Your Monday at a glance:
- Weather: Sunny with a high of 70.
- What to know: Local and nationwide toy retailers are recommending that consumers get their holiday shopping and orders out of the way early this year.
- What can help: Here’s how the community can help with the area’s dangerously low blood supply.
- What we’re doing: Chattanooga’s startup week starts today.
Good morning, Chattanooga.
Welcome Home Chattanooga, a nonprofit that started in 2015, believes that everyone deserves housing and care, especially in their last days.
The organization has provided a place to live and hospice care to more than 80 terminally ill people experiencing homelessness since opening six years ago.
“We want to create a sanctuary of care, compassion and safety,” Executive Director Sherry Campbell said. “When someone comes into this space, whether it’s our residents, visitors, volunteers or staff, we want them to feel like they are in a haven.”
Read here about how Welcome Home is expanding and how donations have helped keep the service alive.
Now for some recent stories:
PENCIL IT IN: Halloween events. Art. Films, food and festivals. Here are all the things happening in the Chattanooga area this week.
DOWNTOWN FACELIFT: The historic John Ross Building downtown will be getting a makeover.
ICYMI: If you weren’t able to make it or if you’d like to relive it, here are some of our favorite pictures from this weekend’s Chattanooga Motorcar Festival.
– Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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