Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 82 with a 40% chance of storms.
- What we’re eating: Learn more about the man behind your meal and check out one of his recipes in this Q&A with Patrick Asconi, executive chef at Old Gilman Grill in downtown’s West Village.
- What we’re proud of: Three dozen acres at Edwards Point atop Signal Mountain are now being protected after the land was acquired by the Tennessee River Gorge Trust.
- What we’re doing: Here’s your list of upcoming events this weekend, many of which have a special focus on the history lessons we learn from wars, societal shifts and cultural change.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
Some of Chattanooga’s biggest employers are uniting in an effort to raise the local COVID-19 vaccination rate to 60 percent before the end of the year.
“We must get to a higher vaccination level, and we’re really excited about what we can do in this community to achieve that,” said Mary Lambert, the newly appointed director of community health for the city of Chattanooga.
On Tuesday, 26 area organizations pledged to work together to encourage vaccination to help reverse the current infection trends in the community.