Filed by Mike O’Neal
Not everyone at Riverbend 2006 on Sunday came to see Kenny Rogers perform with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera or any of the side stage acts.
For them, Sunday was a dry run of what was to come in days ahead.
“I’ve never been,” Denise Jones said. “We just moved here last week from Baton Rought, La.”
Now one of the newest residents in Soddy-Daisy, Mrs. Jones said that after Hurricane Katrina she worked finding new homes for lost or abandoned pets.
Because so many of the animals were being relocated to Tennessee, she thought it might be a good place for her family.
Within a week of visiting the Chattanooga-area, she and her husband bought a house.
“Our Realtor gave us pins,” Mrs. Jones said. “It seems that it is family-oriented.”
Mrs. Jones mother, Ginger Rogers, also made the move from Baton Rouge.
“When they decided to move, they told me I was coming, too,” she said
And about Riverbend?
“I absolutely love it,” Mrs. Rogers said.
E-mail Mike O’Neal at moneal@timesfreepress.com
Not everyone at Riverbend 2006 on Sunday came to see Kenny Rogers perform with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera or any of the side stage acts.
For them, Sunday was a dry run of what was to come in days ahead.
“I’ve never been,” Denise Jones said. “We just moved here last week from Baton Rought, La.”
Now one of the newest residents in Soddy-Daisy, Mrs. Jones said that after Hurricane Katrina she worked finding new homes for lost or abandoned pets.
Because so many of the animals were being relocated to Tennessee, she thought it might be a good place for her family.
Within a week of visiting the Chattanooga-area, she and her husband bought a house.
“Our Realtor gave us pins,” Mrs. Jones said. “It seems that it is family-oriented.”
Mrs. Jones mother, Ginger Rogers, also made the move from Baton Rouge.
“When they decided to move, they told me I was coming, too,” she said
And about Riverbend?
“I absolutely love it,” Mrs. Rogers said.
E-mail Mike O’Neal at moneal@timesfreepress.com
