Greetings, outdoorspeople!
- Weekend forecast: Saturday; high 89, scattered storms/ Sunday; high 87, scattered storms
- Recommended adventure: Begin training for the PanCAN 5K, an upriver kayak and paddleboard race on the Tennessee River. The event begins at 9 a.m. Sept. 18 at the Suck Creek Boat Launch and ends at Williams Island. And if you can’t compete in person? Do it virtually. The cost to register is $35, helping benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Sign up here.
- Most interesting thing we recently learned: In 2020, the Tennessee Department of Transportation removed 21 million pounds of litter from public roadways and cleaned up 4,023 illegal roadside dumps – efforts that cost the state $19 million annually. Read more about TDOT’s efforts to prevent litter and learn how you can get involved with the “Nobody Trashes Tennessee” campaign here.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com