Participants in Outdoor Chattanooga’s Rapid Learning kayak roll class raise their paddles during a summer trip on the Hiwassee River.The Rapid Learning roll program is rolling with the punch.
When Outdoor Chattanooga’s kayaking instruction resumes in two weeks, it will be at a new site on a new evening. With the indoor pool at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Maclellan Gymnasium in need of repair that will take a while, the Rapid Learning winter sessions will be held at the Brainerd Recreation Center from 6 to 7 and from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. That starts Jan. 9.
The sessions normally have been held on Tuesdays.
“Rapid Learning lost its winter home,” said Ruthie Thompson, Outdoor Chattanooga’s events/marketing coordinator, “so we looked in our own back yard with the Chattanooga Parks and Recreation Department. The indoor pool at the Brainerd center was available but not on Tuesdays, so we’ve moved the classes to Wednesdays.
“The program really has been growing under Terri Chapin’s direction,” Thompson said Wednesday. “We have about 150 yearly members — families and individuals — and we typically have 25 to 30 people at a session.”