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Chattanooga Bar Foundation inducts new Fellows
An 18th century Lutheran bishop and hymn writer said, “True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.” His statement applies to many of the legal professionals working in Chattanooga, including the men and women of the Chattanooga Bar Foundation.
Kids & Pros youth football camp will teach life lessons
Charles Barkley once infamously said he was not a role model. Retired NFL player Buddy Curry not only disagrees with the former NBA star but also strives to be an example of the kind of person he hopes young sports fans will aspire to be.
Through his Kids & Pros training camps, Curry and other ex-football players teach hundreds of youth each year the fundamentals of the sport as well as valuable life lessons. The organization will hold a camp in Chattanooga for the first time this summer.
50 years ago ...
What was happening in chattanooga in 1960
Saturday, June 25
Plans to build a $2,500,000 eight-story luxury apartment building on the former Z.W. Wheland homesite in North Chattanooga, were announced Saturday by Horace E. Collins, a leader in the project. The building will contain 92 units, which will rent at prices ranging from $200 a month to $600 a month for each of two spacious penthouses.
Under Analysis
It’s not so easy to develop easy money
A few years ago, it became fashionable for everyone to redevelop property. Everyone, I mean everyone, thought there was money to be made. Having represented real estate developers for a long time, and being aware of their creativity, salesmanship, vision, risk tolerance and dangerous pursuits, I was always a little taken back when people I knew suddenly started to redevelop properties. Of course, back then, with property values constantly climbing, a significant margin for error was built into the system, you know – easy money.
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Old dairy barn changed the health world
The other day, I was actually sitting in the “Dairy Barn” on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.
What’s so great about that you may ask? Well, in the area where I was sitting, Stephen Moulton Babcock conducted many of his experiments to develop the tests for determining butterfat content in milk along with his “single-grain experiment” that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science.
Case Digests - Tennessee court of appeals syllabus
William Robert Lindsley v. Lisa Whitman Lindsley
Blount County – The plaintiff had filed suit for divorce against defendant and defendant moved for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff had a prior marriage and theirs was a bigamous relationship. The Trial Judge held that defendant had a prior marriage and voided the parties’ marriage ab initio and dismissed the action. Plaintiff has appealed. We hold that under Texas law where they married, and California law where they resided prior to coming to Tennessee, they could, under the statute, enter into a common-law marriage after the spouse was divorced in the prior marriage. The disputed issue of fact in the summary judgment is whether the parties entered into a common-law marriage after the plaintiff’s prior marriage ended. We remand for a determination of this factual issue.
Are We There Yet?
Another great Open
Golf isn’t like other sports where you can take a player out if he’s having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
– Phil Blackmar
Summer arrived this week but how could we really tell? Maybe if we’re lucky there will be a break before October, like last year when it seemed to rain every day in August.
I Swear...
The rehearsal dinner toast
(Last week’s column contained a puzzle. The column ended by saying that someone had expressed envy to have her name in the column. Go back to that column and look at the first letter of the first words in all the sentences.)
Last weekend I recited the following at a rehearsal dinner in Asheville:
River City Roundabout
A taste of ‘jolly ole England’
Bangers and mash, Knicker-bocker Glories, Cornish pasties and chocolate flakes may not be the typical items of a Chattanoogan’s palate. But they are part of the expansion of cultural dining experience that the English Rose Tearoom offers its guests.
What'll they dream up next?
Slap Chop
Just the other day I congratulated my 15-year-old cousin on obtaining her first job as a hostess at a restaurant for the summer. Doing so made me reminisce about my first job as a salad girl at a country family restaurant around the same age.
I walked to and from work through a small wooded area and over train tracks to get there each day, rain or shine. (The trek was almost as troublesome as when my parents walked to school uphill both ways, barefoot and in the snow.)
Scooters roll into spotlight in slow economic times
Hugh Schein, owner of Scenic City Scooters, says some may think of scooters as toys, but with speeds reaching 130 miles per hour, that assumption is blown out of the water. He says even die-hard motorcyclists are making the switch to scooters because they are lighter and more affordable to maintain.
Realtor reflects on her journey to real estate
Cross-country moves are generally set in motion by big events such as getting married, starting a new job or setting off in pursuit of a dream. But that’s not always the case. The catalyst for Gail Hunter’s most recent change of venue was an intoxicating blend of honeysuckle and songbirds on a Tennessee morning.
Experienced appraiser loves her work for better or worse
Bonnie Millard has spent her entire working career as an appraiser, and even though it is sometimes a sad business to be in, she says she loves what she does.
Millard grew up in Wisconsin, and when her father was transferred to Chattanooga she began work right away for a local appraiser while attending UTC. Thirty years later she is still in the appraisal business, this time as part of a husband and wife team: Chattanooga Appraisals and Inspections.
Real Estate Facts
From “less” to “yes”
The painful truth: Sellers who do not price their property competitively are the most likely targets of lowball offers. In soft markets, buyers are more prone to make low offers on listings seen to be priced too high. Listings that don’t sell usually require price reductions, which in turn often mean ultimately accepting an offer lower than you could have received by pricing aggressively from Day One.
Kay’s Cooking Corner
The fruits and vegetables that are pouring in now are just beautiful! Deep, red, juicy strawberries, plump blueberries and blackberries, fresh asparagus and sweet corn …um-m-m-m. And don’t forget those “real” tomatoes.
Now the cherries are coming in. I love those little yellow and red colored ones from Washington. But I love the juicy burgundy ones too.
The Critic's Corner
“The A-Team” is a headache sandwiched between opening and closing credits.
I’d read several negative reviews and seen that the movie tanked at the box office its opening weekend, but I’ve often found myself at odds with popular opinion when watching a film, so I went in with an open mind. I also thought it would be to my advantage that I’d never watched the ‘80s television show on which the movie was based, and it wouldn’t matter to me if the filmmakers had gotten a few details wrong.
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