Your Monday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 66.
- What to do: Here’s a list of events for this week including where to ‘dump your pumpkin’ and Christmas open houses.
- What happened: The Pfizer vaccine has been cleared for children ages 5-11.
- What to eat: Here’s how to make your fajitas sizzle like a restaurant’s.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
An area company is working with Temple Grandin, a prominent animal scientist and speaker with autism, to develop a line of playground equipment for children with autism.
Grandin was in Chattanooga on Thursday to visit Signal Center’s accessible playground and to try out a piece of Play & Park Structures equipment called the Swizzler. (You can check out the picture below.)
“Our intent is to learn from her about what children or people of all ages with autism would be attracted to or enjoy on a playground so that can continue to influence our design and product development,” said Lindsay Hill, senior vice president and group manager for Play & Park Structures.
Now for some recent stories:
MAKING MONEY: Unemployment has fallen to record lows in the Chattanooga area.
MEMORIAL MANDATE: Less than 1% of workers at CHI Memorial decided to leave over the system’s vaccine mandate.
MAKING MENTORS: A Chattanooga group is seeking funding for a program to help mentor youth in an attempt to curb recent violence.
– Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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