IF YOU GOWhat: Norton Search Benefit Concert, featuring Ryan Roth & Comeback Special.When: 8:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday.Where: Chattanooga Choo Choo’s Centennial Theater, 1400 Market St.Admission: $20.Phone: 280-8217.Email: finding bobnorton@gmail.com.Website: findingbobnorton.org.Note: Tickets will be available at the door or in advance at Rock/Creek Outfitters, 301 Manufacturers Road and Hamilton Crossing, 2200 Hamilton Place Blvd.
Fresh from a series of Elvis Week performances in Memphis, Ryan Roth & Comeback Special will perform an Elvis Reloaded concert Saturday at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.
The concert will raise funds to continue the 31/2-year search for medical missionaries Bob and Neiba Norton of Bryant, Ala., who went missing in the jungles of Venezuela on Feb. 16, 2009.
According to findingbobnorton.org, the four-seat Cessna 182 Bob Norton was piloting that day also was carrying a schoolteacher and four indigenous Indians. Capt. Norton had accumulated more than 5,000 hours of flight time, most of it flying sick and injured Indians out of the jungle to advanced medical care.
The Finding Bob Norton team, headed by family friend Bob Edwards of McMinnville, Tenn., has conducted fact-finding interviews as well as air and ground searches of the areas where the plane was last seen and last heard. They continue to gather information to shrink the search zone and, said Edwards, “we continue to develop technologies that we hope to deploy in this search effort.”