Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High 63; partly cloudy
- What to drink: Whiskey. Ex-Jack Daniel’s distiller recently announced a new distillery to open near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.
- What to do: Donate blood. Chattanooga-based Blood Assurance is in critical need of donors.
- What we’re excited about: Fisk University receiving a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help make the school’s art more accessible to students and the community.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
And happy Earth Day! Want to give back to the planet today? Here are some super-simple ideas:
1. Turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth – an easy act that can save up to 8 gallons of water.
2. Wash your laundry in cold water, which can help reduce your washing machine’s energy use by 90%.