HEARD ON THE TOWN
YOU’RE NEVER TOO young to learn about pet care. Just ask the students in Ms. Parrott’s fifth-grade class at Falling Water Elementary. The rising sixth-graders are knowledgeable about caring properly for their pets.
According to Tricia Sebes, volunteer/rescue coordinator at McKamey Animal Care & Adoption Center, the students were given hands-on lessons by McKamey voluntee Jim Watson.
“Jim has gone (to the school) once a month since November, each time with a McKamey dog to talk to Ms. Parrott’s class about animal care,” she said. “The kids discussed all they had learned from his visits, and they played with Trixie, a McKamey Labrador retriever that is available for adoption.”
The students also donated items on McKamey’s wish list.
For more information about the animal care program, contact McKamey Animal Care & Adoption Center at 305-6500.
EAR TO THE GROUND
SPEAKING OF McKamey Animal Care & Adoption Center, Sports Barn is presenting “Sweating for Strays,” a fitness fundraiser to benefit McKamey. The event will be held Saturday, June 5, from 8 a.m. to noon at Sports Barn East. The event will include an outdoor cycling class and swim challenge. There will be a $25 donation per half hour with 100 percent of the proceeds going to McKamey.
There will also be an adoption drive, bake sale, and vendor booth at the event.
For more information or to make reservations, call Adelaide McMillan at 855-0091.
REUNION
FORMER COLLEGEDALE Academy students enjoyed a recent reunion with their English teacher Frances Andrews, and Bible teacher, Paul Boynton, both of whom taught at Collegedale Academy in the 1950s.
Attending the reunion were Myrna K. Woolsey, Allen and Barbara Keele Olsen, Barbara Lorren Moore, Juanita Jones, Payne Hamil, James Durichek, Ralph Hendershot, Myrna Nelson Odom, and Susan Boyd Miller. Most of the students also attended Spalding Elementary School in Collegedale and Southern Missionary College, now Southern Adventist University.
Mr. Boynton, who resides in Ooltewah, shared stories about growing up in Chattanooga, said event spokeswoman Myrna Nelson Odom. “One story was of his riding a mule from his grandfather’s farm in White Oak all the way out to Collegedale so it could be used on the school’s farm,” Ms. Odom said.
Miss Andrews, of Collegedale, talked about Southern Adventist University in the early 1940s, she said, noting that both teachers attended SMC and later taught there.
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