Rockwood Business and Professional Women meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month.
Meetings are in Victorian Square, Rockwood.
The next meeting will be on Nov. 15. Meal cost is $10; reservations must be made by 10 a.m. the Monday of the week preceding the meeting date.
Call Geraldine Wallick at 354-0934 or email hiegelma@comcast.com for reservations or information about the organization, which recently celebrated its 95th anniversary.
Community Investment and Community Enhancement grant applications will be available on the Roane County United Way Roane website beginning Nov. 1. Visit www.unitedwayroane.org/non-profits/community-impact for applications.
Community Investment is the phase in strategic community initiatives to implement long-lasting change for all Roane County residents. The grant’s goal is to help community members achieve financial stability, enhanced levels of education and job qualification and healthier lifestyles.
Roane Medical Center’s Patient Drug Assistance Program is accepting new patients.
With or without prescription medication insurance, costs associated with monthly maintenance medication can be crippling, said Ryan Reddick, Roane Medical Center’s director of pharmacy.
Tennessee is in the midst of wildfire season, and residents wanting to burn leaves or debris are reminded that they need a burning permit.
“It’s important — and required from Oct. 15, 2016, to May 15, 2017 — that citizens call for a burning permit and follow outdoor burning safety recommendations,” State Forester Jere Jeter said.
Roane State Community College English professor DeAnna Stephens will introduce a free screening of “Psycho,” regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece of a psychological thriller, at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 in the Princess Theatre in Harriman.
The R-rated film, often described as “creepy,” is the tale of a woman on the lam who checks into the mysterious Bates Motel, apparently vacant except for proprietors Norman Bates and his mother.
There's an Oct. 31 application deadline to start Roane State Community College's paramedic program in the spring semester.
The three-semester program is normally not offered with a spring semester starting point. It has been added to meet a local, statewide and national shortage of paramedics, said David Blevins, program director.
The shortfall in advanced emergency medical technicians and paramedics is frequently mentioned during monthly regional meetings of EMS directors, he said.
Join Tennessee State Parks staff for an Introduction to Backpacking Workshop at Frozen Head State Park on Oct. 22.
Participants will be taught the essentials of backpacking and hiking on a 6-mile roundtrip hike through the mountains of East Tennessee.
Hikers will meet at 8 a.m. for a gear tutorial.
Participants should bring their own gear, such as backpack, sleeping bag and tent, but a limited supply is available on a first-come first-served basis.
The group will then head to Tub Springs campground on a roughly 3-mile hike.
Where oh where is pretty little Susie?
Where, oh where is pretty little Susie?
Where, oh where is pretty little Susie?
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.
Come on boys, let’s go find her,
Come on boys let’s go find her,
Come on boy let’s go find her
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.