalachian Outreach was recently selected to receive a $20,000 grant from Wal-Mart’s Fighting Hunger Together national campaign. The auxiliary ministry of Carson-Newman University was one of 60 agencies chosen to receive a $20,000 grant. “I was very excited because it was a national campaign,” Appalachian Outreach Director Jean-Ann Washam said. “I wasn’t sure we would have enough support to win at that level.” The campaign was held throughout April, during
Registration is open for Tennessee’s 2013 Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event which remembers the 150th anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga. Titled “Occupation and Liberation,” the commemoration will take place Oct. 9-12, 2013 at the Chattanooga Convention Center and surrounding historic sites and will feature educational symposiums, book signings, special speaker-led ticketed tours and entertainment. The three-day event kicks off Oct. 9 with the Looking Back Project hosted by Tennessee
KODAK — For the second time this season and the first time in East Tennessee, the Smokies take on the Huntsville Stars, Double-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, beginning tonight at Smokies Park. The Smokies won the first five-game series 4-1 on April 15-19. As of May 20, the Stars are 18-25 on the year and 9.5 games out of first place in the North Division of the Southern League.
JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman junior shortstop Brittany Hefner has added to her laundry list of honors in 2013 with a first team All-American selection from the NFCA. Hefner, the SAC and Daktronics’ Southeast Region Player of the Year, was the only player from the southeast region on the first team and the only player from the South Atlantic Conference on any of NFCA’s three All-American teams. The Talbott, Tenn. native
CHATTANOOGA — For the second straight game, the Chattanooga Lookouts won in walk-off fashion as they scored an unearned run in the 11th inning to defeat the Tennessee Smokies 5-4 in the series finale at AT&T Field. The Smokies finish their ten-game road trip 7-3 but fall to 4.5 games back of first place in the Southern League’s North Division. After losing last night on a walkoff wild pitch, the
The Arts Build Communities grant program is designed to provide support for arts projects that broaden access to address community quality of life issues through the arts, or enhance the sustainability of asset-based cultural enterprises. ABC funds may be used to: • provide innovative arts experiences that are new or unfamiliar to community residents; offer arts programs that are designed to help affect positive change in community social issues •
Two Greene County middle school students recently received iPads and iTunes gift cards from the John Gamble Memorial Endowment at Walters State Community College. Baileyton Elementary eighthgrader Diana Propst and Chuckey-Doak Middle School eighthgrader Seth Neas earned the iPads in a county-wide essay contest sponsored by Walters State. The students also received framed copies of their essays. Propst is the daughter of Dan and Joy Propst, and Neas is the
Larry Stamm of Larry Stamm Ministries will teach a four week Personal Evangelism Primer class on Thursdays in June at Summit Leadership, 3104 Hanover Road, Johnson City. Classes will be held on June 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The principle-based PEP seminar will cover topics such as how to begin a witnessing conversation, dealing with fear, sharing your testimony, answering objections to Jesus and more.
I have been a resident of Russellville for about 6 years now, and I have always been a follower of Hummingbirds. In September of 2011 , I noticed a ” new ” hummingbird at my feeders. I took many photos of this hummingbird, and sent them off to various groups to help get it identified. I was contacted by Mark Armstrong, of the Knoxville Zoo, who came and captured the
Last year my husband decided we needed a new hobby, his idea was for us to raise bees in the back yard. Did I tell you we live in a subdivision? No. I can honestly say I have wonderful neighbors whom are very understanding. Well then in April of 2012, we went to the Jefferson County Co-op to purchase three hives for our coming bees later in the month. We
Three years ago, my only sister lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. She was the happy, outgoing, humorous side of our family. We respectfully titled her “the problem-solver” when she used her objective quality to mend out “knit-picking” as she called it. I still find it difficult to talk about Shelia at times, but I have found the more I share her story, the less heartache I carry the
The mission of the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble is as relevant today as it was in 1981 when Dr. Dorothy Floyd founded what was then the only professional children’s dance company in the United States. When Gov. Ned McWherter named the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble the state’s official Goodwill Ambassadors, He could not have imagined the lengths to which the group would go to fulfill its mission. From the Kennedy
Carson-Newman University recently held its annual Faculty and Staff Community Honors Banquet in the university’s Stokely Memorial Cafeteria. C-N Human Resources Coordinator Becky Boatright received the 2013 S.O.A.R. Award, which is the highest award given to a staff member and recognizes an individual who exhibits excellence in job performance and a positive spirit. C-N Communications Department Chair Dr. Mark Borchert and assistant art professor Lisa Flanary received the Mossy Creek
Walters State Community College will confer 1,329 degrees and certificates during its 44th commencement ceremony, which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 11. The ceremony will be held at the Walters State Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center in White Pine. Greeneville businessman and philanthropist Scott M. Niswonger will deliver the commencement address. Niswonger holds a degree in aviation technology and a Doctorate of Technology from Purdue University and a
Hawkins County Schools recently recognized its Teacher of the Year candidates from each school with a banquet. Those honored include kindergarten through fourth-grade teachers Vickie Dyer of Bulls Gap School, Amiee Ellis of Carter’s Valley Elementary, Rebecca Rollins of Church Hill Elementary, Linda Henard of Hawkins Elementary. Those honored in that grade level include Margaret Palko of Joseph Rogers Primary, Melanie Hammond of Keplar Elementary, Mollie Bolton of McPheeter’s Bend
NAMI Hamblen County, affiliate of The NAtional Alliance on Mental Illness, will hold its support group on at 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 15 at 363 E. Economy Rd in the Morristown Plaza. NAMI provides support and education for families of those with a severe mental illness. For information call 423-581-5135.
We are a small group of individuals who save cans for critters. We use the proceeds to provide free or reduced costs spays and nueters. We work with Grainger County Humane Society’s PAL mobile. In 2011 we fixed six animals free of charge. Last year we did 12. It is almost spring, and that means kittens and puppies, many euthinized due to the overload. We are planning to ask local businesses
3/11/13 GFWC of Tennessee District I to meet Saturday The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) of Tennessee will hold its District I Spring General Meeting on Saturday, March 16th in the Taylor Room at the Carnegie Hotel, Johnson City. The theme for this meeting is “Visioning for the Future”. District I has 12 clubs in more than 11 counties including the cities of Elizabethton, Erwin, Greeneville, Johnson City, Morristown,
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Walters State’s five-year wait to take the field
JEFFERSON CITY — A day after making the NFCA All-America first team,