News - Friday, February 15, 2013

Women of Distinction are so named for their extraordinary work in their profession and community. Some are also seen as unconventional trailblazers who have carved a path other women may then travel. Conversely, some of the women the American Lung Association of Tennessee honors each year have made a clear mark while living a life some would define as traditional. Carol Mutter, a 2013 Woman of Distinction, counts herself as among the latter group.

Attorney Scott Parrish has been elected to Miller & Martin’s Policy Committee. The committee serves as the firm’s managing board of directors and is responsible for evaluating and approving all major decisions for the firm across all offices. Parrish, who has been with the firm over 20 years, concentrates his practice on civil litigation, including the areas of commercial, corporate, securities, and product liability litigation. He provides general risk and litigation management assistance for a number of companies. He has substantial experience representing clients in federal and state court, mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Parrish serves as the Chair of the firm’s practice groups for Commercial Litigation and Non-Compete/Trade Secrets Litigation. (Photo provided)

Downtown Chattanooga is in the process of becoming a more colorful and easier area to navigate. Along with other downtown partners, River City Company is facilitating the implementation of new downtown maps and wayfinding signage along with refurbishing map kiosks to further beautify downtown and make it easier for visitors and residents alike to navigate the city. Additionally, River City Company is sponsoring new district specific banners to be placed downtown.

Special to the Hamilton County Herald

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has one issue that has drawn little attention that he wants to pass through this session of the legislature: redrawing the state’s judicial districts.

These districts, which define the areas overseen by judges and district attorneys, have not been refined since 1984.

The Emancipation Proclamation is on view at the Tennessee State Museum through Monday, February 18. The viewing is in conjunction with the “Discovering the Civil War” exhibition from Washington D.C.’s National Archives.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the document in 1863, proclaiming all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free. 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The “Looking Back at the Civil War” project provides an opportunity for Tennesseans with Civil War manuscripts, artifacts and photographs to have their items digitally preserved free of charge. As part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a team of professional archivists, curators, and conservators from the Tennessee State Library and Archives will be traveling across the state to digitize privately-owned Civil War records. To date, the “Looking Back” project has been held in 52 Tennessee counties and has documented more than 4,500 distinct items.

I wanted to wait until after the State of the Union before I wrote my column. That way, my column would be cutting edge and up to the minute. I really hate it when I write about an event or a situation, and by the time the column comes out, everything has changed. What’s worse is when it looks like I’m just jumping on a subject because every one else is. In addition to that specious claim, it gives me an excuse for my column to be late.

Buy your tickets now for Taste, a fundraising food event benefitting the Kidney Foundation of the Greater Chattanooga Area, featuring some of the best cuisine and couture Chattanooga has to offer Thursday, March 7, from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Stratton Hall.

The Urban League of Greater Chattanooga will host the inaugural Entrepreneur Power Luncheon on Tuesday, March 26 at the Chattanoogan Hotel. At the event, Daymond John, star of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” will deliver the keynote speech, and a minority-owned and woman-owned business person of the year will be recognized.

If it looks like a boat and floats, it might not be a boat. So held the Supreme Court in mid-January.

Fane Lozman was the owner of a house-like plywood structure with French doors on three sides. It consisted of a sitting room, bedroom, closet, bathroom, kitchen, stairway, and some office space upstairs. An “empty bilge space” below its main floor kept it afloat.

A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years. A super-centenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more. Even rarer is a person who has lived to age 115. As of January 2013, there are only 29 people in recorded history who have indisputably reached this age.

City of Chattanooga Parks and Recreation

Months of work, preparation, writing, recording, producing and, most importantly, commitment and confidence have paid off. The STARS of Chattanooga CD Release Party on Saturday, February 9 was a blast. Hamilton Skate Place estimated an extra 250 to 300 people filled the rink to hear the sounds and rhymes coming from the STARS of Chattanooga, who sang to a positive tune. 

I want a Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle. – A Christmas Story

I need a trip. Somewhere I’ve never been, to a place where you do actually leave the farm. A nice place, preferably far away and tropical, to take my wife and lounge under an umbrella while the warm sea breeze lifts us gently onto that Greek river of forgetfulness. Where you sleep in the open air and flowered shirts are in vogue. 

I wanted to write about St. Paddy’s Day today, but this morning when I woke up, things were strange. Very strange!

Our cat Sasha, who usually meets me at the bedroom door meowing like she’s dying of starvation, was quiet. “Hmmm... Where’s Sasha?” I thought. I opened the door, and then she almost knocked me down trying to get in our bedroom. Luckily, I was alert enough to get her before she darted under the bed; it was not quite time for hubby to wake-up.

Working as a residential Realtor in the Greater Chattanooga area has given multi-million dollar producer Holly Harwell the freedom to do something that’s important to her: be involved in her community. Since catching the volunteer bug in her teens, she’s sat on various boards, chaired many committees and labored to support her church and other causes about which she feels passionate.

After 10 months of offering incentives to police officers, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise has expanded its Police Fund for Homeownership to encompass the Chattanooga Fire Department.

Through the Firefighter Fund for Homeownership, local sworn firefighters can receive $10,000 toward the purchase of a single-family home anywhere in Chattanooga. Additionally, firefighters who purchase a home in areas where revitalization efforts are underway, including the Bushtown, Orchard Knob, Highland Park and Glenwood neighborhoods, are eligible for a $20,000 incentive. The benefit is given in the form of a forgivable loan, 20 percent of which is forgiven each year for five years.

Dear EarthTalk:

How are droughts and wildfires cause by global warming? I thought warming mostly brought on wet and flooded conditions. - David Mossman, Albuquerque, NM

By throwing the planet’s climate regulation systems out of whack, global warming is likely to cause more extreme weather events of every kind, including additional precipitation and flooding in some cases and more drying and drought in others - sometimes within the same region.

I hear the train a comin’

It’s rollin’ ‘round the bend…

Johnny Cash and trains, trains, and more trains. What do they have in common? They are both icons of American history. See how much you know about trains and their progression, whether it’s about them, or the songs sung about them.

The producers of Identity Thief could have cut five trailers for the movie, and each one would have been accurate. They could have cut a trailer that made the movie look like an action thriller, complete with car chases, trigger happy bad guys, a crusty bounty hunter and a crime boss that runs his operation out of a prison cell. They could have cut a trailer that made the movie look like a frothy family comedy, complete with giggling little girls who love their daddy and a doting wife. They could have cut a trailer that made the movie look like a drama, with a cheerless woman mourning over her lack of belonging, complete with tear-jerking scenes tailored to win Academy Awards. And they could have cut a trailer that made the movie look like a raucous, R-rated sex comedy you would not want to show to any giggling little girls, or doting wives.

At the USDA, we’ve made record efforts in the past four years to support homegrown energy. This year, we’re looking ahead to a promising future for biofuels.

Biofuels have already contributed a great deal to our economy, to our energy security and to the bottom line on our farms and ranches. Today, we’re taking steps to strengthen the biofuels industry and helping innovate the next generation of advanced biofuels.

Zack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, has stated, “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” Clear visions have helped shape and propel impressive companies. For example, Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, had a vision that packages could be delivered around the United States by the next morning. Disney wanted to make families smile. Dominoes wanted you to have hot, delicious pizza delivered to your door in 30 minutes or less or it was free. Coke wanted to have its refreshing beverages within the reach of every person in the world. Microsoft wanted to create beneficial software that would compel people to have a computer on every desk at work, home and school.

Written by Lee Blessing, “Two Rooms” is the story of an American University professor kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War of the 1980s and his wife back home in America waiting for his release. The emotional tensions and struggles of the play come as she tries to determine what is truth, what is spin, what is genuine compassion and what is manipulation coming from the State Department employee assigned to her case and from a reporter eager to get her to speak out about the situation.

Saturday, February 16

The YMCA has submitted to the Chattanooga Housing Authority an offer of $184,000 for a tract in the Golden Gateway on which it proposes to build a new downtown YMCA. Howard C. Morland, general secretary of the Y, revealed.

Saturday, February 15

Miss Rowena Sauls entertained, in honor of her guest, Miss Annie D. Hall of Cleveland, with a Valentine party. Her guests were Misses Lillian Winters, Ruth Mills, Hester and Sarah Blair, Blanche Woodward, Susie McNulty, Dent Gillespie, Irma Harter and Margaret Sadd; and Messrs. Drew Massee, Clarence McCollum, Ralph Dwight, Bernard Jennings, Will McNulty, Gordon Wood, Joe Gillespie, Arch Willingham, Corbin Woodward and John McGaughy.

Friday, February 15

Violin & piano concert at Covenant College

Violinist Sooyoung Yoon and pianist Ji Neyng You will be in concert at Covenant College performing works by Bach, Beethoven, LeClair, and Saint-Sa?ns. A professor of violin at the Kyungbuk National University in Daegu, South Korea, Yoon began to play the violin at the age of nine, and won the Korean National Competition at 16. He studied under the master violinist Jascha Heifetz, and is an active soloist, recitalist, and master class teacher. Ji Neyng You has been a soloist with Daegu Symphony, Busan Philharmonic, Chungnam Philharmonic, and Prime Philharmonic in Korea. She’s currently an adjunct piano professor at Baptist Theological University in Daejeon, Korea. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in the chapel. The suggested donation at the door is $10.