Your Tuesday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 81 with a 50% chance of storms.
- What's impressive: A Sale Creek senior and a recent graduate are swimming in more than $200,000 worth of scholarship offers after winning a fishing competition.
- What we're proud of: Friends of Special Children is raising money to improve the inclusive playground at Signal Centers.
- What we're looking forward to: A century-old locomotive is being restored in downtown Chattanooga.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
Afghan American and Chattanooga area resident Wahid Dorany didn't know if he would ever see his family alive again, but he was able to help them, with the assistance of some friends, evacuate Afghanistan last month.
Now he is waiting for his parents, wife and siblings to soon join him in Chattanooga, as they are at military bases in Philadelphia and Virginia finishing up paperwork and screenings.
"We're lucky, we're fortunate, we're thankful and grateful for every single thing these people did for us, for me and my family," Dorany said.
Now for some recent stories:
CLOSE TO HOME: This McCallie grad and football player has stayed local and is helping to strengthen UTC's defensive line.
UP IN THE AIR: Have you ever wondered what happened to the Chattanooga Air Show?
OPENING IN A JIFFY: Jiffy Lube is coming to the Chattanooga area with a couple of new stores.
- Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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