Your Friday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 36.
- What to do: Weddings, reptiles and comedy steal the show in this weekend’s Chattanooga area event roundup.
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- What’s happening: Applications for Chattanooga’s Citizens Police Academy are now available.
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Grace Episcopal Church is dedicating a new arboretum, a collection of trees for scientific and educational purposes, on its campus this weekend.
Member and master gardener Lisa Lemza said it’s a part of a larger mission as a church.
“The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,” Lemza said, referencing Psalm 34, as she walked the church grounds Tuesday afternoon. “Nature is the fundamental way we approach God.”
The Chattanooga area is home to a number of such collections, and Kristina Shaneyfelt, who is also a member and a master gardener, said that the trees are a welcome addition in contrast to local development.
“This part of Brainerd is an aging, densely populated suburb, asphalted edge to edge,” she said in an email. “Grace’s grove of trees really stands out among the aging strip malls along Brainerd Road.”
RIVERBEND: Friends of the Festival announced the headliners and lineup for this year’s Riverbend Festival.
ALL-STATE: 14 more Chattanooga area football players were selected for all-state recognition.
PAY BY TEXT: A Chattanooga-based technology company is expanding its reach into a service that allows users to pay bills by text.
-Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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