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Your Tuesday at a glance:

• Weather: High of 81 with a 50% chance of storms.
• What’s impressive: A Sale Creek senior and a recent graduate are swimming in more than $200,000 worth of scholarship offers after winning a fishing competition.
• What we’re proud of: Friends of Special Children is raising money to improve the inclusive playground at Signal Centers.
• What we’re looking forward to: A century-old locomotive is being restored in downtown Chattanooga.

Good morning, Chattanooga!

Afghan American and Chattanooga area resident Wahid Dorany didn’t know if he would ever see his family alive again, but he was able to help them, with the assistance of some friends, evacuate Afghanistan last month.

Now he is waiting for his parents, wife and siblings to soon join him in Chattanooga, as they are at military bases in Philadelphia and Virginia finishing up paperwork and screenings.

Here, read more about their journey to the United States and how the community has supported Wahid’s efforts to relocate his family and start a new future.