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Your Tuesday at a glance:

  • Weather: High 81; chance of afternoon storm
  • What to eat: Sandy Zitkus’ pimento cheese mixed into grits, combined with pasta, used as a burger topping – or, any one of these ideas on how to try the famous recipe.
  • What to do: Stay safe at grocery stores. Here’s how.
  • What we’re excited about: These Chattanooga neighborhoods using the outbreak as an opportunity to reach out to their more vulnerable neighbors.

Greetings, Chattanooga!

I know I promised to open this newsletter each day with a non-coronavirus story, but this new series from editor Lisa Denton is too good not to spotlight.

This weekend, she kicked off “Friends Indeed,” which shares a different story each week recognizing acts of kindness during the pandemic. This is how her first feature begins:

“The first line of Sarah Johnson’s Facebook post sums it up: ‘Last week something really awesome happened here at Couch’s!’