Your Friday at a glance:
- Weather: High 75; partly cloudy
- What to eat: Cake and berry campfire cobbler, the perfect addition to your backyard camping experience.
- What to do: Social-distance outdoors. Tennessee State Parks is reopening most of its 56 parks today.
- What we’re excited about: Not being trapped on a cruise ship during a global pandemic – though not everyone feels the same. Here’s why one passenger called getting stuck on an around-the-globe cruise “a stroke of luck.”
Greetings, Chattanooga!
Remember a few weeks ago when we shared the deets of Unum’s work-from-home photo contest? You still have time to enter, but also – check out the submissions so far! (My favorite is the one with the pot-bellied pig.)
And now, today’s top stories:
In response to Chattanooga tornadoes, Habitat ReStores reopened yesterday to accept donations.
Who remembers Highland Plaza, Chattanooga’s first suburban shopping center?
And, Esther Roman wasn’t even in the room when she witnessed what she describes as “probably the holiest thing I’ve ever seen.” Here’s her story, as well as a look at how spiritual counselors are adapting amid the coronavirus pandemic.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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